FRANKIE AVALON

LIFE/CAREER

• Avalon was born on September 18, 1940, in Philidelphia
• His occupation is being an actor,singer,playwright, t former teen idol.
• Avalon was on U.S. Television playing his trumpet by the time he was age 11.
• Avalon broke the show business as a child prodigy trumpet player earning the appearance on the Jackson Gleason Show
• He made records for RCA Victor records

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• Hes considered the first manufactured teen idol before Fabian and Bobby Rydell

SONGS/RECORDS

• Avalon had 31 top charted on the U.S. billboard singles from 2958 to 1962
• Just asked your heart was charted #7 on U.S. Billboard
• Bobby Sox to Socking's was charted #8
• Most of Avalon's hits were written by Bib Marcucci, head of chancellor records

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• Bobby Sox to Socking's was charted U.S. #8

FILMS

• Avalon starred in Beach Party comedy films during the mid-1960s
• Romantic coupling between Frankie and Annette in summer films such as Beach Party and Beach blanket Bingo
• Those two movies became iconic figures in American films during that era.
• In 1992, Funicello announced that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.She died of complications from the disease on April 8, 2013
• She played in Beach Party with Frankie.

MOVIE SCENE

• Beach blanket bingo movie scene
• www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk3ZN3dSeDk

MARRAIGE/KIDS

• Kay and Frankie met at a mutual friend's home while Frankie was playing cards.
• He told his friends that day that she was the girl he was going to marry.
• Kay and Frankie announced their engagement in Las Vegas in December 1962
• Frankie and Kay got married on January 19, 1963 at St. Charles catholic church in North Hollywood, Cal.
• The matron of homer was Kay's sister Gretchen Wayne, and the best man was Avalon's manager Robert Marcucci

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• They spent their honeymoon in Acapulco Mexico
• Were they had 8 children together
• His sons were: Frankie Avalon Jr., Nicolas A, and Joseph A.
• His daughters were: Carla Avalon, Dina A., Kathryn A., Laura A.,
• Frankie Avalon Jr. Starred in the movie, The Karate Kid in 1984.

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