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Frankie Lymon: Why Do Fools Fall In Love?

Bill Millar, Pye Records, 1972

Black vocal groups once sang for enjoyment on street-corners throughout ghettos in each of the big American cities. Late into the night they harmonised together, sublimating a frustration which exploded by day.

Total word count of piece: 1604

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