Chords for The Golden Boys: Fabian, Frankie Avalon and Bobby Rydell

_ _ Frankie Avalon hit it big with songs like Venus and Bobby Socks to Stockings and starring roles in many films
He's now celebrating his 24th year as [C] one of this country's leading entertainers
And did you swoon when you heard Fabian sing turn me [G] loose or tiger?
Fabian has managed to make 30 films over [E] the years while still rocking and rolling to an audience of loyal fans all over the world
Who were you [Eb] dancing with when [E] Bobby Rydell crooned the country with [G] volare?
Wild thing and kissin time just to name a few
Bobby was as lovable and bye-bye birdie as he is on television [A] and in the many personal appearances he [Am] makes around the world _ _ _
_ _ _ Welcome for Bobby Rydell
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Seen this man in about 16 years.
I know crazy used to work together on telethons the first time I saw him
I went crazy.
How are you?
Are you having a good time doing this terrific?
Absolutely?
How did it start?
How did it come that somebody put you all together the man responsible is right back there? _ _ _
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_ I want one of those sweatshirts.
It has your three pictures on it.
Huh?
Telling me to take off my glass
I take off my glasses.
I can't see _
_ You've had a good time since you've been in town the North.
Yeah seen a lot.
Oh, yeah, boy.
We've had a great time
Yeah, it's an interesting thing having grown up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey across the river from Philadelphia
Maybe maybe I got it first
I was one of those kids that got it first
But you've said Frank has seemed like every kid in South Philly wanted to be or was destined to be a singer
_ Absolutely is from the neighborhood.
I mean we lived
Two three blocks from each other and chubby checkers and going back to marry a Lanz and so forth
I mean a lot of people come out of our neighborhood you
Was a true baby and you were sitting in front of stuff somewhere 14 years old and somebody said you've got the looks let's go
That's about it
How did that really happen in those days no, it's a very long story, but in essence I was on my front
_ Porch step and my [Em] father was very ill
You know in an ambulance [F] a fellow stopped by see what was going [Em] on.
She had a good friend to live next door
[N] That's how we met.
It's a very long story.
I won't bore you with yeah, but it was good
It was it wasn't good to be so popular so young _
Did it did it did you grow up faster to change you in any way that?
Might have even been negative because you got so much
So I mean, I think the three of [Gb] us were handled very very well.
We had [G] very good first early _ _ _ _ _ _ _
the neighborhood
_ three of [Gb] us being Italian very
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_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ Jimmy [Gb] Darren you read the Kalani.
Yeah, Jimmy her Kalani
But it was that was kind of the impetus for you wasn't it?
Yeah, he was my Idol _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Kalani yeah when I read the Daily News in Philadelphia that that James Ercolani
Was going out to Hollywood.
He can do it.
[G] So how did you do it?
I just kept on going _ _
_ Same ticket no I started playing trumpet and
[E] from there went into a band called Rocco and the Saints and then from there went into
Records as a singer and then from there went into motion pictures
_ You're a great trumpet player and Bobby you're a great dumber drummer aren't [A] you that's basically the same story and [E] you
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_ _ _ [Abm] We have a clip from a movie that Frank did we have a speech blanket bingo
I mean [N] that was a good you don't like that _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Think that year was [Eb]
1963 or 1964 when I made that picture and it's [G] amazing how I lost
I mean I was nominated for the Academy Award for that _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Fun to work with [C] Annette.
Oh, yeah.
[E] Yeah, she's still a friend.
We're gonna do another one.
Are you yeah?
We're gonna do at the end of this year and it'll be out in 1987
_ And it's called a new [Eb] wave and _
[D] I played married now 20 years.
[Db] We have a couple of kids
We _ _ get back to [N] the beach again you worked with Bing Crosby 1960 didn't you _ _
_ _ Wake up the North End is you wake up from the North End
_ _ No, I had the honor of working with him in a film called high time Blake Edwards director
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Have you've done a lot of films look at Frank looking at you
_ _ _ _ _ There we go look is that on the set of high times [Gb] with you of high time, you know, yeah, that's being and
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_ _ _ _ Right, [A] didn't you do that?
Yeah, we did we did one called ride the wild sir
And then I think in between no right before that I did the North to Alaska thing in that period with John Wayne
Yeah, then a couple with [Bb] Jimmy Stewart.
Do you like [E] acting?
Well, very much.
Yeah.
Why don't we see [Eb] more of you?
Oh, what we're doing.
I'll be doing a movie the week
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That isn't you I have no idea _ _ _
_ _ _ And Bobby I did bye-bye birdie in high school, so I loved watching you [A] everybody did it
Yeah, you were Hugo.
I was you go Peabody.
You were so cute all of my film
_ Did one that was it but it was a great motion picture.
Oh, [Em] it was and [Eb] Margaret
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No, not too shabby at all.
You're all married
And I want you to know something about Frank Avalon.
You won't believe it is young age.
He has eight children
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[F] _ _ _ What I read that Frank told somebody once is that his wife Kay has never had a headache _ _
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And how many children do you have how _ _ many _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ From a previous marriage I have two children
Yeah, my son is 16 and my daughter is 14.
What do the kids think about you being an idol a teenage idol?
Do you ever talk about it?
No, you know people think you may hear all the mothers of their friends in school
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[G] _ two children my son Robert is 16 [Ab] and my daughter Jennifer will be 12 the 20th of this month
And they knew that dad was a singer he goes out and he works nightclubs
And that's how we pay the bills when we previewed the show for the very first [G] time in Philadelphia the Valley Forge Music Fair [Gbm] Are solid Golden boys
_ _ _ _ So much media [G] there and entertainment tonight evening magazine my [Gb] son was really taken back.
Well.
I see he didn't realize no
He didn't I think he realized his hey
These guys really are important
You know I'm thinking you were all teenagers when you first amazing my two little girls cuz you know my kids range from 22 down to [F] 12
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_ _ _ _ _ Love him really they just think that he's a Fox
_ I _ _ _ _ can't say I believe
If _ I told you Fabian what I used to do to you guys in the fan magazines when I was 14 years old
Practice kissing on some of your pictures
_ How many of you did it how many of you wished and dreamed when you were 14 that even the guy _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Did you know your teenagers when you begin did you know how important you were to the women of America the young women of America
Did you even have a sense of it?
Well, I think we knew [F] that you know when we would go on stage
You [D] know there [Eb] was there was a bedlam and screaming and so forth and we didn't have time to really appreciate any of that
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_ _ _ I wonder _ _ how you keep your ego _ _ _ _