Firstly, it looks like I'm back to ONE e-mail address!! Yippee! I made it over the firewall! :~) Secondly, I was reading the liner notes to an R&B CD I was listening to, and thought I'd share this bit of trivia, seeing that Joni sang this song on Shadows & Light... "Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers personified doo-wop, perhaps the most delightful genre of the hot new rock 'n' roll sound. Lymon was just 13 when the group cut "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" in 1955 after being discovered on a Harlem street corner by Richard Barrett of The Valentines, a doo-wop group. Barrett fixed them up with his own label boss, George Goldner of Gee. The song was originally a love poem written to Teenager Sherman Garnes' neighbor titled "Why Do Birds Sing So Gay". Goldner revised it, and Lymon sang lead because vocalist Herman Santiago was ill that day. Released right after Christmas, the record burned up the charts in 1956. Lymon's rise & fall was meteoric & tragic; in 1968, 11 years after his final top-40 hit, he died of a drug overdose in a friend's Harlem apartment." I remember the first time I heard Joni sing it, and thinking how appropriate a choice it was for her! Bob NP: The Drifters, "Such A Night"
