"Teenager in Love" - Dion & the Belmonts - (bass tab & cover) FRANKS BASS COVERS

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Released MAR 1958 from the Album: Presenting Dion and the Belmonts
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The Band
All of its members were from the Bronx, New York City. In 1957, Dion DiMucci joined the vocal group the Belmonts. The established trio of Angelo D'Aleo, Carlo Mastrangelo and Fred Milano formed a quartet with DiMucci.

The name the Belmonts was derived from two of the four singers having lived on Belmont Avenue in the Bronx; the other two lived near Belmont Avenue.

On February 2, 1959, after playing the Surf Ballroom, Buddy Holly arranged to charter a plane that could only take Holly and two of the other headliners.

Dion decided he could not afford the $36 cost to fly to the next venue and he told Holly no and gave his plane seat to Ritchie Valens who was sick with the flu and present in the dressing room where they all met with Holly to toss the coins.

According to Dion, $36 was the price his parents paid for monthly rent. Shortly after midnight, on February 3, 1959, the plane crashed near Clear Lake, Iowa.

Holly, Valens, The Big Bopper, and the pilot Roger Peterson were all killed.

THE SONG
written by Doc Pomus and partner Mort Shuman originally intended for the doo-wop singing group The Mystics. Pomus and Shuman then quickly wrote another song, "Hushabye" for the Mystics.

in 1959, three different versions of the song charted simultaneously in the UK

On June 1st 1959, Dion and the Belmonts performed "A Teenager In Love" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...

Two months earlier on April 14th, 1959 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eventually it peaked at #5 and spent 15 weeks on the Top 100...