this is definitely the most popular boyband pop song. The album it was on (Millenium) is one of the top ten selling albums of all time...fantastically delicious guilty pleasure album....ONLY I DON'T FEEL GUILTY!!
The Teenagers' first single, 1956's "Why Do Fools Fall in Love", was also their biggest hit.
Listen to this kid's voice belt out this song. fast forward to the 2:20 mark of the vid.
After Lymon went solo in mid-1957, both his career and those of the Teenagers fell into decline. At age 25, he was found dead in his grandmother's bathroom from a heroin overdose. His life inspired the 1998 film, Why Do Fools Fall In Love?.
I don´t count them as a boyband, they´re a family band. A boyband is a band with members that don´t know each other before the formation of the band and where the members have been chosen by a producer/record company.
Out of curiosity though I wonder how many people out that that deride them would be more than willing to be in a big time boy band themselves if they had the talent for it considering the gigantic amounts of cash some of them have brought in for themselves. I bet a lot of them would pretend to like what they are doing.