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Frankie "Hollywood" Crocker (December 18, 1937 – October 21, 2000) was an American disc jockey, VH-1 VJ, TV host and actor. Crocker helped grow WBLS , the urban adult contemporary and black music radio station, into the #1 station in New York City in the late 1970s.
Frankie Lymon. Franklin Joseph Lymon (September 30, 1942 [5] [6] – February 27, 1968 [7]) was an American rock and roll / rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, best known as the boy soprano lead singer of the New York City -based early rock and roll doo-wop group The Teenagers. The group was composed of five boys, all in their early to mid ...
The Teenagers were an American music group, most noted for being one of rock music's earliest successes, presented to international audiences by DJ Alan Freed. [2] The group, which made its most popular recordings with young Frankie Lymon as lead singer, is also noted for being rock's first all-teenaged act. [2]
Francis Warren Nicholls Jr. (January 18, 1955 [1] [2] – March 31, 2014), known professionally as Frankie Knuckles, was an American DJ, record producer, and remixer. [3] He played an important role in developing and popularizing house music, a genre of music that began in Chicago during the early 1980s and subsequently spread worldwide.
—Sinatra's daughter Nancy on the importance of his mother Dolly in his life and character. Francis Albert Sinatra [a] was born on December 12, 1915, in a tenement at 415 Monroe Street in Hoboken, New Jersey, [b] the only child of Italian immigrants Natalina "Dolly" Garaventa and Antonino Martino "Marty" Sinatra, who boxed under the name Marty O'Brien. [c] Sinatra weighed 13.5 pounds (6.1 kg ...
United States. Coordinates. 47°36′47″N 122°19′08″W / . 47.6130°N 122.3189°W. / 47.6130; -122.3189. Website. frankieandjos .com. Frankie & Jo's is a small chain of vegan ice cream shops based in Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington. [1] [2] The business operates three shops in Seattle, and expanded to Larkspur, California ...
Frankie Muniz. Francisco Muniz IV ( / ˈmjuːnɪz /; [1] born December 5, 1985) is an American actor. He played the title character in the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle (2000–2006), for which he earned an Emmy Award nomination and two Golden Globe Award nominations.
Ten-codes, officially known as ten signals, are brevity codes used to represent common phrases in voice communication, particularly by law enforcement and in citizens band (CB) radio transmissions. The police version of ten-codes is officially known as the APCO Project 14 Aural Brevity Code. [1]
The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto is a novel by American author and journalist Mitch Albom. Released on November 10, 2015, publisher HarperCollins printed 700,000 hardcover initial copies. [1] The novel's protagonist, a guitarist, is introduced at his own funeral. [2] [3] Narrated by Music, the novel alternates between Frankie's life and ...
Lino was born in a house on West Eight Street in Gravesend, Brooklyn, New York City. The marriage of his mobster father Robert A. Lino, Sr. and his mother was arranged by Genovese crime family patriarch and founder Vito Genovese during the 1930s. Frank attended Brooklyn's Lafayette High School but dropped out in tenth grade.