Tuesday Toon #12

Frankie Lymon (front left)
and The Teenagers.

The Teenagers were an American integrated doo wop group. The original lineup of the Teenagers, included three African American members, Frankie Lymon, Jimmy Merchant and Sherman Garnes, and two Puerto Rican members, Herman Santiago and Joe Negroni. Most noted for being one of rock music's earliest successes, presented to international audiences by DJ Alan Freed. The group, which made its most popular recordings with 13-year-old Frankie Lymon as lead singer, is also noted for being rock's first all-teenaged act. The Teenagers had their origins in The Earth Angels, a group founded at Edward W. Stitt Junior High School in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan, NYC by second tenor Jimmy Merchant and bass Sherman Garnes. Eventually, Garnes and Merchant had added lead singer Herman Santiago and baritone Joe Negroni to their lineup and evolved into the Coupe De Villes.   

(Film/Video/Music: Copyright Control)

In 1955, the very young Frankie Lymon joined, and the group changed their name first, to the Ermines and later The Premiers.The same year Lymon joined the group, he helped Santiago and Merchant rewrite a song they'd composed to create, "Why Do Fools Fall In Love". The song got the Teenagers an audition with George Goldner's Gee Records, but Santiago was too sick to sing lead on the day of the audition. Lymon sung the lead on "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" instead, and the group was signed to Gee as The Teenagers, with Lymon as lead singer. "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" was their first and biggest hit and would later feature in the film "American Graffiti". The group, known for both their harmony and choreography, also had hits with "I'm Not a Juvenile Delinquent" and "The ABCs of Love". By 1957, the group was being billed as "Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers". 
Frankie Lymon died aged just 25 on February 27, 1968. Sherman Garnes died of a heart attack in 1977, while Joe Negroni a year later, died due to a cerebral hemorrhage. 
Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993 and into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2000.  (Wikipedia)
A point of trivia: In the recorded lyric, Lymon sings: "It's easy to be good/ it's hard to be bad/stay out of trouble/and you'll be glad" As it patently isn't all that easy to be good, especially as a young teenager, the lyric as sung doesn't make too much sense. 
So I recon it might have been written like this:
It's hard to be good,
It's easy to be bad
Stay out of trouble
And you'll be glad..
Which makes more sense. My theory? As the master had been cut, it would have made no economic sense to re-record it, so the record was pressed just the way it was recorded.