The Tragic Life & Career of “Frankie Lymon” - The 50s Michael Jackson

The Tragic Life & Career of “Frankie Lymon” - The 50s Michael Jackson.
The Temptations' legacy, as seen through his eyes, is a statement of enduring impact, a story that continues to resonate with fans and artists alike. But it wasn’t easy for the group to become the legend that they became. and Otis even reminisce about the time where their audience was divided by a mere piece of rope.
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[@JukuduB]

Frankie Lymon: an example of the early beginnings of the exploitation of teen stars. 😥

[@bsbncandey]

This has been going on since Shirley Temple and Little Rascal days.

[@HakeemTheDream616]

Alot of child stars became addicts

[@TyeArtisik]

😔

[@Elwrt455]

Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers were the template Barry Gordy used when signing Michael Jackson & his brothers to Motown Records. I think Lymon was a phenomenal recording artist

[@ce-p3473]

Addicted at 13. His story is so emotional 🥺

[@Coverslovers14]

He wasn't addicted at 13. Frankie himself said he didn't start drugs until 14 and became an addicted at 15. Read his interview with Ebony Magazine

[@nellienell924]

They should make a biopic about him ! Not just focused on his 3 wives but him !

[@kashmeremajesty2163]

I think he deserve another biopic as well

[@paulmalone6071]

The movie about him was pretty good but he was horribly miscast by a way too old larenz tate

[@kashmeremajesty2163]

@@paulmalone6071 I apologize but I have to disagree. I feel like although Larenz Tate is nor a singer...... I feel like Larenz Tate is like a male Kyla Pratt when it comes to face card never declining and still looking as amazing as he did in his younger years. He fit the role pretty well to me...... it just wouldn't have made sense to get someone the exact age as Frankie Lymon especially with certain scenes during the time the movie was being filmed. That man was very young doing some heavy stuff and messing around with grown ass women

[@kokoa.1365]

@@paulmalone6071you think? i thought he was perfect, just not dark enough. but still good

[@ceeceetracey9839]

@@paulmalone6071 Yes. Larenz Tate is a great actor but he's no Frankie Lymon.

[@californiagirl1579]

Long Live Frankie Lymon❤👑🙏🏽🕊 he definitely was a legend in that Era

[@moneyjunkiemusik8946]

Undeniable talent, legendary

[@markwoods4439]

The narrator sounds like she’s repeating herself over and over again!!

[@TonyBeBlessed]

She is

[@cressapellom4205]

I thought I was the only one who thought this. 😂

[@marlonmj5]

Omg yes, annoying, it’s on purpose to make the video longer than it needs to be

[@TonyBeBlessed]

@@marlonmj5 I wish they knew that it makes it unwatchable

[@HakeemTheDream616]

She did lol

[@josephedric4081]

The narrator is saying the same thing over and over, as if just to make the video longer.

[@pogue972]

I just posted this 😂 I couldn't even finish the video. Horrible ChatGPT written script

[@BigRigsAdventures]

Frankie Lyman was Frankie Lyman you never hear anybody say Michael Jackson the Frankie Lyman of the 70s they were their own thing and we’re both great

[@Coverslovers14]

Lymon*

[@bunnysb2587]

I like the way he sings to bad his life was cut short

[@HakeemTheDream616]

If you look at a young Michael from the Jackson 5, and the young Frankie they are very much alike I haven't noticed that until now its quit chilling considering how much different their careers became MJ blossomed into The Goat, and Lymon had his life, and career tragically cut short.

[@moneyjunkiemusik8946]

Long live frankie man 🕊 🎶 He broke racial barriers 🎯 song those tracks right from his soul. Respect & love always -Mak junior

[@rosemarysanchez8136]

He know that he was sad, so he called him home

[@mrcompensation365]

Sad story but great video!!!! Rest In Power ☀️🫡

[@auboy77]

No , that be --Michael Jackson, -the 60’s / 70’s Frankie Lymon.

[@ninolortkipanidze1060]

MJ has never touched any narcotics, he was addicted to the painkillers... So in the way of addiction, generally there's some similarity, but Mike's addiction had nothing to do with getting high to cope with pressure as what he was coping with was the physical pain he was in, constantly... P.S. I saw James Brown's moves while performing were first brought to light by this very talented man when MJ was the one who sculptured the standards for the artists...

[@andrethompson2034]

Pain killers are narcotics 😐

[@Triigga86]

He had to take pain killers due to 3rd degree burns

[@andrethompson2034]

@chadtodd8961 yes and then he got hooked on them and took them because he liked them.

[@larhondaburchett3271]

Umm……..painkillers are a narcotics.

[@ST-nz4bf]

@@andrethompson2034💯 MJ abused the medication to cope with the pressure of his job ! Facts !!!

[@SembeneNathanyahu]

He is one of the five greatest natural tenors---along with Dee Clark, the brother in the group Force M.D.s, Michael Jackson, Frankie Lymon, Johnny Wilder and Jackie Wilson---of all time! He is a character in my upcoming bestseller "Whisper's Getting Louder".Long live the immortal Frankie Lymon! @@@*** Sembene Nathanyahu, author of the future bestseller "Whisper's Getting Louder", in Chicago. ***@@@

[@c.arawak1017]

11:54 one of my ai generated images used in the video, appreciate it🙏🏾

[@marlonmj5]

The hand melting on the car x)

[@c.arawak1017]

​​​@@marlonmj5 That's the thing with AI images, they always have to deform😂

[@monica62888]

Wow

[@sylvias4899]

This video repeats the same thing over and over and over. The same images over and over and over.

[@workinprogress_q]

I thought the same thing. Felt like a book report that had a word count minimum.

[@theresawebb1968]

Frankie lemon didn't have a normal life so sad he should've stayed with God. But he had talent it was should've been used for the lord.

[@mariamtorou445]

great video, one thing I will say though is that i feel like you repeat yourself a lot.

[@grazef6]

the script used for narrating this video is a non stop repeat of same thing for over 10 minutes... got tiring at a point

[@xtinax2591]

Why don’t they ever play his music throughout his whole thing? They just talk and talk about his unique voice but I want to hear what they’re talking about.

[@RaeBattleRapsMood]

Copywriting

[@NovejSpeed3]

^^^This

[@emotionlessjazz7277]

I loveeeeeee Frankie

[@lordcron]

Okay so I'm gonna stop you right there... To say he was the 50's Mike is a HUGE LEAP! No he wasn't!

[@dehjhunaeday5743]

I agree

[@jayman3915]

Yes he was. Child star.

[@jayman3915]

Even tho it was for a short time period. Barry Gordon said Micheal reminded him of Frankie.

[@jayman3915]

They are talking about talent wise not career….Frankie influenced damn near everyone who became a singer in the 60’s such as the early Motown, George Clinton , Frankie Beverly, Ronnie Spector, etc

[@Caribbeana]

He sing a song called the abc of love? He spin & do splits in his performances? He was in a group of 5 whilst being the lead singer? Yep, the MJ of the 50s MJ is %1000 better of course.

[@pogue972]

I haven't heard the same phrases, ideas and sentences repeated over and over in a video in my life. Did ChatGPT write this script to pad it out past 10 minutes? Jiminy Christmas I couldn't even stand to watch to the end after hearing his life was a "cautionary tale about a black adolescent growing up in the 1950s" for the 32nd time... 🤦

[@charlessax4385]

I've only seen Frankie Lyman and the teenagers in a 1950s movie. He had so much charisma as a performer he made M jackson look like Michael Bolton.

[@lisawhite8743]

WTF!

[@charlessax4385]

Rock rock rock. A Tuesday weld flick

[@HakeemTheDream616]

11 year old MJ, and 13 year old Frankie were quit equal in those terms MJ became way better, and reached bigger heights though who knows what Frankie could've become if he hadn't got his disease. Frankie paved the way, but MJ blazed a trail.

[@Jayyreasons_]

Micheal Jackson got so much influence from Him and James Brown

[@prettyperfectpagne6226]

Very similar childhoods they (mj and Frankie) never got to be children

[@1wayde]

Ma’am, you’re saying the same thing over and over. Get to the good parts man

[@luhshorty15]

I don't care what anyone says Frankie Lymon was the original Michael Jackson

[@quashonahardesty6538]

I wonder if the witch thats telling this story realised she repeated the same thing over and over and over like a scratched skipping record.

[@thekillergoonie]

Frankie lymon is NOT mj of the 50s mj was the frankie lymon of his era

[@FrankieIymon]

J has never touched any narcotics, he was addicted to the painkillers... So in the way of addiction, generally there's some similarity, but Mike's addiction had nothing to do with getting high to cope with pressure as what he was coping with was the physical pain he was in, constantly... P.S. I saw James Brown's moves while performing were first brought to light by this very talented man when MJ was the one who sculptured the standards for the artists

[@RileyPhillips-g8q]

He was a child rapist.

[@misanthropic-vet]

Terribly boring video. Terrible narrator, terrible editing. Just terrible

[@45vinyljunkie]

That's actress Valerie Harper ("Rhoda Morgenstern") in the lower right at 5:11.

[@ZachLol-o3f]

What where the movies called where you got the scenes from?

[@Luke-kg7vu]

The ones with Larenz Tate are from “Why Do Fools Fall in Love.” I’m not sure where the one with him in the bathtub is from.

[@laquettaowens6120]

This was so sad they exploited him so bad he was young and to hear hiw he started drugs by a older woman seducing him and giving him drugs at 12 smh

[@DeCurtaRican]

Gary Coleman.

[@babyzorilla]

With pipes

[@freddy8479]

Based on THEIR HEIGHT AND SIMILAR FACIAL/PHYSICAL RESEMBLANCES..... Is it SLIGHTLY POSSIBLE that Gary Coleman could have been Frankie's "LONG LOST SON?"🤔 REMEMBER, GARY WAS ADOPTED BY THE COLEMANS.🤔 HE WAS BORN TWO WEEKS BEFORE FRANKIE DIED.🤔

[@Bibbs65]

Yep!

[@LilMike-zm8ne]

Whoaaa that’s wild what if he was Gary’s real dad?

[@freddy8479]

@@LilMike-zm8ne IKR???? It's unfortunate that Gary didn't communicate with Lewis Lymon and do DNA testing to find out.

[@greeneyesp2039]

Repeat repeat..... To make video longer ... This is an insult to the man the video about, .. your exploiting us with repetitive ROBOT DELIVERY😮

[@kungfu4003]

They talk about Sam Cooke's death being suspicious. No information how. Frankie's death was suspicious. Could be murdered. Who is talking about this though.

[@coym5452]

So cute we love my brother ❤

[@shalandrabroadnax9124]

I THINK FRANKIE , WOULD HAVE DONE A DAMN GOOD JOB , IN SINGING , " ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK TONIGHT " , AND YA KNOW , THAT CLASSIC GEM , MEGA HIT , WAS WROTE BY , A BLACK MAN , I WANNA THINK IT'S THAT BLACK MAN , WITH THE LAST NAME , " BLACKWELL " , CHILLLEEEE , IM'MA LOOK IT UP👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@DeCurtaRican]

What’s with the all-caps text? Do you know that’s the online equivalent of yelling at everyone?

[@shalandrabroadnax9124]

@@DeCurtaRican so/SO

[@shalandrabroadnax9124]

AND WHAT'S YO' MALFUNCTION ????@@DeCurtaRican

[@leahcahoon6987]

Why didn’t you include a small example of the songs? This isn’t as thorough as it should be.

[@gjrocknthedreamteam3065]

Those adult women were just as disgusting as the those who stole his money. That child never stood a chance with all those vipers and perves in the music industry. 😒

[@jamesrodgers7490]

I have a question where was his parents and family

[@Luke-kg7vu]

His father was abusive and Frankie pretty much became the man of the house at the age of 10

[@paulmalone6071]

Didn't like this documentary. It's very repetitive. Making the same points over and over again. Glazed over his heroin addiction as well. This probably should have been at least 5 minutes shorter

[@trentonbates3114]

I feel like the narrator is repeating herself alot of the same points in the video, but with different words

[@astargmoneynevaendz999]

Why this man can't be his own man. we gotta compair to someone else

[@michaeljohnsonsr.8034]

He got my bday

[@MrCjones24]

6:21 that's Frankie's little brother Lewis lymon

[@charlessax4385]

Rock rock rock. A Tuesday weld flick

[@soulheaven1964]

I think Frankie was murdered

[@frankielymon-]

Same I believe that them saying he was going to celebrate with drugs was a cover up for what actually happened. Maybe Frankie owed money to the drug dealers while he was picked up by the police to be forced into the army. So when he went away they probably forgot. But once he started to get back on his feet and seen him doing tv shows and stuff I feel he was pressured by them for not giving them any money and made him do it. I also seen comments of people who was from there say the dealers was bragging that the drugs they gave Frankie killed him.

[@soulheaven1964]

@@frankielymon- see I think it was his manager

[@tinotica]

More like the 1950s Tevin Campbell

[@tyroneaugustine229]

Why Frankie Lymon looks like Natalie Cole????🤔😉🤔🤔😉

[@nikipeters9248]

I'm sad he had a short life and was robbed of so much

[@BasedNana65]

Why does this keep repeating itself? Couldn't get through it, horrible. Chat gpt and an ai voice.

[@PrettyboyAshtun]

it’s a shame what happened to him

[@josielopez5344]

This is about Frankie not MJ if Frankie had real friends they could've helped him with addiction poor guy He was Magic but envied ,darn people were was everyone when hd needed them.😢😢

[@rondodson5736]

I have no sympathy for someone who came from such horrible beginnings, had it all and threw it away.

[@ListeningisaGiftNy]

Wow, way to over- narrate! Who ever put together is beyond maniacal, wow.

[@jamesvivar8160]

Jesus Christ, how many times are you gonna repeat the same thing worded a little different

[@rick16323]

These "documentaries" say the same thing repeatedly.

[@kevincharbonneau5953]

A twisted tale of youth exploitation. And it hasn't stopped.

[@yyygggggg10]

Yeah right,I love Michael to but you watch that Bad Tour,he was obviously on something...I'm assuming Vicodin.That energy isn't normal.

[@larry1824]

Bigamy drugs and a contract that paid him zilch. Buried in Bronx

[@TheSugarissweet77]

They also kept them kids high and So they keep all the money😢🎉😮

[@Capybaraism]

He is no MJ WTF

[@HakeemTheDream616]

Young MJ at 11-13, and Young Frankie at 13 are actually very similar if watch how they move, and listen to their voices which is both compelling, and chilling to me. MJ was able to develop into his own greatness though Frankie never had that chance, but he grew up in much different times.

[@Whites0x4life]

He was very talented, but Frankie actually was a child hood delinquent, bizarre.

[@jamesanagnos6123]

this kid was a true phenomenon what talent wow

[@kamalaswallows2024]

#DrugsSuck🚫💊💉

[@eatallnowsavenone4later342]

Saying the same thing over and over again 🙄

[@we-are-all-suckers]

O.m.g., the most irritating narrative ever! Repetitive conclusions and the only thing missing was “don’t forget to vote for Frankie”. One question, next time could you add a little drama?