Frankie Avalon

Over the course of a career that lasted in excess of fifty years, Frankie Avalon successfully navigated the treacherous path that takes one from teen idol to popular adult performer; his career kicked off in earnest in the fifties, with a slew of successful chart singles including ‘Just Ask Your Heart’, ‘A Boy Without a Girl’ and ‘I’ll Wait for You’ among them. Whilst he never enjoyed any major success outside of his native U.S., he was a huge star over there, moving into movies and television as his career progressed and remaining a popular performer for years to come.
He hasn’t released an album of any description since 1962, but he continued to tour with his live band throughout the sixties, before his film career really took off in earnest. Later, he’d go onto have his legacy demonstrated by being name checked by present day musical acts as diverse and popular as Wu-Tang Clan and System of a Down, and continued to make cameo appearances in movies throughout the nineties; he’s now presumably retired, with no recent activity to speak of for a while now, but there’s no question that his influence on generations that followed - including the present one - remains steadfast.