Fabian (50's)

Genres:	Pop / Rock
Decades Active:	1950s, 1960s, 1990s
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Biography

Fabiano Forte Bonaparte, 6 February 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Fabian, almost despite himself, was among the more endurable products of the late 50s when the North American charts were infested with a turnover of vapid boys-next-door - all hair cream, doe eyes and coy half-smiles - groomed for fleeting stardom. Fabian was "discovered" by two local talent scouts, Peter De Angelis and Bob Marucci, in Frankie Avalon's Teen And Twenty youth club in 1957. Enthralled by the youth's good looks, the pair shortened his name and contracted him to their own label Chancellor Records where a huge budget was allocated to project him as a tamed Elvis Presley. Accompanied by the Four Dates, Fabian's first two singles - "I'm In Love" and "Lilly Lou' - were only regional hits, but a string of television performances on Dick Clark's nationally-broadcast American Bandstand plus a coast-to-coast tour had the desired effect on female teenagers, and Fabian found himself...

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