RIP Bobby Rydell

[Jake from State Farm]

Rydell High in Grease was named after him

https://variety.com/2022/music/obit...pop-idol-bye-bye-birdie-1960s-1235225834/amp/

He also had the English language hit on Volare

 

[maumann]

RIP, Wild One.



Brylcreme users everywhere will need an extra little dab to do 'em tonight.

 

[tapintoamerica]

I love the fact that all these guys from this era adopted stage names.
Robert Louis Ridarelli, Fabiano Anthony Forte and Francis Thomas Avallone had quite the following.

 

[micropolitan guy]

You would almost think there was prejudice against Italian-Americans in the 1950s.

Don't forget Walden Robert Cassotto, AKA Bobby Darin, the best of them all.

 

[Songbird]

"Where the chicks are chicks and the cats are cool" was some great pronouning back when.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I love the fact that all these guys from this era adopted stage names.
Robert Louis Ridarelli, Fabiano Anthony Forte and Francis Thomas Avallone had quite the following.

Wait a minute. Are you saying the “Chantilly Lace” singer’s name isn’t really the Big Bopper?

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Another Philly legend gone. RIP.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

You would almost think there was prejudice against Italian-Americans in the 1950s.

Don't forget Walden Robert Cassotto, AKA Bobby Darin, the best of them all.

Darin always knew he would die young but he was the closest thing we had to Sammy Davis Jr. He could do anything

 

[Jake from State Farm]

This was Rydell’s last big hit, from 1964

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Rydell with a 21-year old Ann-Margret in Bye Bye Birdie