The next month, according to Zola, she and Frankie drove to Tijuana and got married in a small chapel. Frankie marrying a schoolteacher? She and Frankie were riding a tour bus together in 1956, doing 81 one-nighters with a rock 'n' roll cavalcade that included Chuck Berry, the Coasters, the Penguins and Bo Diddley, as well as the Platters and the Teenagers. Span wrote that back in Los Angeles, the club where Zola was performing tossed a celebration with a cake and champagne. ELIZABETH OGLE WATERS OBITUARY. , A thief turns to prostitution to help Lymon fund his drug addiction. Chuck Rubin. It was also Rubin who located Emira, put her in touch with an attorney, helped line up witnesses and documentation. Rubin's 200 or so clients, from the Del Vikings to the Coasters, constitute an honor roll of early rock 'n' roll. According to the obituary published Sunday in The Augusta Chronicle, funeral arrangements will be announced by W.H. Artists Rights helped secure a financial settlement for Richard Berry, composer of "Louie, Louie" just before the song was used in a wine cooler ad. They wanted to impress their friends in school by being on the radio. Executive producers Gregory Nava, Mark Allan, Harold Bronson. She's going to call it "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?". Borstein also says that Lymon, who was always pestering Levy for money, sold Levy the copyright to all his songs and that Levy has a signed document to that effect. I know its been good for me.. Set decorator Jackie Carr. These scans come from my rather large magazine collection. The beautiful granite tombstone that Ronnie ordered weighed over 1,000 pounds. 1/28/23, noon until 2pm service at Small's Mortuary. Emira Eagle Lymon Bryant, the legally declared widow of '50s teenage rock star Frankie Lymon, died Saturday at AU Medical Center. Although most of Rubin's cases don't wind up in court, the allegations Emira made are not unusual. 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Also a plus is the entertainment value of the films infectious classic rock soundtrack, which (besides the Teenagers hits sung by Lymon) includes songs like The Great Pretender, Try a Little Tenderness and Heat Wave., Hampering this on the negative side, besides the films awkwardness with its dark moments, is an inability to provide more than the most superficial look at anything. He didn't mind. "A lot of people say I knew him so long I became like him.". Emiras Frankie Lymon is not this drunken bum, Pomeroy said. The female lawyer stated that the battle began shortly after Emira asked the Georgia court to declare her as the administrator of Lemmons Estate. Last in line is Emira Eagle (Lela Rochon), a demure, well-bred Southern educator. Zola and Elizabeth declined, but said they were willing to accept an equal, three-way split. Emira's attorneys argue that Elizabeth and Frankie separated in mid-1965 and never lived together as man and wife thereafter, invalidating her claim to a common-law marriage. She testified that she and Frankie had started living together shortly after they met. In lieu of sentencing, Frankie was allowed to undergo another rehab programAfter completing another rehab program and was inducted into the Army in December 1966. Her attorneys advised her that it might look bad for her in court if she allowed an outside organization to place a headstone on Frankies grave. "Frankie was that kind of person, your honor," she said. Im sure it probably would bring back some good memories, she said of the show that was being staged at the Imperial. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Each woman suspected he was sleeping with the other, and both were apparently correct. According to Paula Span, people sometimes compared Frankie with the young Michael Jackson, who also knew how to combine innocence and knowingness. Elizabeth Waters may be entitled to an estate worth $750,000 in accumulated royalties from Lymon 1956 hit and it's more modern iterations, according to Surrogate Court Judge Marie Lambert's ruling. They had been married for 4.1 years. Back in New Jersey, Ronnie Italiano and the UGHA had adhered to Emiras aforementioned wishes and held off on moving forward with their project to acquire and place a memorial tombstone on Frankie Lymons grave until her lawsuit was settled. "He had been busted in California again for drugs. Lymon's work had largely been reduced to lip-syncing at record hops; he said Zola could help get him some gigs in Los Angeles. His was a wasted life, and he was so talented., Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. And it was not uncommon for someone -- an agent, producer or record label head -- to name himself cowriter of a group's songs, entitling him to half the author's publishing royalties. And if Zola wins she's also decided to record an album of Frankie's hits -- "I Want You to Be My Girl," "I Promise to Remember," all the big ones. According to Paula Span, her sisters boyfriend introduced them, and soon after, Emira was cooking meals for Frankie and they were shopping for wedding rings. She did not know the druggie described in this trial. His attorney called the charges complete speculation claimed and that there was absolutely no proof of Levy's guilt. According to Bill Olb, the idea was suggested to Ronnie by Pearl McKinnon, who had recently left the reunited Teenagers. He decided to head to California in hopes that his old friend Zola Taylor could help him get some singing gigs in Los Angeles. Then he called Elizabeth and urged her to join him. The record company executive has other problems: He was sentenced last week to 10 years in prison for his conspiracy conviction arising from an FBI investigation of racketeering in the recording industry. Back in 1956, the hit song had first been credited to Frankie Lymon, Herman Santiago, and George Goldner - head of Gee Records. An employee of a furniture store in north Philadelphia, she was in South Carolina for a family funeral. Neither Zola nor Elizabeth could quite figure Emira Eagle Lymon, the 48-year-old third wife from Augusta, Ga. Frankie marrying a schoolteacher? He recorded other songs, alone and with his group the Teenagers, but none has inspired the same affection. Emira's attorneys have alleged that the other two widows "acted in concert" with Levy, and point to contracts that Zola and Elizabeth each signed with Levy's publishing business, Big Seven Music Corp. Each assigned the song's copyright to Big Seven in exchange for an advance ($10,000 in Elizabeth's case, $7,500 in Zola's) against her share of future royalties. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP6P329DMKY. The signs were plain, she says now, that Lymon was floundering, working only intermittently, addicted to drugs and probably to alcohol as well. Depending on how the judge rules, the decision may reactivate a federal suit to wrest Lymon's royalties and publishing rights from the record industry executive who claims to own them. The sum, he said, "might have been $1,500. As the lead vocalist for the Teenagers, Lymon (played by Larenz Tate) helped turn Why Do Fools Fall in Love into one of the biggest hits of 1956. Rodgers, who had been Roulettes top-selling artist in the 50s and early 60s with his #1 hit Honeycomb and 26 other charting singles, suffered traumatic head injuries from a blunt instrument in the beating. Next comes the feisty Elizabeth Waters (Vivica A. Eagle's New York counsel Ira Greenberg agreed that his "current inclination" was to appeal. That wasn't his style. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Elizabeth Waters - Director STEM Outreach - The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art | LinkedIn Elizabeth Waters Director STEM Outreach at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of. This legal drama was made into a movie earlier this year, named after his hit song Why fools fall in love. Frankie's particular scam, she thinks, was getting married. Who wrote "Why Do Fools Fall in Love"? "Knowing the facts like I know them, I feel confident there will be an appeal," McCracken predicted. "He was honest, completely honest," Elizabeth insists. Emiras attorneys argued that Elizabeth and Frankie separated in mid-1965 and never lived together as man and wife thereafter, invalidating her claim to a common-law marriage. "I didn't want her to hear it on the news," he said. Elizabeth went on to testify that she also saw Frankie the day before he took his last, fatal dose of heroin. 507 residents | Coed by wing | Single and double rooms. "Even though she had said no, she had said yes in the beginning; so Ronnie went ahead without going back and contacting Emira again. As soon as the hearing began, Emiras attorneys alleged that the other two widows acted in concert with Morris Levy. -- a classic bit of doo-wop doggerel with Lymon credited as coauthor -- are murky. "She's a square," Zola decided, noticing that Emira was coming to court in sneakers. Back in the 1950s, when a star-struck group like the Teenagers finally got to audition for the head of a record company, such matters as copyright barely figured in the conversation. Lymon's 1967 marriage to Eagle, marked by a ceremony at the Beulah Grove Baptist Church, was invalid, according to the opinion, because he was still married to Waters. She says he didn't mean to hurt her, and blames his behavior on his addictions. He left no fortune; when he died of a heroin overdose 20 years ago, he was broke and troubled, trying again for a comeback he never achieved. investigation of the infiltration of organized crime in the recording industry. Costumes Elisabetta Beraldo. Copyright document.write(new Date().getFullYear()), Michigan Rock and Roll Legends. She attempted to recover all the royalties from the date of the records release because she alleged that neither Levy nor his predecessor as co-writer, George Goldner who discovered and recorded the Teenagers, was actually a songwriter. Id have killed him, I was so angry, Zola told Span. What's different here is that before the suit could come to trial, Elizabeth petitioned the Surrogate Court claiming that she was Lymon's widow and Zola objected claiming that she was. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. With black rhythm and blues releases beginning to win white audiences, music had become a ticket to glory. "Just make sure the artist or writer gets his share." probe. "As far as I know, he was a very nice guy. I often tell people that Frankie didnt end up living a glorified life. The Lymon she knew was more of a homebody than a homeboy--someone so different than the man the other two women married that, as someone sarcastically comments, it seems like anything in a skirt was Frankies type.. She also stole the hearts of many people and led to a five-year legal battle to answer which of the three women who claimed to be married to the star was the real Mrs. Frankie Lemmon . Emira came to New York to arrange for his funeral mass and burial, and she paid the bill -- $2,000. "He had the type of personality that would draw people," she said. Macron wont let go off Africa so easily, he is love sick, Canadas Debt Crisis: A Never-Ending Burden Passed On From Generation to Generation, Alcohol tax in Canada: Canadian government is taking a sip out of your beer. "Remember, Frankie needed the money badly," Borstein said. Instead, he has posthumously provoked a trial that will determine which of the three women he is said to have married -- without ever scrupling to divorce any of them -- is really his widow and heir. They became lovers, Zola testified, one night in Bangor, Maine, when Frankie had won $1,700 gambling with Clyde McPhatter and she had gotten "a little loaded drinking scotch and water." Believing that she had the stronger case, Big Seven agreed to pay Elizabeth an additional $5,000 if the federal lawsuit was dismissed because the plaintiff (Emira) was determined to not be the legal widow. She said he didn't mean to hurt her, and blamed his behavior on his addictions. NEW YORK The judge who last winter heard three middle-aged women testify to their heartaches with the late Frankie Lymon the doo-wop idol who cowrote and sang "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" and died 20 years ago of a heroin overdose has found Elizabeth Waters, 46, of Philadelphia, to be Lymon's legal widow. And that led to his 1955 smash hit "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?," singing for Queen Elizabeth II at the London Palladium and performing in nightclubs and theaters worldwide. Emira Lymon, who was appointed administrator of his estate in Georgia in 1973, sued her dead husband`s record company in 1984 for $500,000 in royalties. Artist Rights Enforcement Corporation was heralded by the New York Times as the white knight of rock n roll for its efforts in recovering uncollected royalties for a host of artists including Wilbert Harrison, Richard Berry, the Coasters, and the Dell Vikings to name just a few. Fox), a prison-hardened former shoplifter and prostitute. Thats why were here today.. Key parts of this chronology are in dispute, of course. Ms. But I couldnt get my hands on him, couldnt find him. According to Elizabeth and several other witnesses, Frankie was back in New York telling them that his marriage to Zola had only been a publicity stunt. Visit our DAPHNE, AL 36526. 05:00 PM - 08:00 PM. She met Frankie when he was 20-years-old, backstage at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. Similar to the stars of today, whenever the press cites "exhaustion" it's drug related. Frankie had started using heroin again, and she was forced to hide the money from his occasional gigs in a hole in the wall of their apartment to prevent him from using it to buy drugs. In fact, Elizabeth says she saw him the day before he took his last, fatal dose of heroin. Waters, who on the witness stand acknowledged a long struggle with drugs and prostitution during her tempestuous relationship with the onetime star, got the news from her attorney Monday night. 22, 2021. Ash Taylor, Elizabeth Waters, and Amira Eagle reached out to Morris Levy, a music entrepreneur who retained Lymons copyrights and copyrights, claiming to be Lymons legal widow; Lymon didnt bother to divorce any of them. Production design Cary White. She claimed to have . That eventually led to singing on street corners with friends and being discovered at age 12 by George Goldner of GEE Records. The following month, Zola testified that she and Frankie drove to Tijuana and got married in a tiny chapel. Borstein, Levy's attorney, says the agreements amount to standard industry contracts. It was put on hold until the completion of a new trial to determine which of three women Frankie Lymon was said to have married, but none of whom he ever divorced, was his rightful widow and heir. Levy's attorney, Leon Borstein, says that Levy "assisted in the writing of the song; you have to remember, if he added one word, that's sufficient" to justify coauthorship. Elizabeth Waters claimed to have married Lymon in 1964 in Virginia. The Taylor sections are the most fun, largely because Taylor knew Lymon when he was at his performing peak and director Gregory Nava, whose last film was Selena, does an energetic job of re-creating the exuberant rock stage shows of the period. As a child star, however, I was subjected to discipline from agents, managers and lawyers, but it was a discipline that protected me from myself so to speak. Only after the trial to expose his wife was revealed, Fox was appointed as the producer. Unfortunately for Zola, she was unable to locate records documenting her Mexican wedding to Frankie, or documentation of her Mexican divorce from her previous marriage (her second). And that song, which he wrote or helped to write and which will bear his boyish vocal signature forever. In his book, Me, the Mob, and the Music, Tommy James characterized Levy as willing to strong-arm the artists signed to Roulette, and that the label was notorious for not paying its artists for their record sales. While growing up in New York City, I never had much discipline, Lymon said. He was told, after he raised the money, that she didnt want the headstone for the grave and that he wasnt authorized to put it on there.. If Emira won, she would share the proceeds with Chuck Rubin and go after Morris Levy. Paula Span reported that, during the trial, the judge even raised the disquieting possibility that none of his three supposed marriages was legally contracted, that Lymon had no widow. Hell, the boy had so many needle marks on him, I thought he was a God-damned . Its a mark of how shallow Fools is that even as gifted an actor as Tate (excellent in Menace II Society and Dead Presidents) cant turn Lymon into anything more than a cipher. The essence of their dispute was which of the marriages was legally binding, given a certain laxity in some quarters about divorce. He died on February 28, 1968 in New York City, New York, USA. None of the three women in court, all of whom he deceived and betrayed, seemed willing to condemn him. The marriage to Eagle is valid, so she is entitled to a fief. It makes him not only a good soldier, but a better individual. Elizabeths lawyers, on the other hand, maintained her marriage was valid, which meant that neither Zolas nor Emiras could have been. In a matter that grew steadily more complex, Jimmy Merchant and Herman Santiago, the two surviving members of the original Teenagers, filed their own federal suit against Levy and his companies, with Emira also named as a defendant. He followed it with Im Not a Juvenile Delinquent, I Want You to Be My Girl and other songs characterized by his trademark piercing high voice. But "I couldn't get my hands on him, couldn't find him." He was clean for a time when she became pregnant in 1963, and he was deeply saddend by the death of their infant daughter. 2010-02-12 00:06:12. Next comes the feisty Elizabeth Waters (Vivica A. She has never remarried. She and Frankie began living together in 1962, she testified. They point to the absence of documentation from Mexico as evidence that Zola and Frankie never married at all. The two surviving members of the Teenagers claim that they wrote the song with Lymon when they were all Harlem street-corner harmonizers hoping for a break. Mays Mortuary, 1221 James Brown Blvd. He had the type of personality that would draw people, she said. Her obituary was posted on February 9, 2023. He was energetic; dynamic; charismatic. As Waters' claim went to court, Taylor claimed that she had been sexually active with Lymon as early as the "Biggest Rock "n" Roll Show of 1956" tour. Franklin Joseph Lymon (September 30, 1942 - February 27, 1968) was an American rock and roll/rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, best known as the boy soprano lead singer of the New York City-based early rock and roll doo-wop group The Teenagers.The group was composed of five boys, all in their early to mid-teens. Frankie Lymon/Wife. However, it turned out she had been married to someone else at the time. So the trial went forward. The small wedding party celebrated by getting very drunk, not an uncommon state for Frankie at the time. Frankie could fool you, he could fool me; Frankie could fool God. It is in fact three wives who face the camera, one after another, each claiming to be Lymons true love and legal spouse. When a touring musical about Lymon's life came to the Imperial Theater in May of 2013, the cast invited Bryant to be the honored guest with her family and took photos with her after the show. This answer is: But Anne Pomeroy of the Artists Rights Enforcement Corp. (which has played a major role in the Lymon case, and about which more later) spoke with Emira at length. Zola and Elizabeth didn't get close to Emira; and she didn't have anything much to say to them either during the 10 days they spent in court reliving the past. Director Gregory Nava. co-starring Halle Barry, Lela Rochon and Vivica A. Lymon is always short of money, no childhood, and, in most descriptions, lacks calmness, but when a small star appears on the stage, he always steals the limelight. ", Meanwhile, Paula Span used both interviews and court testimony to profile each of the widows in her story. Borstein also said that Lymon, who was always pestering Levy for money, sold Levy the copyright to all his songs and that Levy has a signed document to that effect. He was staying in his grandmother's apartment on West 165th Street. "And he was still just a kid when he started on the next wife, Elizabeth Waters," said Nava. He moved into her home and her bedroom. Lymon, known for being the lead vocalist of the world-wide popular rock group Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers, died less than a year later on Feb. 27, 1968, at age 25 in New York City, reportedly of a heroin overdose. When she and Frankie fought about it, Elizabeth said in court, he pulled a gun on her and she fled. All these arguments were laid forth in voluminous briefs, memoranda, and affidavits filed in Surrogate Court. For Frankie had helped himself to hers. Jimmy Merchant and Herman Santiago, the two surviving members of the original Teenagers (Sherman Garnes, the inventive bass, and Joe Negroni were the others), say they wrote "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" with Frankie Lymon, and they have filed their own federal suit against Levy et al., with Emira also named as a defendant. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Please enter your username or email address to reset your password. He lived for 26 years, was a star for one and a half of them, and left behind a miserable financial and legal mess and three wounded women. As Water's claim went to court, Zola Taylor ex-member of the Platters, claimed that she had been sexually active with Lymon as early as the "Biggest Rock "n" Roll Show of 1956" tour. Waters bore Lymon's only known child, a daughter who died shortly after birth. Sound Veda Campell. "Sell, sell, sell," he advised. Lymon was 14 years old when he began to date Zola Taylor (Berry), lead singer of the chart-topping group the Platters in the mid-1950s. If none of the women is Frankie's widow, the surviving members of his family stand to inherit. Span reported that Zolas secretary and her booking agent both testified that they were witnesses to the wedding, and that her attorneys argued that California law made her a putative (believed to be) spouse entitled to share in Frankie Lymons property. That don't make me a Catholic. 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