A Teenager in Love
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"A Teenager in Love" is a song written by Doc Pomus and partner Mort Shuman and originally sung by Dion and the Belmonts, released in March 1959. It reached #5 on the Billboard pop charts. In May 1959. the song held three positions in the British Top 20, the other two versions being by Marty Wilde and Craig Douglas.[1] The song is considered one of the greatest songs in Rock and Roll history.[2]
In 1970, it was covered by Simon and Garfunkel in their final show as a recording duo at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in Queens, New York. This song was covered several other times, for example by Marty Wilde, Connie Stevens and the Mutations in the Muppet Show, by Less Than Jake on Goodbye Blue & White, and in 2002 by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and was released as a B-Side to the single By The Way. It is also featured as a playable song in the Nintendo Wii Game Rayman Raving Rabbids 2.
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- ^ "Doc Pomus Biography". www.felderpomus.com. http://www.felderpomus.com/docpomus1.html#ShortBio. Retrieved 2008-03-26.
- ^ "Doc Pomus". www.rockhall.com. http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/doc-pomus. Retrieved 2008-03-26.
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