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2 unusual facts about Frankie Avalon


Joan Freeman

In 1962, Freeman was cast as Marilyn Hayes in the doom and gloom classic film, Panic in Year Zero! alongside veteran film stars Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, and singer teenage heart-throb Frankie Avalon.

Lyndall Hobbs

In 1987, she directed her first full-length feature film entitled Back to the Beach starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello.


Chancellor Records

Its first hit was "With All My Heart" sung by Jodie Sands (1957), but the major artists the label was famous for were Frankie Avalon and Fabian Forte, and later Claudine Clark.

Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?

The song was originally published in 1933 and since then, there have been many covers of the song, including Henry Hall's 1933 cover and a version by Frankie Avalon for the 1960 album Summer Scene.


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Butch Van Artsdalen

Van Artsdalen received onscreen credit in one of William Asher's "surfploitation" comedies, Muscle Beach Party, starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello.