Beach Blanket Bingo I Think You Think performed by Avalon and Funicello 1965

AVALON, Frankie (b. 18 September 1940 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), and Annette Joanne FUNICELLO (b. 22 October 1942 in Utica, New York), singers and actors who came to prominence as teen idols in the 1950s, then costarred in the successful Beach Party series of teen films in the 1960s.

Avalon was born Francis Thomas Avalone. He began his show business career as a child trumpet player, appearing on The Jackie Gleason Show and other programs and recording two instrumental records, "Trumpet Sorrento" and "Trumpet Tarantella," for X-Vik Records, an RCA subsidiary; both records were released in 1954. Avalon then joined the band Rocco and the Saints, whose lineup included the drummer Robert Ridarelli (later a teen idol himself, as Bobby Rydell). In 1957, while still in high school in Philadelphia, Avalon signed with Peter De Angelis and Robert Marcucci, songwriters who also managed Chancellor Records. At the end of the year Avalon released "DeDe Dinah," which became his first Top Ten hit.

Avalon's success coincided with the rise of the "teen idols," a crop of pleasant, nonthreatening male singers such as Bobby Rydell, Bobby Vinton, and Fabian, who represented a safe alternative to the wildness of the original rock-and-roll stars such as Elvis Presley. From 1958 to 1959 Avalon had Top Ten hits with the songs "Venus," which was his biggest hit, selling more than one million copies in less than one week; "Why," which topped the charts; "Ginger Bread"; "Bobby Sox to Stockings"; and "Just Ask Your Heart." After 1960 his records charted increasingly lower, but by then he had moved into films. He made his screen debut performing the song "Teacher's Pet" in Jamboree (1957), and later appeared in The Alamo (1960), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961), Panic in the Year Zero (1962), Sail a Crooked Ship (1962), Drums of Africa (1963), and Operation Bikini (1963).
Funicello was the only girl of three children born to Joe Funicello, a mechanic, and Virginia Albano, a homemaker. When Funicello was four years old the family moved from New York across the country to the San Fernando Valley outside Los Angeles. She began taking music and dancing lessons, and in 1955 she was discovered by Walt Disney, who saw her performing the lead role in Swan Lake in an amateur dance revue at the Starlight Bowl in Burbank, California. That same year he cast her in his new television program, the Mickey Mouse Club, where she quickly became the most popular "Mouseketeer" and even had her own line of licensed merchandise. Funicello subsequently appeared in the Disney television serials Adventures of Spin and Marty (1955) and Zorro (1957), as well as the Disney films The Shaggy Dog (1959) and Babes in Toyland (1961). She launched her singing career on the Disneyland and Buena Vista labels, having Top Twenty hits with "Tall Paul" (1959) and "O Dio Mio" and "Pineapple Princess" (both 1960). Her albums Annette Sings Anka and Hawaiiannette (both 1960) and Annette's Beach Party (1963) all charted in the Top Forty. She received a high school diploma in 1960.
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