Frankie Avalon will bring a career that spans three generations to a performance at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 5 in Wickenburg, about 30 miles northwest of Sun City West.
Mr. Avalon rose to fame as a teen idol after starring in classic 1950’s TV and movies, including "Beach Blanket Bingo." His music continued with a long string of hit singles like "Bobby Socks to Stockings," "Venus" and "Beauty School Dropout." With a career spanning decades of music, television and film, Mr. Avalon was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.
His years as a "Teenage Idol" have given way to his status as one of the busiest nightclub performers in the country. His motion picture career includes some 30 films.
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Legendary Frankie Avalon appearing in Wickenburg
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Frankie Avalon will bring a career that spans three generations to a performance at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 5 in Wickenburg, about 30 miles northwest of Sun City West.
Mr. Avalon rose to fame as a teen idol after starring in classic 1950’s TV and movies, including "Beach Blanket Bingo." His music continued with a long string of hit singles like "Bobby Socks to Stockings," "Venus" and "Beauty School Dropout." With a career spanning decades of music, television and film, Mr. Avalon was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.
His years as a "Teenage Idol" have given way to his status as one of the busiest nightclub performers in the country. His motion picture career includes some 30 films.
Mr. Avalon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Sept. 18, 1940.
"It seems like every young kid in Philadelphia wanted to be a singer," he says on his official website. "I started as a musician…a trumpet player in the beginning. But, when I picked up the paper one day and read about Jimmy Darren who was from my own neighborhood and school, making a successful career for himself, I decided that I could do it just as well."
Mr. Avalon will perform at the Del E. Webb Center for the Performing Arts, 1090 S. Vulture Mine Road, a state-of-the-art 600 seat theatre which opened for its inaugural season in the fall of 2001.
IF YOU GO
Who: Frankie Avalon
When: 7:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 5
Tickets: $60-70
Where: Del E. Webb Center for the Performing Arts, 1090 S. Vulture Mine Road, Wickenburg
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