Who was your favourite 'teenybopper' act?

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  1. Bobby Morrow

    Bobby Morrow Senior Member Thread Starter

    Many of us have at least one.:D

    I grew up in the 70s which was rife with them. Marc Bolan, Donny Osmond, David Cassidy, Bay City Rollers... I could go on.:)

    One thing that's never changed is that there have always been acts aimed solely at the kids. Some of them break out of this and go onto successful adult careers, but many don't.

    So, who was your favourite(s)? Do they still hold a place in your heart, or is the 'grown up' you mortified you once bought a rosette with Les McKeown on it.:D

    I go back as far as the 70s but this thread is for teenyboppers through the ages. Post favourite songs, pictures, videos and memories of them if you want.
     
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  2. jeffd7030

    jeffd7030 I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.

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    I had a Shaun Cassidy poster on my wall. My Mom took me to his concert. I still have a record but dont listen often.
     
  3. footprintsinthesand

    footprintsinthesand Reasons to be cheerful part 1

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    Don't know if he fits the description, but to me it has to be Alice Cooper in my teens. Wayne and Garth feel the same way :agree:

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  4. Bobby Morrow

    Bobby Morrow Senior Member Thread Starter

    Shaun Cassidy was oddly popular in the States, wasn't he? I don't think he made any impact at all in the UK.
     
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  5. vince

    vince Stan Ricker's son-in-law

    While only famous in Japan, the only 'teenybopper' act in my collection are these guys:
     
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  6. vince

    vince Stan Ricker's son-in-law

    They even had their own cartoon show:
     
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  7. Jim B.

    Jim B. Senior Member

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    Frank Sinatra, The Monkees, The Beatles....
     
  8. Bobby Morrow

    Bobby Morrow Senior Member Thread Starter

    Well, Alice wasn't really what I had in mind, but different strokes and all that.:D

    We were talking about Bowie being one of those heart throbs like David and Donny in the 70s in another thread.. Of course he would have been, but he was always so much more than that, wasn't he?
     
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  9. malco49

    malco49 Forum Resident

    the monkees ( that should go over well)
     
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  10. Deek57

    Deek57 Forum Resident

    Shhh don't tell anyone, but I did secretly quite like Slade..
     
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  11. Bobby Morrow

    Bobby Morrow Senior Member Thread Starter

    Did you go so far as to have a Dave Hill haircut?

    Not for the faint hearted.
     
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  12. Deek57

    Deek57 Forum Resident

    Shheeesh no, that would have been a giveaway...
     
  13. Mark B.

    Mark B. Forum Resident

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    Osmonds
    Slade
    Partridge Family
    Monkees
    Suzy Quatro (pre-"Happy Days")
     
  14. Holy Diver

    Holy Diver Senior Member

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    The Hardy Boys TV show helped him out quite a bit, also.
     
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  15. Mainline461

    Mainline461 Forum Resident

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    The Archies
     
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  16. footprintsinthesand

    footprintsinthesand Reasons to be cheerful part 1

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    Absolutely, glad he got the Ziggy character out of the way.
    Of some of these teenybopper acts I never quite understood what made them irresistible, but music magazines had their pictures, silly stories and giant posters every week. And when did it really end - round the time after Grease or Racey :shh:, or did it just continue ?
     
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  17. jeddy

    jeddy Forum Resident

    The Beatles

    They had the coolest lunchboxes
     
  18. Bobby Morrow

    Bobby Morrow Senior Member Thread Starter

    I don’t think it ever ended... Just look at One Direction.
     
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  19. Bobby Morrow

    Bobby Morrow Senior Member Thread Starter

    Hope that’s not a sexual term.:D
     
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  20. Bobby Morrow

    Bobby Morrow Senior Member Thread Starter

    Suzi Quatro did seem to help a lot of teenage boys ‘find themselves’ in those awkward early teenage years.
     
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  22. Chemguy

    Chemguy Forum Resident

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    Yep, The Monkees and the Bay City Rollers, too.
     
  23. SITKOL'76

    SITKOL'76 Forum Resident

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    The nostalgia is too much to handle, this show was a favorite on Cartoon Network as a kid.
     
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  24. Bobby Morrow

    Bobby Morrow Senior Member Thread Starter

    A good gap between those two. Your teenybop phase went on for quite a few years.:D
     
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