Modern Screen (Feb-Dec 1959)

how the fans were attracted magnetically to Fabian. Disk jockeys liked him at once, and gave his record a lot of spins. Dick Clark put him on the show, and drew a tremendous response. Marcucci admits the first record was not good, but it served the purpose of introducing Fabian into national show business. The next record, Lilly Lou, was better, but it wasn't a smash hit. Yet it didn't seem to matter. Fabian caused an uproar everywhere he appeared. He electrified his audiences. He went on the road for four weeks during school vacation, and for the first time, he felt the surge of power. His feelings of inferiority started to fade as he saw fans screech and howl their love at him and clutch for autographs. Magazines started to compare him to Ricky and to Elvis. Editors ordered scads of stories about him. A big talent agency, G.A.C., signed to book his appearances. His third record, I'm a Man, climbed up to the top forty on the best seller charts, and lus fourth disk, Turn Me Loose, started big. He was booked on the Perry Como Show. Several movie companies want him, but his managers are not in a hurry; they know Fabian is 'making it big' and can pick his spots when he is ready. A G.A.C. executive, Vic Jarmel, says, "Fabian is the exception to the rule that a young singer is made by a hit record. Fabian was accepted by teenagers before he had a strong record. They wanted him the instant they saw him or heard him. We at the agency know he'll be a great big star in the movies, too. It's inevitable." When he became sixteen last February 6th, Fabian was playing before 6,000 people in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and the audience rose and cheered when the rest of the performers of the rock & roll show surprised Fabian with a huge birthday "This is the birthday of my life ... I will never forget it," Fabian said, holding back the tears of happiness. He has grown the past year to almost a full six feet. He has developed grace, and moves with a feline sensuality that has brought screams from fans: "You're a tiger!" His fan mail mounts to 2,000 or 3,000 on week ends alone. A born gentleman Yet the adulation has not undermined his instinctive good manners. When he did the Dick Clark Show in February, he was rushed out of the ABC Studios, with tv makeup still on, to a waiting car that was to drive him to Newark airport, where a chartered plane was to fly him to 3,000 fans in Allentown, Pennsylvania. But he said, "Oh ... I forgot to thank Dick!" and raced back to the studios. He got to Allentown late; but he had done what was more important to him. A bit after his birthday, Fabian received another thrill: winning the Most Promising Male Vocalist in Dick Clark's annual American Bandstand poll, beating out more experienced singers who've had more hit records. When he crawls into bed at night, tired but happy after a rousing performance before big crowds, he says his prayers, and then wonders at the miracle of his sixteenth year. He was a kid around the block at fifteen, and a star singer at sixteen. He started the year as a nobody, and wound up a somebody. He started the year positive he could not sing, and ended being acclaimed a singing star. . And faith did it: Marcucci s faith in his potential, his own faith in himself, his parents' faith that the effort was worth it. Yes, the year between a fifteenth and a sixteenth birthday can be a lifetime! END CRYSTAL Set curls in seconds witk a dask of color! USE LADY ELLEN COLOUR KlIPPIES. pin carl clips Set pin curls in seconds with Colour Klippies. Wear these same colorful clips in public to hold straying curls... and straying glances. Campus cuties love 'em... and so will you! Lady Ellen Colour Klippies match or blend with any hair shade, hair style or costume. Select your own personal color from six lovely pastels: Pink, Black, Shell, Amber, Crystal, Sky Blue. Glamorous Colour Klippies set curls with jet speed. They spring open at fingertip touch, glide quickly and easily onto curls. Klippies hug your curls gently, hold them securely with firm, even tension. The only clip used by 90% of all beauticians. Buy Colour Klippies— 8 foi 29^ —at your variety, drug, food and department store and in beauty shops. Write today for 16-page illustrated booket, "How to Set a Pin Curl'.' Included Free is a Klippies Code that tells you how boy friends react to certain colors. Send 104 to Lady Ellen, Dept. MS-67, Los Angeles 51, California.