RARE EDDIE FONTAINE 78 " COOL IT BABY / INTO EACH LIFE SOME RAIN" BRUNS 05624 E+
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A RARE LITTLE ROCKER THIS ONE - TAKEN FROM THE FILM "TEENAGE REBEL"
EDDIE FONTAINE
"COOL IT BABY"
b/w INTO EACH LIFE SOME RAIN MUST FALL
GREAT STUFF!!
Eddie Fontaine (aka Eddie Reardon) (March 6, 1927—April 13, 1992) was an American actor and singer, best known for television roles in the 1960s and 1970s. Born Edward Reardon in Springfield, MA Fontaine signed as a vocalist with RCA in 1954 after serving in the U.S. Navy. In 1955 he appeared at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater in disc jockey Alan Freed's first rock and roll show. He also sang in the Jayne Mansfield movie The Girl Can't Help It and the film "Teenage Rebel" (also 1956)
Fontaine moved to Van Nuys, California in the 1960s after singing in night clubs in pre-Castro Cuba. He landed a role in the World War II series The Gallant Men, where he played ladies' man PFC Pete D'Angelo and occasionally sang. Although he never won another regular role in a television series Fontaine made many guest appearances on shows such as 77 Sunset Strip, Baretta, The Rockford Files and Quincy. He also toured as a rockabilly singer, and is in the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.
In 1984, Eddie Fontaine was tried and convicted in a murder-for-hire case. According to police documents, in 1983, Fontaine approached a country singer with the promise of a recording contract with RCA, along with a large sum of money, if the man were to kill his estranged wife, which whom he was having a custody battle with at the time. Fontaine served four years in a California prison.
He made his last TV appearance in the series Sisters in 1991 and died of cancer the following year at age 65.
Teeage Rebel is a 1956 American drama film directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Ginger Rogers. It was nominated for two Academy Awards; Best Costume Design and Best Art Direction (Lyle R. Wheeler, Jack Martin Smith, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss)
The film was an adaptation of the play A Roomful of Roses by Edith Sommer, with Betty Lou Keim reprising her Broadway role.
Teenage Rebel was the first black-and-white CinemaScope film
DISC DETAILS
UK BRUNSWICK 05624 10" 78rpm SHELLAC
A SIDE: COOL IT BABY (from Teenage Rebel)
B SIDE: INTO EACH LIFE SOME RAIN MUST FALL
CONDITION:- EX+
VERY RARE!
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