“Love Is Here and Now you’re Gone” was the group’s ninth overall chart-
topper on the Billboard Hot 100.

The song “God Only Knows” was voted # 25 in Rolling Stone
magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and was ranked
by Pitchfork Media as the greatest song of the 1960s.The
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame included it as one of "500 Songs
That Shaped Rock and Roll".

"I Want a Guy" is a song written by Freddie Gorman, Berry
Gordy and Brian Holland and was the debuting single for
Motown female group The Supremes.

Venus became Avalon’s first number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart,
where it spent five weeks atop the survey. The song also reached number
ten on the R&B chart. Al Martino was offered the song originally, but turned
it down.

Frankie Avalon (Francis Thomas Avallone)
will be 75 on September 18.

Young Micky Dolenz in Circus Boy on NBC/ABC from 1956
to 1958.

George Michael "Micky" Dolenz, Jr. was born in Los
Angeles, California

Dolenz was in college when he was hired as the drummer and
lead singer for the 1960s rock band The Monkees.