If you were a teenage girl during the early 1960s, chances were better than good that your walls were plastered with pinup photos of Bobby Rydell. The former Robert Ridarelli of Philadelphia was a genuine teen idol, object of fantasy for millions of young women and object of jealously for their would-be suitors. Bobby Rydell was the face of young America during those Camelot years, and the voice of America too. His string of hit records went a long way towards defining the transitional years between the reigns of Elvis and the Beatles.
