Editing Fabian Forte (section)

===Early songs===
Fabian was given an allowance from the record company of $30 a week ({{Inflation|US|30|1957|fmt=eq}}). He also kept working part-time at a pharmacy as well as studying at South Philadelphia High School, while practicing his singing. Fabian later said "I didn't know what I was doing, but I knew my goal, to try to make extra money. That meant a lot to our family. I rehearsed and rehearsed, and I really felt like a fish out of water. And we made a record. And it was horrible. Yet it got on [[Georgie Woods]]. For some reason, Georgie Woods played it."<ref name="fabian"/>
 
The song was "Shivers", which was a local hit in Chicago. This helped Fabian meet [[Dick Clark]], who agreed to try Fabian at one of Clark's record hops, where singers would perform to teenage audiences. Fabian lip synched to a song and Clark wrote "the little girls at the hop went wild. They started screaming and yelling for this guy who didn't do a thing but stand there. I've never seen anything like it." Clark told Marcucci "you got a hit, he's a star. Now all you have to do is teach him to sing."<ref name=Clark>{{cite book| title=Rock, Roll & Remember| url=https://archive.org/details/rockrollremember0000clar| page=59| publisher=Crowell| year=1976| isbn=978-0-6900-1184-5}}</ref>

Clark eventually put the young singer on ''[[American Bandstand]]'' where he sang "I'm in Love". Fabian later admitted this song "was not very good either"<ref name="gold">{{cite magazine| url=http://www.goldminemag.com/article/a-tale-of-two-idols-fabian-and-neil-sedaka| title=Fabian, Neil Sedaka took different paths to teen-idol status| magazine=[[Goldmine (magazine)|Goldmine]]| date=February 15, 2012| access-date=2022-03-01}}</ref> but "the response – they told me – was overwhelming. I had no idea. All during that period, I was doing record hops. Not getting paid for it, but for the record company promotions. Just lip synching to my records. The response was really good."<ref name="fabian"/>