'Leave me alone. I'm worried about my dad.'"

When Fabian's father returned from the hospital, he was unable to work. When Marcucci persisted in his recruitment efforts, Fabian and his family were amenable to them, and he agreed to record a single. Frankie Avalon, also of South Philadelphia, suggested Fabian as a possibility. Fabian later said, "They gave me a pompadour and some clothes and those goddamned white bucks and out I went." "He was the right look and right for what we were going for",