A Mouseketeer Has Gone.

 

A member of the original Micky Mouse Club "Mouseketeers" - and the subject of many a young teenage boy's day-dreams - Annette Funicello passed away on the 8th. of April 2013, succumbing at age 70 to complications brought on by her long battle with Multiple Sclerosis.

Apart from being a Mouseketeer, Annette will also be forever associated with Frankie Avalon (pictured together above) and her appearance and singing in "Beach Party" movies.
(At today's date Frankie Avalon is 72 and living in the USA).

Annette had several Top Twenty hits in the 1960s, including "Tall Paul", "O Dio Mio" and "Pineapple Princess".

A lovely girl who, as she grew up and went from childhood to young-adulthood to senior-citizen, never lost her charms.

One of my teenage crushes has slipped away.