Bobby Rydell had a string of hit songs in the late 1950s-early 1960s (including Volare, We Got Love, Wild One, and Forget Him). He also starred with Ann-Margret in the 1963 film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie. He continues to tour all over the world. He was also memorialized in the 1978 movie Grease with the high school's name, Rydell High.
Rydell mentions Scranton on page 178 of his autobiography, discussing his change in management:
"Besides, I had some other big challenges that were complicating my life. One was small; the other would take three decades to work out.
The small one was fixed in a day. Stan Seidenberg was out. In 1986, I performed a benefit concert in Scranton, Pennsylvania for a close friend, a priest named Father Joseph Sica. I didn't like the way Stan handled the finances and we had a falling out. When I fell, it was right into the arms of Dick Fox, who has been my manager for the last thirty years. If only he knew back then what he was getting into."
