Another group, The Five Crowns, became the Drifters and a singer named Ben (Ben E King) Nelson became their new front man. Their first hit with Ben E. King was There Goes My Baby, one of the 1st R&B hits backed by strings. Other hits with King were Dance With Me, This Magic Moment, and Save The Last Dance For Me.
1 New estimates show that there are about 20 million new sexually transmitted infections in the United States each year. 2  Young people, between the ages of 15 to 24, account for 50% of all new STDs, although they represent just 25% of the sexually experienced population.
In California almost 70% of teen births are fathered by adult men. On an average California day 76 teenage girls, 17 & younger, will give birth. In Stanislaus County over 6% of teenage girls will give birth in any given year. In 1993 1,572 births in California were to mothers 14 years or younger. The rate of sexually transmitted disease among teenage girls is twice that of teenage boys.