The Music of November 22: Dion's 'Abraham, Martin and John'

The pop star was known for teenage love songs, but his reflective comeback hit was a lament powered by tragedy

[This is the second in an occasional series that considers songs influenced by the assassination of JFK.]

As a kid in Queens, I was not a “teenybopper” fan of the pioneering doo-wop group Dion and the Belmonts — Belmont being the avenue and the neighborhood known as the Little Italy of the Bronx. To be sure, Dion was a hitmaker with popular songs like “A…