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((short description|American musician))
((Use mdy dates|date=January 2020))
((More citations needed|date=December 2016))
((Infobox musical artist
| name                = Zola Taylor
| image               = The Platters performing.jpg
| caption             = Zola Taylor (third from left) performing with [[The Platters]]
| image_size          = 
| background          = solo_singer
| birth_name          = Zoletta Lynn Taylor
| alias               = 
| birth_date          = ((birth date|1938|3|17))
| birth_place         = Los Angeles, California, United States
| death_date          = ((death date and age|2007|4|30|1938|3|17))
| death_place         = Los Angeles, California, United States
| origin              = 
| instrument          = Vocals
| genre               = [[Rock and roll]], [[blues]], [[rhythm and blues|R&B]]
| occupation          = Musician
| years_active        = 1951–1967 
| label               = 
| associated_acts     = [[The Platters]], [[Frankie Lymon]], [[The Teenagers]], [[Little Richard]]
| website             = 
))

'''Zoletta Lynn Taylor''' (March 17, 1938 – April 30, 2007) was an American singer. She was the original female member of [[The Platters]] from 1954 to 1962, when the group produced most of their popular singles.

==Litigation==
Zola Taylor was a member of The Platters until 1962, when she was replaced by singer [[Barbara Randolph]].  Taylor was the second of [[Frankie Lymon]]'s three wives. In 1984, on behalf of Emira Lymon, a lawyer and artists' agent sued to wrest the [[copyright]] of Frankie's hit song "[[Why Do Fools Fall in Love (song)|Why Do Fools Fall in Love]]" away from the current owner. The case became confused when it looked like Lymon had a second and possibly a third widow. Elizabeth Waters claimed to have married Lymon in 1964 in Virginia. However, it turned out she had been married to someone else at the time.  As Waters' claim went to court, Taylor claimed that she had been sexually active with Lymon as early as the "Biggest Rock "n" Roll Show of 1956" tour. She claimed to have married Lymon in Mexicali, Mexico around 1965, but could not produce a marriage license.<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2007-05-01-zola-taylor_N.htm |title=Zola Taylor of The Platters dies at 69 |website=USA Today |date=May 1, 2007 |access-date=December 4, 2016))</ref> The first hearing, held in Philadelphia, was decided in favor of Waters being Lymon's first wife. Emira Eagle, his third wife, appealed and won a reversal based on her claim that she was Lymon's first wife.

==Accomplishments, death and legacy==
Taylor appeared with The Platters in the first rock'n'roll film, ''[[Rock Around the Clock (film)|Rock Around the Clock]]''.<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049682/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1|title=Rock Around the Clock (1956)|publisher=IMDb|access-date=December 4, 2016))</ref> In 1990, Taylor was elected to the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] as a member of The Platters. Zola Taylor died in [[Riverside, California]] at age 69, from [[pneumonia]], following a series of strokes.<ref name="nytobit">((cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/obituaries/02taylor.html |title=Zola Taylor, 69, R&B Singer, Is Dead |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=May 2, 2007 |access-date=December 4, 2016))</ref> Taylor is portrayed by [[Halle Berry]] in the 1998 film ''[[Why Do Fools Fall in Love (film)|Why Do Fools Fall in Love]]''.

==References==
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==Links==
*((IMDb name|0853357))
*((Find a Grave|19168379))

((The Platters))
((1990 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame))

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