Will any of those pre-pubescent Justin Bieber fans screaming themselves hoarse in Blaisdell Arena this weekend admit to having been Bieber-maniacs when they’re older?

Maybe. Maybe not.

A friend who was an outspoken New Kids on the Block fan 20 years ago begged off when I asked her if she’d share her memories of the experience.

"No one I work with knows about (those days)," she says.

I reassured her that her secret was safe with me.

Bieber is the latest in a long line of young pop stars "Uncle Tom" Moffatt has seen come and go over the last 55 years. When rock ‘n’ roll was taking off here in the late ’50s, the biggest names were "Pat Boone, Elvis, Rick Nelson and Tommy Sands."

Elvis and Boone excepted, most of the early teen idols were teens themselves. Some were talents in their own right — singer/songwriter Paul Anka first and foremost, and Frankie Avalon and Bobby Rydell. Others were good-looking guys who had been in the right place at the right time.

Television launched Ricky Nelson and several others — Paul Peterson, Shelley Fabares and Johnny Crawford (aka Mark McCain of "The Rifleman").

"The girls loved (Crawford)," Moffatt says. "He was on TV every week and the girls fell in love with him on TV."

Hawaii contributed its own teen idols as well. Robin Luke was still in high school when he wrote and recorded "Suzie Darling." The song became a national hit. Much, much later, Glenn Medeiros won the original Brown Bags to Stardom contest, got a national record deal, and became the first Hawaii resident artist to earn a "gold" record.

Ronnie Diamond, another homegrown idol, never made the national Hot 100. On the other hand, Brooklyn-born Teddy Randazzo never broke the Hot 100 nationally but enjoyed idol status here. "The girls loved Teddy. In Hawaii, he was up on the same level with Elvis and Tommy Sands and Rick Nelson in that time period," Moffatt says.

The "English Invasion" of 1964 generated so much screaming that the Beatles said later that there were times they couldn’t hear themselves play. The "Fab Four" and the Rolling Stones were huge here, of course, but Moffatt says members of three other groups were particularly popular with young female fans: Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits, Eddie Brigati and Dino Danelli of the Young Rascals, and Davy Jones of the Monkees.

Teen idols with predominately female fans have a relatively short shelf life — about the time it takes for girls who are interested in boys to mature to the point where boys become interested in them. Bobby Sherman, David Cassidy, Donnie Osmond and Shaun Cassidy all had their time as heartthrobs.

Moffatt remembers booking Leif Garrett for a show here in the late ’70s. By the time Garrett got here, his fans had moved on "and nothing happened," Moffatt says. "We had to cancel it. Shaun Cassidy sold out, but a year later, nothing."

"I think the teenage girls are kind of fickle."

Menudo — a manufactured Puerto Rican "boy band" whose members must retire when they turn 16, or when their voice deepens — was big for a moment.

"The girls were nuts over them. This was a big market for them, but that’s all passed," Moffatt says.

Other "boy bands" with a bit more staying power included New Kids on the Block, Backstreet Boys and *Nsync, but "there’s not that hysteria now that greeted (*Nsync) when they came here 10 years ago."