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The Angels topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for three consecutive weeks in the late summer of 1963 with “My Boyfriend’s Back”!

This clip is from the 1982 Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons’ recorded concert at Park West in Chicago!

In our week’s salute of the 36th anniversary of the monster smash hit “December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)” topping the Billboard Hot 100 chart, here’s a vintage Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons appearance from The Midnight Special! Enjoy!

Considering this week in 1963, The Four Seasons’ “Walk Like A Man” was topping the Hot 100 chart, we decided to salute it for one more week! How many movies have featured this fantastic song? Well, so far, we’ve found three! Check out these movie trailers! The Wanderers (1979): Set against the urban jungle of [...]

Forty-nine years ago today, on March 2, 1963, The Four Seasons had their third chart-topper: “Walk Like A Man”! The song, co-written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio, remained in the Number One position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for three straight weeks. When asked about the inspiration for “Walk Like A Man,” here’s [...]

Picture this: Frankie Valli hosting “The Midnight Special” in the summer of 1975 and seeing The Four Seasons debuting “Who Loves You”! Later that summer–that great song entered the Top 40 charts and peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the fall, remaining on the chart for 20 weeks! What was the high [...]

This week, in 1958, “Short Shorts” by The Royal Teens was climbing up the Billboard Hot 100. The song, co-written by group members Bob Gaudio and Tom Austin, peaked at #3 and remained on the chart for 16 weeks. Does anyone know what TV show is featured on this video?

Do you guys remember this television special celebrating Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons’ 20th anniversary that was recorded at Park West in Chicago back in 1982? A little trivia about “Dawn”: It debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 on February 1, 1964 and peaked at #3 in March. The song was co-written by Bob [...]

As you guys know from Act One in JERSEY BOYS, the guys who eventually named themselves “The Four Seasons” sang backup for many of Bob Crewe’s artists. One of those artists included Hal Miller & The Rays on “An Angel Cried,” a song written by Bob Gaudio that was recorded in 1961. Check out the [...]

The Four Seasons were obviously–ubiquitous–on the radio in the 1960s, not only with their own monster hits, but also they recorded theme songs for two major DJ’s: Cousin Brucie & Joey Reynolds! Check out these fantastic jingles!

Let’s start the New Year’s celebration a little early–with a Friday Flashback performance of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve ’89!

In honor of JERSEY BOYS Australia’s final performance in Sydney on Sunday, December 18, let’s salute this phenomenal cast from some of their amazing appearances! This one is from their “Candles by Candlelight” appearance in Melbourne, 2009!

After the fantastic French rap number at the beginning of JERSEY BOYS, Tommy DeVito tells the audience, “That’s our song. ‘Oh, what a night.’ ‘Ces soirées-là.’ French. Number One in Paris, 2000. Ten weeks. Not bad for a song from 30 years ago.’ Here’s a little info about the artist and the big international hit: [...]

“The Puppet Song” by The Four Seasons was composed by Jet Loring and Artie Schroeck. This track was included on the album “The 4 Seasons New Gold Hits” in 1967. This song sounds like it easily could have been released as a single back in ’67–with the great orchestrations, Frankie’s “growl,” and the powerful background [...]

Let’s keep celebrating Thanksgiving–with the JERSEY BOYS OBC 2006 performance on CBS!

In celebration of “Big Girls Don’t Cry” being Number One on the Hot 100 back this week in 1962, let’s go back to the vault for another fabulous Four Seasons’ performance!

For today’s Friday Flashback, a little Billboard chart trivia about “Let’s Hang On”: This song, written by Bob Crewe, Sandy Linzer, and Denny Randell, peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 on December 11, 1965. It stayed in the Top 10 for eight consecutive weeks (six of those weeks in the Top 5) and [...]

This Sunday, November 6, JERSEY BOYS Broadway will be celebrating SIX phenomenal years on Broadway at the August Wilson Theatre! Let’s get the party started with a Friday Flashback from the Broadway Channel!