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In honor of original Four Seasons’ bass guitarist, bass singer, and vocal arranger Nick Massi’s birthday, we wanted to share a rare 1964 fantastic concert recording of him singing lead on “Close Your Eyes.”

The first single Tommy DeVito, Bob Gaudio, Nick Massi, and Frankie Valli released under the new name “The Four Seasons” was not “Sherry,” the song that topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for five weeks back in 1962. Their first single was actually “Bermuda,” a song that the group released back in 1961 on George [...]

Bob Gaudio Found this fabulous archive online! John Gilliland’s “The Pop Chronicles” traces the history of popular music from the 1950’s through the 1960’s. Mr. Gilliland wrote, narrated and produced these 55 hours of broadcasting first airing at KRLA in Pasadena in February 1969. On Track 3, The Four Seasons (Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito, Joe [...]

Forty-nine years ago today, The Four Seasons’ had their first chart-topping hit, “Sherry”! The song remained in the Number One position for five consecutive weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. As we know from JERSEY BOYS, Bob Gaudio says, “Two takes on a Sunday afternoon. And then the whole world exploded” Here’s the rest [...]

Let’s go back to 1987 for Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons’ fantastic appearance on “The Late Show” with host Joan Rivers! How about that horn section?

The JERSEY BOYS national tour production opens Wednesday at the Orpheum Theater in Omaha! World-Herald staff writer Bob Fischbach has a marvelous preview feature about the hit show that includes reflections from creative team geniuses writers Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice, original Four Seasons’ member Bob Gaudio, and director Des McAnuff. Below is a sneak [...]

I don’t know about you guys, but the “Cry For Me” scene & musical number is one of my very favorite parts of JERSEY BOYS & of course, on the OBCR! Well, check out Frankie Valli’s amazing version of this song. Turns out it was the B side of the 1966 single “You’re Ready Now”!

On August 26, 1978, Frankie Valli hit Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart with “Grease,” the theme song from the blockbuster movie. This hit, written by Barry Gibb, remained atop the chart for two consecutive weeks.

“Swing The Jingle” was an ambitious mid ’60s Coca Cola advertising project. The idea was to have the pop and soul artists of the day sing the “Things Go Better with Coca-Cola” jingle. The song was always written and performed in the style of the particular performing artist so that young people would identify and [...]

If you were already a fan of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons back in 1975, you may remember all of their television appearances! In fact, they were ubiquitous on the tube! I can’t tell you how many times I attempted to tape them on my not so state-of-the-art audio cassette recorder! Throughout the year, [...]

During the summer of 1966, The Four Seasons released their second single, “On The Goodship Lollipop” under the name “The Wonder Who.” The song peaked at #87 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and remained on the chart for three weeks. “On the Goodship Lollipop” was from the 1934 movie “Bright Eyes” that starred Shirley Temple. Now, [...]

Quinn VanAntwerp, Joseph Leo Bwarie, Matt Bailey, Steve Gouveia and the Company of Jersey Boys (Photo Credit: Joan Marcus) With the JERSEY BOYS national tour beginning a Milwaukee run of the musical Wednesday through Aug. 14, Jim Higgins of the Journal Sentinel has a feature story that includes an interview with legendary Bob Gaudio. Here’s [...]

Forty-seven years ago today, on July 18, 1964, “Rag Doll” became The Four Seasons’ fourth Number One single on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. The song, written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio, remained a chart-topper for two consecutive weeks.

This video clip features Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons singing “Silence Is Golden” at a 1992 recorded concert. Time for some Friday Flashback Four Seasons trivia: “Silence Is Golden,” a song co-written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio, was featured on the B-side of what Four Seasons big hit back in 1964? In 1967, [...]

Click HERE to check out Bob Gaudio’s radio interview with Dee Perry! Bob talks about his early days with The Royal Teens, becoming one of The Four Seasons, the famous handshake between Bob & Frankie, the British invasion, the success of JERSEY BOYS, and more!

We would like to wish the legendary Original Four Seasons member Tommy DeVito a very Happy 83rd Birthday today!

In this video, The Four Seasons: Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito, Joe Long, and Frankie Valli, are performing “Working My Way Back to You” on “Hullabaloo.” This song, written by Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell, peaked at #9 in the spring of 1966 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Trivia question: What R&B vocal group released [...]

It’s hard to believe that it’s been over FIVE years since we were all celebrating Jersey Boys’ EIGHT Tony Award nominations! Jersey Boys’ Tony Award Nominations Best Musical Best Book of a Musical–Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical–John Lloyd Young Best Performance by a Featured Actor in [...]

In JERSEY BOYS, Frankie Valli describes “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” as the “song that almost never saw the light of day sells three million copies…” The Grammy-nominated song peaked at #2 on the Hot 100 Billboard chart during the summer of 1967. In this 1967 video clip, Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons [...]