Jersey Boys Blog

Pat Craig of ContraCostaTimes.com provides some interesting factoids about the Four Seasons. Did you know these facts about the four blue-collar guys from New Jersey? THE SEASONS, in a much different configuration, and called the Four Lovers, had their first taste of fame in 1956, when they appeared on “The Ed Sullivan Show” to sing [...]

The tech half of JBB has discovered a way to embed a Flash music player within the pages of Jersey Boys Blog. Click on the Tommy DeVito CD Samples link to hear 30-second previews of Tommy’s new CD entitled, “A Man for All Seasons: First Season Summer.”

Jersey Boys Blog has created the More Four Seasons Videos page, thanks to all of the great videos available on YouTube.com. The page includes clips of Frankie Valli getting “pied” on the “Soupy Sales Show” in 1980, and Valli singing “Swearin’ to God” and “My Eyes Adored You” on “Cher” in 1975.

The Star-Telegram’s Malcolm Mayhew’s review of Thursday night’s Frankie Valli concert at the Nokia Theater shows that Valli is still the extraordinary showman after more than five decades in the business. On Thursday night at Nokia Theatre Valli, the New Jersey-born singer and one-time “Sopranos” star, performed with a full band, 10 players strong — [...]

Pat Craig, of InsideBayArea.com provides a detailed look at of Jersey Boys, one of the most remarkably successful musicals to come along in years. The show, about the on- and offstage lives of The Four Seasons, has been running on Broadway for more than a year, and it opens its San Francisco run on Sunday [...]

Check out this Youtube.com video clip of Frankie Valli singing “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” on the Mike Douglas Show in 1967!

Tommy DeVito has a new CD entitled “A Man of All Seasons: 1st Season, Summer” that features Italian folk and similar-style instrumentals. It is available for purchase on Tommy’s website: tommydevito.com.

San Francisco Chronicle’s Joel Selvin has an amazingly in-depth interview with the legendary Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio, the original Four Seasons who have been business partners for more than 45 years. The two men talk about their lives; their phenomenal success in the music business; and the Tony Award-winning Broadway smash hit Jersey Boys [...]

Dayton City Paper’s Russell Florence, Jr. has a fascinating interview with Michael Ingersoll, who plays Nick Massi in Jersey Boys national tour. When Kettering native Ingersoll took on the starring role in a recent Chicago production of Tick, Tick… Boom!, Chicago Sun-Times critic Hedy Weiss offered a bit of sound advice that would inadvertently catapult [...]

In today’s New York Post, gossip columnist Cindy Adams has a tidbit about Frankie Valli: FRANKIE Valli’s four recent Lincoln Center shots included an onstage drop-in from the Jersey Boys. The engagement was SRO. Before this hotshot show about his life hit Broadway, Frankie – whom everyone loved but nobody was booking – might’ve had [...]

Off Broadway’s Altar Boyz had a special guest backstage when one of the original Jersey Boys, Frankie Valli, paid the cast a visit. Altar Boyz’ Landon Beard toured with Valli prior to joining the Altar Boyz cast. Check out the backstage photo from Playbill.com!

Reuters.com’s Frank Scheck noted that if the audience could have moved fast enough, they would have experienced a bizarre show business form of double vision Wednesday night in New York. That’s because Jersey Boys, the hit musical depicting the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, was playing on Broadway, while the real thing [...]

Check out this mid-’60s TVParty.com video clip of a Beechnut Gum commercial starring the Four Seasons!

On November 17, 1962, “Big Girls Don’t Cry” by the Four Seasons hit Number One on the Billboard charts and remained at the top of the charts for FIVE consecutive weeks from November 17, 1962-December 21, 1962. The song became a certified gold single by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Source: Joel Whitburn’s [...]

The Sun-Sentinel reports that Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Frankie Valli will be this year’s Winterfest Boat Parade grand marshal in Southern Florida. This year’s parade theme will be “Broadway on the Waterway.” The parade will begin at 6:30 p.m. December 16 and will include up to 100 decorated vessels. They will glide north [...]

Columbus Dispatch’s Aaron Beck has an interesting Q&A segment with the legendary Frankie Valli, who will be performing in concert at the Palace Theatre in Columbus on Friday, November 10. Beck talks to Valli about growing up in Newark; his life as a young, struggling singer; his phenomenal success with the Four Seasons, and of [...]

Star-Ledger reporter Jay Lustig recaps Frankie Valli’s benefit concert this past Thursday night at Newark’s New Jersey Performing Arts Center that raised $400,000 for the Boys and Girls Clubs of New Jersey. Lustig notes that Valli was raised in Newark and performed in local clubs before putting together one of the greatest pop vocal groups [...]

Washington Times reporter Jennifer Crier Johnston notes that it was “all amore and more amore” at Saturday’s National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) gala at the Washington Hilton, the only venue in town that can host 3,000 people for a sit-down dinner. Original Jersey Boy Frankie Valli was among this year’s NIAF award recipients, along with [...]

President Bush made a surprise appearance Friday night at the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) dinner show featuring Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Here’s what Bush had to say about honoree Valli: And I understand you’re honoring Frankie Valli. Sorry I’m not going to be around to hear you. But rest assured I’ve heard [...]