Comments on: Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons and Jersey Boys Red Hot on Billboard Chart!

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 13:32:28 +0000

As they might say in NJ, Che’? Or in S. CA, Que’? Maybe I had too much coffee, or maybe I’m overanalyzing the question Ray asked, like the many licensed professionals who post here are trained and tend to do. If the question is, did FV4S have a Hot 100 appearance in the 2000s, then the answer is no. If you mean any chart, any remake using original tracks, in any country in the world, the answer is yes. And that in any event, any Billboard chart appearances stretching from 1956 to 2014 is phenomenal. Perhaps that explains it better.

By: stubbleyou

stubbleyou — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 02:31:24 +0000

Ted –

You’re not from around here, are you?

By: Ted

Ted — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 05:01:18 +0000

I can’t remember if Fred Bronson is still writing a column like that. He excitedly covered the first chart single hit to chart for “Four Seasons”, “December, 1963 (Oh What A Night)”, combining 27 weeks in 1975-1976, and 27 weeks in 1994-1995. Has any other chart entry entered in four different years to this day? And is it stretching it to consider it to be the same recording, as some tracks were used, but not others?

By: Ted

Ted — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 04:53:00 +0000

I think you really had to stretch the rules for there to have been a 2000s chart entry, Ray. Seems like the first remix of “Beggin’”, the “Piloosky” edit, charted in Europe but not the US, and the Madcon cover charted with it in the US, but the best you could have had there was instrumental track sampling, and I got the impression the instrumental tracks were identically arranged but rerecorded rather than sampled. That said, it is phenomenal by any measure to have had chart hits of any kind on any chart, single or album or whatever, from 1956 to 2014, which is now over 58 years. I’m trying to think of others who have had that long of a run. I think you would have to go way back to Whitburn’s 1890-1954 Pop Memories book artist by artist to answer the question. Maybe there’s still a column in Billboard that we might want to follow, if the “young-uns” are even inclined to notice. History doesn’t seem that important to kids today.

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:53:55 +0000

Correct me if I’m wrong but is this now the seventh straight decade that Frankie Valli has charted in some form?

Must be some type of record.