Comments on: Frankie Valli’s Reflections on Detroit, JB, and His Career http://jerseyboysblog.com/frankie-vallis-reflections-on-detroit-jb-and-his-career/4518 Dedicated to Jersey Boys, the Tony Award-winning smash hit Broadway & international musical of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Tue, 23 Jan 2018 04:11:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ted Hammond http://jerseyboysblog.com/frankie-vallis-reflections-on-detroit-jb-and-his-career/4518/comment-page-1#comment-309887 Ted Hammond Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:04:23 +0000 http://jerseyboysblog.com/frankie-vallis-reflections-on-detroit-jb-and-his-career/4518#comment-309887 I’ve done a little more research on early charts and radio airplay of “Sherry”.

The ARSA site does not have many R&B format station charts, so I cannot say for sure that “Sherry” could not have been played on R&B stations around Detroit and Chicago before hitting the Top 40 charts. Maybe Frankie Valli remembers what other stations they visited, and if some were primarily R&B stations. “Sherry”, of course, was also #1 on the R&B Billboard charts (See Whitburn Publications).

http://las-solanas.com/arsa/charts_item.php?hsid=13650

The first chart shown, with “Sherry” debuting at #16, is for WHYN Springfield, Massachusetts for the 8-11-62 chart. It is shown on the 8-24-62 WPOP Hartford, CT chart at #1 for the second week. That would put airplay back at least a couple of weeks to about the same date as the WHYN debut. The ARSA charts are kind of hit and miss at this point. Radio insiders claim that Joey Reynolds broke “Sherry” on WPOP Hartford, at least as far as Top 40 radio is concerned.

The musicradio77.com site for WABC shows “Sherry” debuting at #4 on the 8-21-62 chart and for WMCA debuting at #4 on the 8-22-62 chart. Airplay on those would probably then date to around 8-14-62.

]]> By: Ted Hammond http://jerseyboysblog.com/frankie-vallis-reflections-on-detroit-jb-and-his-career/4518/comment-page-1#comment-309794 Ted Hammond Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:49:46 +0000 http://jerseyboysblog.com/frankie-vallis-reflections-on-detroit-jb-and-his-career/4518#comment-309794 I’m curious about the statement that “Sherry” first broke in Detroit, in the Susan Whitall article. That’s one I never heard before. I heard Hartford, CT, and of course, New York City. I’m wondering now if maybe some of the Detroit R&B stations like WJLB and WCHB, and WGES Chicago and some of the Vee Jay hometown stations in Gary, Indiana were on it first because of it being on the Vee Jay label. I know when McLendon changed WGES to WYNR, they were playing “Big Girls Don’t Cry” in very high rotation. By 1963, I have no doubt that stations in Flint and Detroit were breaking Four Seasons records.

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