Comments on: Friday Flashback: Late ’60s Video Interview with Frankie Valli & Bob Gaudio!

By: stubbleyou

stubbleyou — Sat, 17 May 2014 14:05:36 +0000

Thanks, Ray – very interesting!

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 15 May 2014 20:16:34 +0000

Billy Fields was their manager around this time. He was famous for co-sponsoring the first Rolling Stones concert in America.

Fred Weintraub (interviewer)was also a promoter and has quite a history of discovering acts and suggesting
people getting together to form bands etc. (Worth a look on Wiki).

The Bitter End was quite a hang out for hundreds of known artists, producers, promoters and up and coming stars.

It was here that Gaudio met Jake Holmes that subsequently led to their collaboration on Genuine Imitation Life Gazette and Sinatra’s Watertown.

I guess it was the place to be!

By: stubbleyou

stubbleyou — Thu, 15 May 2014 08:16:17 +0000

Who is Billy Fields?

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 13 May 2014 12:10:51 +0000

The owner, interviewer and founder of the “Bitter End”
here is Fred Weintraub.

By: Johnny Hornsby

Johnny Hornsby — Mon, 12 May 2014 20:47:35 +0000

I have seen the performance of To Give that follows this interview, but it’s the first time I’ve ever seen the interview itself. Just from memory, I think it may have been a performance from a club called The Bitter End. I have an old set of VHS music performances from that venue, and it may have been included there. I’m not familiar with the interviewer or the name of the person that Frankie and Bob reference in the interview.