Comments on: Friday Flashback: The Four Seasons’ First Single

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:34:42 +0000

It’s remarkable to hear these songs and think that just a short time later they would introduce “Sherry”.

While “Bermuda/Spanish Lace” were good songs you can’t
begin to compare the style to that new sound which featured that piercing falsetto and harmony behind that “Hey Baby” beat which was “Sherry”.

Amazing that they saved their best performance as a last-ditch effort before, perhaps, packing it in.

By: Ted Hammond

Ted Hammond — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:40:45 +0000

There were several other songs in that era that captured that Southwest/Spanish theme, stubbleyou. The biggest was “El Paso” by Marty Robbins, and of course “Come A Little Bit Closer” by Jay and the Amercians, “Heroes And Villains” by The Beach Boys, and of course the other one by The Four Seasons, “New Mexican Rose”.

By: stubbleyou

stubbleyou — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:01:22 +0000

I remember a different “Spanish Lace” by the recently-departed Gene McDaniels from the same era. Odd that there would be two songs of the same title at the same time, no?

By: stubbleyou

stubbleyou — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 02:43:08 +0000

Speaking of the early days in New York, I just heard this jingle for Cousin Brucie for the first time - I love it! Am I the only one who hasn't heard it before?

By: Ted Hammond

Ted Hammond — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 01:20:21 +0000

Still no more charts found for this single. But WNHC also played “Electric Stories”. Since the charts are incomplete, it’s unclear how high it charted. At least #29.