Comments on: Sneak Peek of Nick Cosgrove’s Sun Times Interview! http://jerseyboysblog.com/sneak-peek-of-nick-cosgroves-sun-times-interview/6060 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 http://jerseyboysblog.com/sneak-peek-of-nick-cosgroves-sun-times-interview/6060/comment-page-1#comment-1010302 Ted Sat, 17 Aug 2013 11:38:53 +0000 http://jerseyboysblog.com/sneak-peek-of-nick-cosgroves-sun-times-interview/6060#comment-1010302 Just as a background for this lame attempt at a joke, Park Ridge is a part of Maine Township, as is Des Plaines.

Perhaps Nick Cosgrove will someday write a musical about growing up in Park Ridge. One of the musical numbers will have the line:

The Rain In Maine,
Falls Mainly On Des Plaines!

]]> By: Ted Hammond http://jerseyboysblog.com/sneak-peek-of-nick-cosgroves-sun-times-interview/6060/comment-page-1#comment-653446 Ted Hammond Sat, 19 May 2012 04:36:52 +0000 http://jerseyboysblog.com/sneak-peek-of-nick-cosgroves-sun-times-interview/6060#comment-653446 Park Ridge was where I was visiting in November, 1962 when “Big Girls Don’t Cry” was topping the charts! Chicago figured prominently in the rise of early Four Seasons songs to the top of the charts! I flipped back and forth between WLS 890, the Top 40 station, and WYNR 1390(Winner), the R & B station, and sometimes heard BGDC twice an hour! WYNR had just previously been WGES, which was one of the first stations where Vivian Carter, the “Vee” of Vee-Jay Records, had worked. Even though there had been some controversy over a recent format shift, WYNR remained a Rhythm and Blues leaning station, and the Vee Jay executives were close to the people there, and broke the Four Seasons records very early. That probably was one reason that BGDC and “Sherry” became #1 Hits on the Billboard Rhythm and Blues Charts, as well as the Hot 100.

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