The Four Seasons’ Distinctive Sound
June 15th, 2008Cleveland is getting ready for Jersey Boys, which begins at Playhouse Square on Wednesday! Cleveland.com’s John Soebel has a terrific feature on the distinctive sound of The Four Seasons.
Soebel’s introduction to The Four Seasons was a television commercial for a best-of compilation. Against a montage of performance clips, a list of song titles scrolled up the screen of the black-and-white Zenith in his family room. He states,
The hooks were so well-crafted, it only took a few seconds until the listener was hooked, too. If you could somehow extract all the head-over-heels romance, end-of-the-world heartache and teenage drama the Four Seasons managed to cram into any given single, you could fuel an entire season of, say, “One Tree Hill.”
Read the whole article on Cleveland.com.
The Four Seasons, to me, will always be the best group of the 1960′s and 1970′s. The fact that the musical about their lives is going on a world-wide tour says a lot about their impact on the music industry. Cleveland, you’re gonna love Jersey Boys! Chicago sure does.
Comment by Beth L. — June 16, 2008 @ 1:41 pm
Was the commercial referred to by Mr. Soebel the Longines Symphonette compilation? I remember that commercial. I got that years later in a used record abd book store.
Comment by Ted Hammond — June 16, 2008 @ 10:44 pm