Comments on: Today in Four Seasons History

By: stubbleyou

stubbleyou — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:08:08 +0000

SY, My guess to your question is â€œThe Twistâ€ by Chubby Checkerâ€¦#1 in 1960 & â€˜62â€¦Am I right?

Ding ding ding ding! Yes, Susie, of course. But who’s SY? For your prize, click on my name and I’ll show you another oddball album I have on display on my shelf that also holds the 4S’s “Sherry and 11 Others.”

Boy, you guys know a lot. The Critters! I think I actually preferred their version of “Younger Girl” to the Spoonful’s.

By: Ted Hammond

Ted Hammond — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:39:41 +0000

Post #8 was in response to stubbleyou, BTW.

Interesting that you should bring up Don Ciccone, Susie. Not only was he a member of The Critters and the Four Seasons, but later he was with Tommy James and The Shondells. Some internet accounts claim Don Ciccone is a second cousin of Madonna (Ciccone).

And what vocalist was a member of both the touring Four Seasons and the touring Beach Boys at various times? The one I’m thinking of is Adrian Baker, who had the medley “Seasons of Gold” with the group Gidea Park.

By: Ted Hammond

Ted Hammond — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:20:20 +0000

Casey Kasem worked at a little 500 watt daytime only R & B station in my hometown early in his career, and that R & B station did later play a lot of Four Seasons records, and not just the ones that hit the R & B charts. I think I have a cassette tape recorded off AT40 of Casey announcing at least one of the weeks that “December, 1963″ was #1. Unfortunately, my tapes are not well cataloged.

I’m not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV, but I don’t think that you can copyright a song title. But I would think other artists would consider using subtitles when duplicating a very popular song title to avoid confusion and out of respect for other artists’ works, which the Four Seasons did using “Oh, What A Night” as a subtitle.

By: Susie

Susie — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:12:04 +0000

SY, My guess to your question is “The Twist” by Chubby Checker…#1 in 1960 & ’62…Am I right?

By: Susie

Susie — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:11:03 +0000

Fran,
Gerry Polci was the lead on “Oh, What A Night.” (Actually, there were three vocalists–Polci, Don Ciccone (singing “I felt the rush like a rolling ball of thunder….”) and of course Frankie Valli (singing “…as I recall it ended much too soon…”).