I returned home from school for the Holiday Break, after a difficult month preceding finals. I flipped on the radio, tuning between my favorite night Top 40 stations, and landed on WCFL 1000 in Chicago. The song had just begun, and before it went into the first Frankie Valli solo, I knew that was it, even though it had Gerry Polci and Don Ciccone also as alternating lead vocalists. It was Saturday, December 20, 1975.

But I remember telling people it was going to be a big hit, even before I heard it.

Later, I had this repuation at school as being an expert on song titles of all artists. Not knowing that I was a huge Four Seasons fan, one of my classmates tried to stump me with “Mystic Mr. Sam”. Obviously, he didn’t.

I thought “Storybrook Lovers” and “Silver Star” were most likely to be singles. I knew that they would have to edit “Silver Star”. I tried to figure out how I would have edited it. I was suddenly but hypothetically faced with that dilemma from the later Bob Seger song “Against The Wind” about “what to leave in, what to leave out”, and I could see that it was best left to another Bob, Bob Gaudio!