Comments on: Tommy DeVito’s Insight on Four Seasons’ Songs http://jerseyboysblog.com/tommy-devitos-insight-on-four-seasons-songs/2194 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: David Cace http://jerseyboysblog.com/tommy-devitos-insight-on-four-seasons-songs/2194/comment-page-1#comment-129848 David Cace Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:25:15 +0000 http://jerseyboysblog.com/?p=2194#comment-129848 Remember Ray the 4 Seasons didn’t have a “band” with horns and additional back-up musicians until a year or so after “Opus 17″ came out. Recreation of the songs live on stage was always an issue as the musicial arrangements started to get more elaborate starting in 1966.

Tommy also gives some interesting background information on some other songs like “Bye Bye Baby” in Part 3 of his interview with Steve and Christy Holden on the JB Podcast.

]]> By: Ray Ricci http://jerseyboysblog.com/tommy-devitos-insight-on-four-seasons-songs/2194/comment-page-1#comment-129812 Ray Ricci Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:56:48 +0000 http://jerseyboysblog.com/?p=2194#comment-129812 I remember seeing the Four Seasons shortly after the release of Opus 17. Back in those days fans were allowed back stage for autographs. I asked one of them why they didn’t do the new record. I think it was
Bob who said with a chuckle “We have to learn it first” I was surprised thinking “How could that be?”

Wasn’t until the last few years that I realized that they probably didn’t even play on the recording as
explained in that wonderful Charlie Calello interview with Stuart Miller from 2001.

Tommy seems to admit here that it was a difficult song to learn for live performances.

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