Comments on: Video of ‘Hickory’ by The Four Seasons! http://jerseyboysblog.com/video-of-hickory-by-the-four-seasons/4398 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 Hammond http://jerseyboysblog.com/video-of-hickory-by-the-four-seasons/4398/comment-page-1#comment-608409 Ted Hammond Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:40:27 +0000 http://jerseyboysblog.com/video-of-hickory-by-the-four-seasons/4398#comment-608409 Stubbleyou, the UK FV4S fan site has some discussions about their Motown Years. As we are only now discovering, the Four Seasons were a great influence on Berry Gordy, Jr., who was apparently a huge secret fan. He wanted to recreate the Four Seasons’ 1960s success into a hit making machine for the 1970s. But apparently, others at Motown weren’t that committed to the project.

Bob Crewe and Kenny Nolan captured some of the early FV4S musical hooks and lyrical themes in “Hickory” and other songs. The struggle for success is a big lyrical theme in “Hickory”, like it was in “Big Man In Town”, and many of the tracks on the “Working My Way Back To You” Album. Billy Joel also captures the that socioeconomic difference in “Uptown Girl”, in which Billy Joel decides to pursue the higher class girl rather than to discourage her like in “Dawn (Go Away)”. So that eplains the similarity between the two songs.

]]> By: stubbleyou http://jerseyboysblog.com/video-of-hickory-by-the-four-seasons/4398/comment-page-1#comment-608291 stubbleyou Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:20:48 +0000 http://jerseyboysblog.com/video-of-hickory-by-the-four-seasons/4398#comment-608291 “This downtown guy feels like uptown new.”

Do you think maybe Billy Joel heard this song?

]]> By: Ted Hammond http://jerseyboysblog.com/video-of-hickory-by-the-four-seasons/4398/comment-page-1#comment-608121 Ted Hammond Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:56:20 +0000 http://jerseyboysblog.com/video-of-hickory-by-the-four-seasons/4398#comment-608121 Here’s another FV4S cover song I never knew about, but would really like to hear. It’s “Hickory” by King Harvest, the group that captured the essence of a slightly earlier era Hot 100 sound in 1973 with “Dancing In The Moonlight”.

]]> By: Ted Hammond http://jerseyboysblog.com/video-of-hickory-by-the-four-seasons/4398/comment-page-1#comment-300669 Ted Hammond Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:36:12 +0000 http://jerseyboysblog.com/video-of-hickory-by-the-four-seasons/4398#comment-300669 “Patch Of Blue” was written by Mike Petrillo and “Chubby” Cifelli. It’s easy to remember if you think of the blue skies following “Tell It To The Rain”, which was also written by Petrillo and Cifelli.

It charted as high as #15 on WIBM Jackson, MI.

http://las-solanas.com/arsa/charts_item.php?hsid=8248

Mike Petrillo was that great saxophonist on “Opus 17″ and I suspect also the saxophonist on the first charted album track of “Can’t Get Enough Of You Baby” on the Four Seasons’ WMYBTY LP.

]]> By: Susie http://jerseyboysblog.com/video-of-hickory-by-the-four-seasons/4398/comment-page-1#comment-300665 Susie Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:14:19 +0000 http://jerseyboysblog.com/video-of-hickory-by-the-four-seasons/4398#comment-300665 Richard, “Patch of Blue” was on the Hot 100 for two weeks in 1970 & peaked at #94.

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