Did You Know This About the Four Seasons?
December 10th, 2006Pat Craig of ContraCostaTimes.com provides some interesting factoids about the Four Seasons. Did you know these facts about the four blue-collar guys from New Jersey?
- THE SEASONS, in a much different configuration, and called the Four Lovers, had their first taste of fame in 1956, when they appeared on “The Ed Sullivan Show” to sing their hit record, “You’re the Apple of My Eye.”
- AFTER USING SUCH MONIKERS as the Four Lovers, the Romans and the Topix, the band picked its final moniker from the 4 Seasons, a cocktail lounge at a Union, N.J., bowling alley.
- BETWEEN 1955 AND 1995, the Seasons had 40 songs in the Billboard Top 40, putting them at No. 8 of all time. They’ve had 7 No. 1 tunes, with 21 total weeks at No. 1, and 19 songs in the Top 10.
- THEIR BIGGEST HIT came long after the band’s heyday, in December 1975, when “December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night),” hit No. 1 and stayed for three weeks. It spent 27 weeks on the charts. (**This song actually hit #1 on 3/13/1976, and remained in that position for three weeks!)
- FOUR SEASONS SONG TITLES often reflect things that were going on in their lives, but one came from a John Payne B-movie, where a character slaps a girl and asks “What do you think of that?” She picks herself up, stares at him and says “Big girls don’t cry.”
- TWO OF THE SEASONS, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi, served time at New Jersey’s Rahway Correctional Facility.
- IN 1990, the Seasons were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
I think any real fan of the Four Season would know all of this.
I found a clip of the Four Lovers performing “You’re the Apple of My Eye”, but it was deleted.
Comment by Jack Griffin — December 11, 2006 @ 12:03 am