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Name: Shattered
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Subject: RE: RE: Frankie Valli & the 4 Seasons (nsc)
Date: Monday, May 21, 2018
Time: 11:23:50 AM
Remote Address: 97.107.69.29
Message ID: 315862
Parent ID: 315858
Thread ID: 315851

RE: RE: Frankie Valli & the 4 Seasons (nsc)

Oh they're not really the 4 Seasons, I totally agree.

Most of Billy's "An Innocent Man" album pays homages to the early Rock 'n Roll era, but UG is 100% inspiration Billy drew from Frankie and The Four Seasons. He has stated that he wrote UG as an inverted "Rag Doll", on the Howard Stern show. I don't listen to HS, I just did some research.

Okay so Billy's lyrics were intended to be a "flip side" of Rag Doll, but I proclaim that the STYLE of the song has "Big Man's World" written all over it. Why do I think that TV show had something to do with it? Because it was impossible for him to have heard BMW on the radio -- it was an album cut. It had to be the TV show, as those Beatles songs and those few NON-Beatles songs (like BMW) were in rotation.

Wow! I just found out about this seconds ago while trying to find direct quotes from BJ himself about the 4S inspiration == Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons sang the song (UG) at the Grammy Legend Award ceremony honoring Billy and others in 1991. \uD83D\uDE32 I didn't know that (then again I don't pay attention to awards shows. They're stupid.) \uD83E\uDD21

Here's a treat - a piece of rare footage of the group as THE FOUR LOVERS on the Ed Sullivan show in 1956 performing "You`re The Apple Of My Eyes". What energy! Nick Massi and Bob Gaudio weren't in the group yet.

That is some performance! I wonder who's doing that awesome guitar solo.

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