Fact #19974
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Short story:
The Four Seasons new single, Big Girls Don't Cry, on Vee-Jay Records, enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA, destined for the No1 slot.
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Bob Crewe (producer) : After Sherry hit, we didn't know what the hell to follow it up with. I was up late one night in my apartment, worrying and watching a dreadful movie, I think it was with John Payne and some blonde bombshell. I had been drinking out of desperation and I was drifting in and out of sleep. I woke up at one point and Payne was smacking the blonde across the face and knocked her on her bottom. He said something like, 'Well, whaddaya think of that, baby?' She gets up, straightens her dress, pushes her hair back, stares at him and says, 'Big Girls Don't Cry,' and storms out the door. I ran and jotted down the line. The next day Bob (Gaudio) and I knocked out the song and, of course, it was a hit.
Bob Gaudio (Four Seasons) : I don't feel it was the freshest follow-up. After the success of Sherry we had to follow it up with something vaguely similar. The harmonies were structured differently, a little bigger.
Elliot Randall (guitarist, Steely Dan) : Bob Crewe, back in the early '60s did all The Four Seasons things. A madman, total madman, brilliant man. But his records are not the artist's records, they're Bob Crewe records.
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Bob Gaudio (Four Seasons) : I don't feel it was the freshest follow-up. After the success of Sherry we had to follow it up with something vaguely similar. The harmonies were structured differently, a little bigger.
Elliot Randall (guitarist, Steely Dan) : Bob Crewe, back in the early '60s did all The Four Seasons things. A madman, total madman, brilliant man. But his records are not the artist's records, they're Bob Crewe records.
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