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Robert Stanley Crewe (November 12, 1930 – September 11, 2014) was an American songwriter, dancer, singer, manager, and record producer. Crewe co-wrote and produced a string of Top 10 singles with Bob Gaudio for the Four Seasons .
Bob Gaudio: 1 1 13 1988: The Four Seasons, #91 UK (reissue) 1963 "Walk Like a Man" The Four Seasons Bob Gaudio: 1 3 12 1985: Divine, #23 UK 1986: The Mary Jane Girls, #41 pop, #91 R&B "Don't Mention My Name" The Shepherd Sisters: Bob Gaudio: 94 - - "Whatever You Want" Jerry Butler: Bob Gaudio: 68 - - "Soon (I'll Be Home Again) " The Four ...
Frank Conley Slay Jr. (July 8, 1930 – September 30, 2017) was an American songwriter, A&R director, record producer, and record label owner. He wrote with Bob Crewe in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the partnership's most successful songs including "Silhouettes", a hit for several artists including The Rays and Herman's Hermits, "Daddy Cool", and "Tallahassee Lassie".
A newly published book, “Bob Crewe: Sight and Sound: Compositions in Art and Music” by Donald Albrecht, Jessica May, Andrew Loog Oldham, Peter Plagens (Rizzoli Electa) helps illuminate Crewe ...
Robert John Gaudio (born November 17, 1942) is an American songwriter, singer, musician, and record producer, and the keyboardist and backing vocalist of the pop/rock band the Four Seasons. Gaudio wrote or co-wrote the vast majority of the band's music, including hits like " Sherry " and " December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) ", as well as " Can't ...
By 1960 The Four Lovers consisted of DeVito, Valli, Gaudio and vocal arranger Nick Massi, and were mainly used as a backup band for producer Bob Crewe under contract. This is the lineup which adopted the name "The Four Seasons" (billed numerically as the 4 Seasons on most of their early albums), named after a bowling alley in Union, New Jersey ...
In 2014, he portrayed songwriter and record producer Bob Crewe in the film of the hit musical Jersey Boys, based on the story of Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons. [7] He also appeared in the music video " I Wanna Get Better " by Jack Antonoff 's band Bleachers , alongside Retta .
The Detroit Wheels were an American rock band, formed in Detroit in 1964. They served as Mitch Ryder's backup band from 1964 to 1967.. The band had a number of top twenty hits in the mid-1960s before lead singer Ryder was enticed away by Bob Crewe with offers of a solo career, after which the group quickly dissolved.