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The Dells' original 1956 recording on the Vee-Jay label peaked at #4 on the R&B singles chart. In 1969, they refashioned it as a soul song on the Cadet label. The August 2, 1969 edition of Record World gave it a "Four Star Pick" review, stating: "This old, old, old, oldie sounds newer than tomorrow, via the Dells chartbreaker express. All will ...
In the following year, 1969, The Dells' soulful remake of their debut hit, "Oh What a Night" gave the group their second chart-topping R&B single and also reached the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100. For a second time, the song sold over a million copies. [6] Subsequent hits included "Open Up My Heart", "Oh What a Day", and "On the Dock of the ...
The Dells — — Chess: 1984 Breezy Ballads & Tender Tunes — — Solid Smoke 1992 On Their Corner: The Best of the Dells — — Chess 1993 Dreams of Contentment — — Vee-Jay: 1994 Oh, What a Night — — MCA: 1995 Passionate Breezes: The Best of the Dells 1975-1991 — — Mercury: 1996 Bring Back the Love: Classic Dells Soul ...
According to the co-writer and longtime group member Bob Gaudio, the song's lyrics were originally set in 1933 with the title "December 5th, 1933", celebrating the repeal of Prohibition, [6] but after the band revolted against what Gaudio would admit was a "silly" lyric being paired with an instrumental groove they knew would be a hit, [7] Parker, who had not written a song lyric before by ...
"Oh What a Night" (Guano Apes song), 2011 " December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) ", a song by the Four Seasons, 1975 "Oh What a Night", a song by Elle Varner from Perfectly Imperfect , 2012
Jersey Boys is a jukebox musical with a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. It is presented in a documentary-style format that dramatizes the formation, success and breakup of the 1960s rock 'n' roll group The Four Seasons. The musical is structured as four "seasons", each narrated by a different member of the band who gives his own ...
Writing for Renowned for Sound, Angus Fitz-Bugden commented "While it’s a little difficult to adequately review a motion picture soundtrack when it’s divorced from the plot of the film/theater show itself, as a standalone collection, the Jersey Boys soundtrack serves as a pretty great introduction to one of popular music’s greatest entities as performed by the group themselves and those ...
After leaving the Four Seasons, he returned to college at Montclair State University in New Jersey and, at the age of 43, began a teaching career at New Providence Middle School. He also performed with the band he co-founded in 2007, 'The Hit Men' — fellow members included his former bandmates in The Four Seasons, Lee Shapiro and Don Ciccone .