Posted on 12/30/2022 6:34:31 PM PST by simpson96
"Dawn (Go Away)" is a song written by Bob Gaudio and Sandy Linzer and recorded by The Four Seasons in November, 1963. The song hit No. 3 in the early part of 1964.
Tall dude, Bob Gaudio, didn’t like performing so he later moved to the back room. Love this bunch!
Good song.
Four Seasons was the first “rock” concert I ever went to. IBM Country Club in Endicott, NY. Around 1967, I guess. My favorite group still.
Thank you for rekindling a memory from a much happier time.
“Dawn” is good. My favorite is “Opus 17”.
Jerry Cole, on the other hand, takes a different approach. Although he has a reputation as a bad boy, Jerry is a hard worker who sets goals and is determined to achieve them. His lover Mary is lucky to have found him for a mate.
Midnight Mary--Jerry Cole (1963)
Del Shannon’s “Sue’s Gotta Be Mine” also tells his girl to not worry what people will say, and that he’ll get a job and work every day. Several sources claim the song has a Four Seasons sound to it. I don’t hear it myself, and Del was doing falsettos before there was a Four Seasons.
You can decide:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1j8ek7Hsmo
Righteous oldie goldie!
No one claimed Del wasn’t singing, only that he was mimicking the Seasons.
You want “mimicking” the Four Seasons, it couldn’t be more blatant than Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl”.
That's how good music was back then. A song as good as this only got to number 3.
I think they were competing with a certain group from Liverpool.
Prior to renaming themselves, “The Four Seasons”, the group was called “The Four Lovers”.
Those guys from overseas were better.
The Get Back documentary was great.
I always liked “Just Walk Away Renee”. Jimmy LaFave did a nice version of it. RIP.
Weird stuff was happening on the charts in 1963. Smash hits included novelties like Allan Sherman's Camp Granada and Rolf Harris' Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport. In December, Dominique, a French-language ballad of the medieval Spanish crusader, diplomat and evangelist Domingo Felix de Guzmán sat at the top of the charts for four weeks. This was followed by a Bobby Vinton's revival of Vaughn Monroe's 1945 hit There! I've Said it again.
This odd behavior on the charts may have presaged a huge development in the world of pop music, as the next #1 song was by that band from Liverpool.
The into and Valli’s touching voice in it, I once read it described as soulful, which I thought was pretty nice, it always melts me.
I just love the 4 seasons, still.
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