~~Tunes For The Troops~~ |
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~~Tunes For The Troops~~ |
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Where were you? I was a junior at a third-rate Catholic prep school in New Jersey that had pretensions to being first-rate. Our principal was a priest who was flamboyantly effeminate; we called him “Mabel” behind his back. The vice principal, nicknamed “Pudge”, was a priest from Brooklyn who believed in JFK, LBJ, FDR – and GOD, in that order.
So what were you up to?
Cue the Rockumentary theme!
This band was simply Motown’s Funk Brothers backed with pickup musicians from the Detroit Symphony.
Bob Crewe had written “Silhouettes” for the Rays in the Fifties and had rung the cash register when he and bass man Bob Gaudio produced and wrote for the Four Seasons. This song was written by Crewe and Eddie Rambeau, who would have a hit of his own a year later. I talked to Joe Labriscia of the Four Seasons in 1971 about Crewe’s contributions to recording a song. He said that Crewe would walk in, make about 30 seconds worth of suggestions, and then walk out. But Crewe’s suggestions were exactly what the situation required. He was a professional.
This was Diane Renay’s only hit. She was just 17.