Jersey Boys: Jersey Girl

To mark the UK release today of the Clint Eastwood-directed Jersey Boys, here's those street tuff Italian-American lads back in the day performing a medley of some of their top hits.

I guess you'd have to be pretty tough to get away with that falsetto in New Jersey in the 50s.

Fagburn hasn't seen it, but apparently the Four Seasons' lyricist and producer, Bob Crewe, is granted a fleeting and distinctly flitty few minutes in this story of their rise and fall.

Which is kinda cruelly fitting for a man so often written out of Rock and Pop history.

Crewe also gave us Silhouettes, The Toys' A Lovers' Concerto, Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels, the Barbarella soundtrack, The Walker Brothers' The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore, Music To Watch Girls By, Silence Is Golden, Bay City Rollers' Bye Bye Baby, Can't Take My Eyes Off You, LaBelle's Lady Marmalade, Disco-Tex & The Sex-O-Lettes, and Frankie Valli's My Eyes Adored You.

Verily, he is the gayer Gerry Goffin.

Probably.

Have a seasonal weekend.
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PS The reviews are all a bit 'meh', so I wouldn't rush out to see it.