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Post by millring on Dec 21, 2014 10:49:04 GMT -5
I suffered through it last night. I guess in the long run I'm glad I watched it to the end because the only redeeming thing of the whole 2 hour movie was the dance over the credits at the end.
If Frankie Valli had sounded as bad as John Lloyd Young, the Four Seasons wouldn't have had their first hit, much less a near dozen of 'em. And, really, the only reason I rented the movie in the first place was because if figured the music had to be good. It wasn't. Not even. Ick.
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Post by patrick on Dec 21, 2014 12:49:16 GMT -5
I saw this live a number of years ago downtown (Kennedy Center?)
I really liked it, but that wasn't the movie.
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Post by drlj on Dec 21, 2014 12:57:38 GMT -5
We saw the play in Chicago and loved every minute of it. The singing and music were top notch. It was of my favorite plays. I read reviews that said the movie did not hold a candle to the play but I have never seen the movie.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2014 13:02:48 GMT -5
Did it have this one? I like it more than most of their other stuff.
Edit - Oh What a Night is quite catchy too.
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Post by millring on Dec 21, 2014 13:05:04 GMT -5
If any good came of it, it was in my hour or so reading up on Gaudio. Holy crap, what a talented guy. That seems like the very kind of music history and trivia that would have come to my attention years ago, but it hadn't. The little line of his (his character's) at the end of the movie ... "...none of this would have happened without me", had me googling away to see if he really did write all the hits. Yup. And then some. I had no idea he (and not Valli) was the real talent of the "band". Not that I assumed Valli had written the material -- just that I always assumed without looking that it was sort of a studio deal -- staff writers and such.
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Post by drlj on Dec 21, 2014 14:21:05 GMT -5
Oh what a Night was a feature of the play. I loved how they used all the proper period guitars throughout. There were lots of beautiful guitars featured. Until I saw the play, I had forgotten how all over the radio those guys were for so long.
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Post by millring on Dec 21, 2014 14:29:34 GMT -5
There were a few anachronisms in the movie -- the one that comes immediately to mind was seeing them give a "high five". It was a particularly egregious anachronism because of just how common the "low five" (gimme five -- not "low" because "high" was not yet a thing) was at the time.
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Post by RickW on Dec 21, 2014 19:20:34 GMT -5
I keep thinking I want to watch this, but perhaps not. My wife is not interested. I'm always interested in pretty much anything about bands and the music biz.
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Post by RickW on Dec 21, 2014 19:25:04 GMT -5
And just to show Gaudio's reach:
"In addition to his work for the Seasons and Sinatra, he wrote and/or produced for Michael Jackson, Barry Manilow, Diana Ross, Eric Carmen, Nancy Sinatra, Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack. In particular, he produced six complete albums for Neil Diamond, and the movie soundtrack albums for Diamond's The Jazz Singer and Little Shop of Horrors. Gaudio also produced the mega-hit "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" for Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond, a duet that reached the top of Billboard charts in 1978, for which he received a Grammy Award nomination."
Nice body of work.
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