Bob Gaudio
Bob Gaudio (born November 17, 1942 in New York City , New York ) is an American singer , keyboardist , songwriter and music producer , who was best known as a member of the band The Four Seasons .
Life
Bob Gaudio grew up in the Bronx and was a teenager playing the piano in the pop group The Royal Teens , previously called The Royal Tones , until they discovered that there was already an instrumental group of the same name. In 1958, the band had a number 3 hit with short shorts , which was composed by Gaudio. After the band split in 1960, he joined the Four Seasons, which were completely unknown at the time.
That changed suddenly in 1963 with the hit single Sherry ; this song also comes from Gaudio's pen. Together with Bob Crewe , the producer of the Four Seasons, he wrote a number of hits for the band in the 1960s, including Big Girls Don't Cry , Walk Like a Man , Ronnie , Rag Doll , Save It for Me , Let's Hang On and Working My Way back to You . Many of her compositions were later successfully covered by other performers, such as Silence Is Golden from the Tremeloes , The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore from the Walker Brothers and Bye Bye Baby (Baby, Goodbye) from the Bay City Rollers . In 1967 Gaudio and Crewe composed Can't Take My Eyes Off You , which became a solo hit for Frankie Valli , lead singer of the Four Seasons.
In 1968 Crewe was fired, after which Gaudio became the producer of the Four Seasons. He began his songs along with Jake Holmes to write, from which the Psychedelic - concept album The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette emerged. This ended the commercial success of the Four Seasons. Gaudio began to concentrate more on producing and composing. In the early 1970s he worked with Frank and Nancy Sinatra , Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye , among others . In 1974 he stopped performing in public, but continued to work with the Four Seasons. In 1975 he wrote Who Loves You for the band , which became a hit and ushered in a comeback for the band. He wrote the following hit in 1963 (Oh What a Night) together with his future wife Judy Parker .
Gaudio later produced albums by Michael Jackson , Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond . In 1984 he founded the record label FBI Records with Frankie Valli .
In 2005, Gaudio (music) and Crewe (lyrics) co-wrote the musical Jersey Boys , which is dedicated to the story of The Four Seasons . It ran successfully on Broadway and as part of a US tour and later in London, Las Vegas, Chicago, Toronto, Melbourne and Singapore. The piece won four prizes at the 2006 Tony Awards , including one for the best musical . In 2013, the film of the same name followed, directed by Clint Eastwood , in which Gaudio is played by Erich Bergen .
He is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Four Seasons.
Web links
- Bob Gaudio at Discogs (English)
- Bob Gaudio at Allmusic (English)
- Bob Gaudio in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jersey Boys . ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: tonyawards.com, accessed June 20, 2014
- ↑ Box office / business for Jersey Boys - Filming Dates. In: IMDb . Retrieved July 31, 2014 .
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| SURNAME | Gaudio, Bob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American singer, songwriter, keyboardist, and record producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 17, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City , New York, United States |