{"id":229,"date":"2007-09-25T03:17:01","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T21:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keenerpodcast.com\/?p=229"},"modified":"2008-10-13T10:57:36","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T14:57:36","slug":"nyt-frankie-valli-is-back-in-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"NYT: Frankie Valli is back In season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" hspace=0 src=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/seasons.jpg\" align=left border=0\/>THE highlight of the recent Emmy Award broadcast was soundtrack from the Soprano&#8217;s tribute. The cast of the smash Broadway musical &#8220;The Jersey Boys&#8221;, performed some flawless interpretations of the music of The Four Seasons. My wife is the award show addict in our family, but I found myself pulled from the computer room, rewinding the DVR to listen again to the incredible Seasons magic. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/23\/arts\/music\/23decu.html?_r=2&#038;th&#038;emc=th&#038;oref=slogin&#038;oref=slogin\">this NYT article notes<\/a>, the musical has been a catalyst for another Four Seasons rennaissance. And at the center, the singular talents of Franki Valli. The group charted 15 times on WKNR. Valli had 5 WKNR Music Guide appearances as a solo artist. At the dawn of the British Invasion, VeeJay actually put out a battle of the bands album pitting the Seasons against the Beatles. Here&#8217;s how the Four Seasons looked and sounded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fzv55K-6lY4\">during a Hullabalo appearance<\/a> at the height of their fame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE highlight of the recent Emmy Award broadcast was soundtrack from the Soprano&#8217;s tribute. The cast of the smash Broadway musical &#8220;The Jersey Boys&#8221;, performed some flawless interpretations of the music of The Four Seasons. My wife is the award show addict in our family, but I found myself pulled from the computer room, rewinding the DVR to listen again to the incredible Seasons magic. As this NYT article notes, the musical has been a catalyst for another Four Seasons rennaissance. And at the center, the singular talents of Franki Valli. The group charted 15 times on WKNR. Valli had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[104,103],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keener","tag-four-seasons","tag-frankie-valli","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}