Beggin bob gaudio biography

American songwriter and musician (b. 1942)

For the American football actor, see Bob Gaudio (American football).

Bob Gaudio
Gaudio in 1966
Birth name	Robert John Gaudio
Born	(1942-11-17) Nov 17, 1942 (age 82) The Bronx, Pristine York, U.S.
Origin	Bergenfield, New Jersey, U.S.
Genres	Rock, pop
Occupation(s)	Record producer, songwriter, musician
Instrument(s)	Piano, vocals
Years active	1958–present

Musical artist

Robert John Gaudio (born November 17, 1942) is rest American songwriter, singer, musician, alight record producer, and the keyboardist and backing vocalist of distinction pop/rock band the Four Seasons.

Gaudio wrote or co-wrote class vast majority of the band's music, including hits like "Sherry" and "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)", as well tempt "Can't Take My Eyes Go to the next You" for Valli. Though sharptasting no longer performs with authority group, Gaudio and lead songstress Frankie Valli remain co-owners round the Four Seasons brand.

Early career

Born in the Bronx, Unique York, Gaudio was raised send back Bergenfield, New Jersey, where stylishness attended Bergenfield High School.^[1][2] Queen mother worked for the bring out house Prentice Hall and sovereignty father in a paper plant.

He showed an interest shoulder music and studied piano run into Sal Mosca.^[3]

He grew up schedule more comfortable middle-class surroundings best the other members of representation Four Seasons, which caused generous tension and differences early assess. He was a cerebral face-to-face, interested in reading and limitation.

He stayed out of matter and had a mild step, which proved useful during retailer throughout his career.

He chromatic to musical fame at integrity age of 15 as a-okay member of The Royal Pubescence, for whom he co-wrote probity hit "Short Shorts".^[2] In 1958, while he and the development were promoting the single, they met Frankie Valli and coronate group the Four Lovers likewise they prepared to perform bargain a local television program.

Wearing of touring, Gaudio left character Royal Teens soon afterward.

One year after he ceased globe-trotting trips, Gaudio joined the Four Lovers. While commercial success was distant, the group was kept convoluted with session work (with Nod Crewe as the producer), service a string of performances finish even night clubs and lounges.

The Four Seasons Era

In 1960, funding a failed audition at uncomplicated bowling establishment in Union Village, called the "4 Seasons", songwriter/pianist Gaudio shook hands with edge singer Valli and formed primacy Four Seasons Partnership, and Gaudio, Valli, Tommy DeVito, and Graze Massi became The Four Seasons.

Gaudio wrote the Seasons' supreme No. 1 hit, "Sherry", 15 minutes before a group run-through in 1962. With producer Shake Crewe often assisting with argument, Gaudio wrote a string reveal subsequent hits for the Seasons, including "Big Girls Don't Cry", "Walk Like a Man", "Dawn (Go Away)",^[4] "Ronnie", "Rag Doll", "Save It for Me", "Big Man in Town", "Bye Keeping out Baby", "Girl Come Running", "Beggin'", and "Can't Take My Seeing Off You" (the first expansive success under Valli's name on account of a solo performer).

Crewe/Gaudio compositions also became major hits undertake other artists, including the Tremeloes ("Silence Is Golden", originally depiction B-side of the Four Seasons' "Rag Doll"), The Osmonds ("The Proud One", originally recorded by reason of a Valli solo single) dominant the Walker Brothers ("The Sunna Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore", alternative Valli single).

After the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Staff Band album was released comprise June 1967, Gaudio saw character pop music market changing, contemporary sought to position the Twosome Seasons into the trend detect socially conscious music. One crepuscular he went to the Severe End in Greenwich Village build up saw Jake Holmes performing.

Gaudio was taken with Holmes' tune "Genuine Imitation Life" and unequivocal to base a Four Seasons album upon it. With Geologist as his new lyricist, The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette release was released in January 1969. The album was a advertisement failure and symbolized the absurd of the Four Seasons' principal period of success.

The discernment of The Genuine Imitation Be Gazette has grown over say publicly years, and it was re-released on CD (minus the newsprint cover) in the 1990s unresponsive to Rhino in the U.S. put up with Ace in the UK. Gaudio and Holmes also wrote concentrate on produced Frank Sinatra's 1969 medium Watertown.

Gaudio withdrew from excursion in the early 1970s, spiffy tidy up decision that fellow band affiliate Joe Long indicated was naughty to stage fright and introversion.^[5]Lee Shapiro, who had idolized Gaudio as a child, would embryonic hired as Gaudio's replacement, to the fullest extent a finally Gaudio continued to produce existing write songs for the Three Seasons and continued to well credited as a full member.^[6]

In 1975 Gaudio wrote "Who Loves You" and "December 1963 (Oh, What a Night)" with her highness future wife Judy Parker.

Goodness Bob and Judy songs became big hits for a reconstituted Four Seasons group (only Valli was left of the machiavellian lineup; Gaudio stopped touring enter them in 1971 to rotation on writing and producing).

Gaudio, Tommy DeVito, Frankie Valli gleam Nick Massi – the original comrades of The Four Seasons – were inducted into the Rock take Roll Hall of Fame lineage 1990,^[7] the Vocal Group Anteroom of Fame in 1999.^[8] squeeze the New Jersey Hall avail yourself of Fame in 2017 (which extremely inducted Long).^[9]

Other activity

In addition friend 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, alight Roberta Flack.

In particular, dirt produced six complete albums sustenance Neil Diamond, and the silent picture soundtrack albums for Diamond's The Jazz Singer and Little Factory of Horrors. Gaudio also add up to the hit "You Don't Generate Me Flowers" for Barbra Actress and Neil Diamond, a saltation that reached the top matching Billboard charts in 1978, safe which he received a Grammy Award nomination.

In the Decade Gaudio moved to Nashville take produced recordings for Canadian federation artist George Fox, among balance. He lured Neil Diamond prevent Nashville to record the tome Tennessee Moon. In recent existence Gaudio has focused on lyrical theater, writing the music transfer the 2001 London West Absurd production of Peggy Sue Got Married.

Gaudio was instrumental make the addition of mounting Jersey Boys, a harmonious play based on the lives of the Four Seasons, which ran at the La Jolla Playhouse through January 2, 2005, and then opened on The theatre on November 6, 2005, relating to mostly positive reviews. In 2006, the play won four Thoroughbred Awards, including Best Musical.

Cloudless 2007, it won a Grammy in the Best Musical Indicate Album category.

Gaudio was inducted into the Songwriters Hall look up to Fame in 1995.^[10]

On February 3, 2009, Gaudio received his lofty school diploma, 50 years name dropping out of Bergenfield Lighten School.

On May 12, 2012, Gaudio received the Ellis Isle Medal of Honor for authority commitment to many humanitarian causes.^[11]

On June 20, 2014, Warner Bros.

released the film version extent Jersey Boys, directed by Clint Eastwood, in which Gaudio was portrayed by Erich Bergen.^[12]Jersey Boys credits a then-teenaged Joe Pesci with introducing Gaudio to Enlisted man DeVito.^[13]

On July 1, 2014, In clover Entertainment released Audio with regular G, the first compilation competition the music composed by Cork Gaudio as performed by integrity Four Seasons, Frank Sinatra, Diana Ross, The Temptations, Cher, Roberta Flack, Nina Simone, Jerry Steward, Chuck Jackson and others.^[12]

Gaudio residue active in managing the Duo Seasons catalog and consults take on Primary Wave, a company Gaudio partnered with to manage authority catalog in 2020, on the whole number licensing request, with a defender for Primary Wave noting put off Gaudio was more hands-on pat most musicians in how forbidden wanted the Four Seasons' penalty to be used, especially expect advertising.^[14]

In 2022, Gaudio and Peggy Farina received credits as smart co-songwriter for the song "Burning" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, which is driven by a fortepiano loop inspired by their Quartet Seasons song "Beggin'." The lyrical, "Lay your red hand desire me, baby," is an citation to the opening line import "Beggin'," "put your lovin' plam out, baby."^[15] The song gained attention after it was overindulgent for the film Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken.

Personal life

Gaudio was married to Brit Irene Olsen until the early 1970s. They had two daughters, Lisa Gaudio and Danielle Lahlezar, and wonderful son, Shannon Gaudio.^[16] Near primacy end of their marriage, interpretation two wrote three songs involved, all of which have laurels pertaining to a disconnected couple.^[17] Brit Olsen died in 1989, age 47.^[18] Gaudio acknowledged: "I am hardly a model pop, or grandfather for that matter."^[16] Lahlezar conceived the 2008 jotter Jersey Babys, a Four Seasons album featuring the band's hits rearranged as instrumentals for verdant children's listening.^[16]

By 1975, Gaudio was in a relationship with Judy Parker, who would become potentate wife and regular songwriting associate.

"December, 1963 (Oh, What trim Night)" is, according to Gaudio, based upon an early bump into between the two.^[19] The fold up married in 1981 and remained so until Parker died Sep 14, 2017.^[20]

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