Jersey Boys Podcast

J. Robert "Bobby" Spencer reports that his movie "Farm Girl In New York" is now being distributed by Maverick Entertainment Group and can be purchased online at sites like Amazon.

Mr. Spencer orginated the role of orignal Four Season's member Nick Massi in Jersey Boys at the La Jolla Playhouse and on Broadway.

The podcast has run interviews with Mr. Spencer several times in the past including an interview dedicated to discussing this film:

• #005 - Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade & WKCR Interview with J. Robert Spencer
• #017 - Review of the Broadyway Show and Interview with J. Robert Spencer
• #042 - Beggin Re-Edit Plus 2004 Full Focus Interview with Daniel Reichard and J. Robert Spencer
• #052 - San Diego Tour Update, Jennifer Naimo's Cabaret, Interview With J. Robert Spencer About His New Farm Girl In New York Movie
• #065 - Interview with J. Robert Spencer

Today's podcast Jersey Boys Podcast #071 (recorded Tuesday, December 23, 2009) includes two cast interviews.  The first interview is with Quinn Van Antwerp who plays Bob Gaudio with the Jersey Boys Toronto Company.  And then Matt Bailey who plays Tommy Devito is interviewed from the Jersey Boys National Tour. 

Listen! (Size: 27.6-MBs, Time: 39m42s)

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Additional links mentioned in this podcast of potential interest:

• Vee Jay Records
• Philips Records
• Rhino Records
• Jersey Boys Podcast #031
• Jersey Boys Info 
• Jersey Boys Blog
• The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette (GILG)

Song samples included in this podcast (thanks to Rhino Records):

• "Jungle Bells" [Four Seasons' Christmas Album]
• "Joy To The World [Four Seasons' Christmas Album]
• "The Little Drummer Boy" [Four Seasons' Christmas Album]
• "What Child Is This" [Four Seasons' Christmas Album]

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The Jersey Boys Podcast #070 (recorded Friday, December 4, 2009) includes our much anticipated and long over due interview with Rick Elice who co-wrote the Jersey Boys Book with Marshall Brickman.

Listen! (Size: 31.6-MBs, Time: 45m36s)

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Links mentioned in this podcast include:

• Jersey Boys Coffee Table Book
• Jersey Boys Info
• Jersey Boys Blog
• The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette
• Peter Schneider
• Sister Act in London
• Peter and The Starcatchers
• Walt Disney Theatrical
• La Jolla Playhouse "Page To Stage"
• The Adams Family

Song samples included in this podcast (thanks to Rhino Records):

• "Bye-Bye-Baby" [Cast CD]
• "Rag Doll" [Anthology CD]

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Today's Jersey Boys Podcast show is a quick run down of the latest news and pointers related to the Jersey Boys National Tour.  Currently the National Tour cast is in Atlanta, GA.  We start off the podcast with music from the Broadway show highlighting the song "You're The Apple Of My Eye" written by Otis Blackwell, and give you a sample from the 1950s recording from The Four Lovers.

Listen! (Size: 11.5-MBs, Time: 16m40s)

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Links mentioned in this podcast include:

• Jersey Boys Blog
• The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette
• Broadway World on "1000th Performance" 
• Jersey Boys interview on Atlanta Oldies Station
• Broadway World on "Record Breaking in Florida"
• Interview with Jonathan Hadley
• Jersey Boys Sing At Atlanta Braves Game
• AJC on "Frankie Valli Camp"
• Rick Elice on "Why Jersey Boys Matters"
• Jersey Boys coming to Washington DC [about.com, broadwayworld.com]
• Detroit is getting ready for Jersey Boys

Song samples included in this podcast (thanks to Rhino Records):

• "You're The Apple Of My Eye" [Jersey Boys Cast CD]
• "You're The Apple Of My Eye" [The Four Lovers CD]

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Today's Jersey Boys Podcast show reaches back into our archives and puts together in a single podcast the Tommy DeVito interview we conducted back in Fall 2007.  The audio recording for the MP3 has been upgraded from previous releases at 64-kbps to 96-kbps.  Also, if you enjoyed this audio interview with Tommy you should check out these other interviews: Las Vegas Review Journal (Doug Elfman) and Jersey Boys Blog Interview (Dec06).

Listen! (Size: 56.6-MBs, Time: 1h22m15s)

The only song segment sampled in this podcast (thanks to Rhino Records) was:

• "Big Man In Town" [CAST CD]

Links mentioned in this podcast include:

• Jersey Boys HQ
• The Four Seasons' Anthology CD
• Jersey Boys Blog

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Jersey Boys and Four Seasons' fans should enjoy this interview with Charlie Calello on the The Frank Truth Show #117.

While this podcast is dedicated to Frank Sinatra, the Four Seasons, the Four Lovers, Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Nick Massi, and Jersey Boys are mentioned in the very early part of the interview.

Charlie Calello was a member of the Four Lovers and for a short time officially part of the Four Seasons.  He was also the primary arranger for huge percentage of Four Seasons and Frankie Valli songs and albums. 

There is also some great commentary from Charlie Calello in the Jersey Boys coffee table book.

The 67th Jersey Boys Podcast brings you another Jersey Boys Las Vegas Cast Members interview with Rick Faugno who stars in the role of Frankie Valli and Joyce Chittick who at the time of the recording was staring in the primary track known as Mary Delgado.  You can check out the Jersey Boys in Las Vegas (both the musical and the store) at the Palazzo Resort and Casino.

Listen! (Size: 25.9-MBs, Time: 37:34)

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Additional links mentioned in this podcast:

• Peggy Farina referenced in Beggin Wikipedia page
• Beggin used in an Adidas commercial
• Jersey Boys Info
• JerseyBoysBlog.com
• The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette
• Audacity (free open source audio editing software)
• New Media Expo 2008
• Erich Bergen
• Daniel Reichard
• Jeff Leibow
• Tommy DeVito
• Joe Long

Music samples (thanks to Rhino Records) played in this podcast includes:

• "Beggin" [Jersey Boys Cast CD]
• "December 1963 (Oh What A Night)" [Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons Anthology CD]
• "Save It For Me" [Jersey Baby CD]

Picture with Steve and Vivian enjoying Jersey Baby CD via Flickr!

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George Clinton, who could be categorized as the Master of Funk, was originally part of the doo op band The Parliaments.  During this period, he lived close to both the The Monotones who wrote the song "(Who Wrote) The Book Of Love," and the The Four Seasons - who incidentally released a cover of "Book Of Love" on the Big Girls Don't Cry CD distributed by Rhino Records in 1995. 

These doo op memories of George Clinton come compliments of an interviewed on NPR. According to the interview, his band The Monotones, and members of the Four Seasons (probably before they were called Four Seasons) competed against each other in local New Jersey battle of the band contests. 

Here are some top Jersey Boys news items we are tracking:

• Variety has updates on box office numbers for the Chicago and Tour (currently in Pittsburgh, PA until 01Feb09) companies.  They are very strong.
• The Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons tribute group Let's Hang On is coming to the Pasco-Hernando Community College Performing Arts Center in Florida on Feb. 7, 2009. [Tampa Bay Times]
• The UK based Chameleon blog has posted a perspective piece entitled "Looking Back to the future."
• Jersey Boys Toronto recently got some great press coverage from: Broadway World, Toronto Sun, and The Star.
• Michelle Alexandria recently reviewed Jersey Boys Las Vegas for Eclipse Magazine.  And according to The Las Vegas News Feed Blog the Las Vegas Review-Journal has named Jersey Boys Las Vegas at The Palazzo Resort-Hotel-Casino the the number one show of 2008.
• The 1st National Tour of Jersey Boys is finishing up in Pittsburgh, PA and getting ready to head to Hartford, CN.  While in Pittsburgh they garnered several great reviews from Pittsburgh Live, Observer-Recorder, and Post-Gazette.
• The History Mike Blog named Frankie Valli the #1 falsettos in Rock and Pop history.
• The Chicago Examiner has an 'update' story about the success of Jersey Boys Chicago and details on recent cast member changes.  In addition, the Worcester Telegram & Gazzette has a focus piece on Chicago cast member Merissa Haddad.

Mike over at the Jersey Boys Forum notes that Chicago WLIT's Melissa Forman recently had the "Chicago company of JERSEY BOYS in the studio to discuss the new block of tickets that went on-sale to the public Friday, January 23 at 10 a.m. for performances April 14 through July 12, 2009.

Here is Part 1 via You Tube:

Here is Part 2 via You Tube: