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Big Girls Don't Cry (The Four Seasons song)

single by The Four Seasons

"Big Girls Don't Cry" is a song written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio and originally recorded by the Four Seasons. It hit number one on the Billboard Hot on November 17, , and, like its predecessor "Sherry", spent five weeks in the top position but never ranked in the Billboard year-end charts of or The song also made it to number one, for three weeks, on Billboard's Rhythm and Blues survey.[6] It was also the quartet's second single to make it to number one on the US R&B charts.

Background

According to Gaudio, he was dozing off while watching the John Payne/Rhonda Fleming/Ronald Reagan movie Tennessee's Partner when he heard Payne's character slap Fleming in the face. After the slap, Fleming's character replied, "Big girls don't cry." Gaudio wrote the line on a scrap of paper, fell asleep, and wrote the song the next morning.[7][8] However, the line does not appear in that film.

According to Bob Crewe, he was dozing off in his Manhattan home with the television on when he awoke to see Payne manhandling Fleming in Slightly Scarlet, a film noir based on a James M. Cain story.

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The line is heard in that film.[citation needed]

Like "Sherry", the lead in "Big Girls Don't Cry" is sung mostly in falsetto. With this song, the Four Seasons became the first rock-era act to hit the number one spot on the Hot with their first two chart entries (their first single, "Bermuda"/"Spanish Lace", did not appear on any Billboard chart in ).

In , "Big Girls Don't Cry" by The Four Seasons was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[9]

Personnel

Partial credits.[10]

The Four Seasons
  • Frankie Valli – lead vocals, handclaps
  • Tommy DeVito – harmony and backing vocals, guitar, handclaps
  • Nick Massi – counterpoint, harmony and backing vocals, bass, handclaps
  • Bob Gaudio – harmony and backing vocals, piano, handclaps
Additional musician and production staff

The father of co-arranger Charles Calello provides the song's trumpet solo.[11]

Charts

Weekly charts

All-time charts

References

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  6. ^Dunbavan, Peter (28 February ). An Avid's Guide to Sixties Songwriters. AuthorHouse.

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  9. ^Whitburn, Joel (). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: –. Record Research. p.&#;
  10. ^Joe Sasfy, liner notes (). "The Rock 'N' Roll Era". Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons.

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  12. ^"GRAMMY HALL OF FAME AWARD". . Retrieved
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  14. ^Pinchot, Joe (December 28, ).

    "Valli's unusual falsetto didn't overshadow Four Seasons' sound".

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  21. ^Roberts, David (). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th&#;ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited.

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  24. ^"Billboard Hot 60th Anniversary Interactive Chart". Billboard. Retrieved January 14,

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