But “December 1963” was initially rejected by the group. Four Seasons keyboardist Bob Gaudio and his future wife, Judy Parker, wrote the song, but the other band members didn’t like it.
“It was almost dumped from the album because we already had ‘Who Loves You,’” he added of the future hit song. “But we took a shot at rewriting it. My wife rewrote the lyric, and we kept the track, and we tried Frankie’s drummer at the time, Gerry Polci, and we came up with this idea of doing a multiple lead and bingo!”
New lyrics and a new lead singer
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Polci looked back on the history of the song. “That song has an interesting history in that Bobby and his wife, the late Judy Parker, played the song for us. We hated it,” he shared. “It just had the dumbest lyrics. It was about prohibition and flappers slipping on the floor. The date was wrong when it ended. We were all going, ‘There’s no way in the world we’re going to do this. We’re just not going to do this.’ … We’d already cut the rhythm track, and everyone loved it. We were like, “This sounds great, but we’re going to put this song on top of it? No.’”
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“I knew we were going to share leads,” he told Rolling Stone. “I didn’t realize to what extent we were going to share leads. And then they wanted me to sing the title section of it, and then the verses, and different parts of it. That’s the real history of that song.”
“I think it was right at that moment,” the Four Seasons alum added of the song’s success. “There was a lot of stuff going on, and the disco thing was getting stronger and stronger. This might have been just the right timing to stick its head through all that chaos.”
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