#Bob Crewe

[oldshowbiz]

1966.

The seldom heard B-side to Music to Watch Girls By: GIrls on the Rocks.

[slowtraincumming]

Bob Crewe and Frank Slay's reaction to the four seasons rewriting the final verse of Lucky Ladybug:

[arbitrarygreay]

See, this? This is what the spark sounds like.

[soupy-sez]

The Four Seasons listen to a playback in the studio on April 19th, 1967 in New York City

[altaruwusmolboiz]

YALL

[rolandrockover]

Working For Me Seems Too Easy

Today we come to a song that must have given a few old fans from the very beginning a digestive problem or two. And that's no wonder, because it's a track from Unmasked (1980), and as we all know, this album only contains light fare. Which means less meat and potatoes, and more sausage rolls and lamingtons, if you know what I mean.

Whether you like it or not, Paul makes every effort and shows the love of a mother bird to gently feed the predigested, filling porridge into willing beaks. But not everyone would want that, and hey, honestly, who can blame those, especially when, of all things, the R&B influence seeps through.

And where does that come from? The attentive reader of kissographies or other Kiss secondary literature will of course already have guessed that I'm gently alluding to The Spinners with their hit grenade Working My Way Back to You/Forgive Me Girl from 1979/80, which itself is more or less a slightly modified cover version of Working My Way Back to You (1966) by the Four Seasons.

Paul had actually only revealed in general terms that he had been inspired a little by The Spinners, but that he must have had exactly this song in mind should be unmistakable if you take the trouble to look up which Spinners track Youtube spits out first and briefly compare the corresponding result with Easy As It Seems.

And of course both choruses catch the eye, or rather, the ear, because apart from the fact that both tracks pretty much start with their choruses and Easy As It Seems verses virtually merge with its bridges and the chorus and can hardly be kept apart from each other, it is precisely these elements of both songs that bear a clear similarity to each other, both in melody, flow and in pointed emphasis. The result is a not really demanding, but rather groovy little song that may not necessarily shake the Rock world to its core, but one must not forget that it doesn't want to hurt anyone either.

Yes, life can be pretty hard and unfair, especially when you're a fan of a rock band that not only produced music that's easy to understand, but also dared to make it so varied.

Somehow I now have an insane desire to bake a cake.

Easy As It Seems (1980)

Working My Way Back to You/Forgive Me Girl (1979)

[filosofablogger]

♫ Silhouettes ♫

I sort of did an ‘eenie meenie minie mo’ to pick tonight’s song for Herman’s Hermits’ Week, for I have several on the list to play this week and couldn’t decide.  Herman’s Hermits weren’t the first to record this song, as we see from the SongFacts bio … This was written by Bob Crewe and Frank Slay, who also produced to original version, which was by a vocal group called The Rays. Their version…

[crypticscarecrow]

"Just take it from US!"

WOTFI 2024

[mitjalovse]

The early 60's period stretched to when then? I agree, this shouldn't be seen as an introduction to me explaining the 60's, since I have my personal view on them, though I believe the middle of the era ended up as the finish for some. True, Herman's Hermits – you saw I am posting their song – shouldn't be seen as one of the also-rans, they had their own peculiarities, though they did follow the set of sonic protocols that were popular at the time. They would've sounded differently, had they been established earlier, but why is that terrible? While they felt a bit watered down in comparison to some of their contemporaries, we should understand the scene then already reached the level, where such players didn't seem out of the ordinary. Of course, the entire 60's didn't stop here.

[bovinewriter]

Is this anything?

[thehazelmist]

And the last frame Includes every single other SMG4 villain.

I'm not saying this Is bad, I just felt like making this meme after WOTFI 2024. After It Implies Mr. Puzzles Is going to return again.

When do you think Mr. Puzzles will disappear for good? Because It certainly looks like the team has a favorite, and so do we...

[oldshowbiz]

The Bob Crewe Company

[michealscorneroftheinternet]

hay smg4 can I hug you?

meggy hug's?

tari hugs? the crew hug's? *my days are stresd for me school is a bitch*

(my oc)

Hugs from... Mostly everyone.

[moonlight12086]

MY POOR CHILDREN, HOW DARE YOU 😭😭😭

[goodbirb]

do you listen to time:bombs? have you listened to time:bombs? will you listen to time:bombs? when will you listen to time:bombs?

[change-name-later]

New ending just dropped guys. Totally real and will happen

This is the most effort I will be putting in a shitpost