Bob Gaudio

Gaudio is a member of the Songwriters' Hall of Fame.
. He lured Neil Diamond to Nashville to record the album "Tennessee Moon." In recent years Gaudio has focused on musical theater, writing the music for the 2001 London production of "Peggy Sue Got Married." Gaudio was instrumental in mounting "Jersey Boys," a musical play based on the lives of The Four Seasons, which is running at the La Jolla (California) Playhouse through January 2, 2005 and is headed for Broadway. In 1991, Guthrie bought the church that had served as Alice Brock's former home, which had been made famous by the song, and converted it to the Guthrie Center (http://www.guthriecenter.org), an interfaith meeting place that serves people of all religions. In the 1990s Gaudio moved to Nashville and produced recordings for Canadian country artist George Fox, among others. He collaborated with poet Adrian Mitchell to tell the story of Chilean folk singer and activist Víctor Jara in song. He produced the movie soundtrack albums for Diamond's "The Jazz Singer" and "The Little Shop of Horrors.". Like his father, Woody Guthrie, Arlo often sings songs of protest against social injustice.

In particular, he produced six complete albums for Neil Diamond. He also had a minor hit with his song "Coming into Los Angeles". In addition to his work for the Seasons and Sinatra, he wrote and/or produced for Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Barry Manilow and Roberta Flack. Guthrie also made famous Steve Goodman's song "City of New Orleans", a paean to long-distance rail travel. Gaudio had stopped touring with the Seasons in 1971 so that he could focus on writing and producing. The song also provided the scenario (and much of the soundtrack) for the film Alice's Restaurant (movie). The original Four Seasons were inducted into the Rock and Rock Hall of Fame in 1990. (compare with the song "Haddocks' Eyes" in Through the Looking-Glass).

The songs became big hits for a reconstituted discofied version of the Four Seasons (Valli was the only original left). To quote one of the song's Carrollian twists:. Later in the 1970s Gaudio wrote "Who Loves You" and "December 1963 (Oh What a Night)" with his future wife Judy Parker. There are many parodies of the song as well. Gaudio and Holmes also wrote and produced Frank Sinatra's 1970 album "Watertown.". Alice's Restaurant was revised and updated some years later to protest Reagan era policies, but the second version has not been released on a commercial recording. and Ace in the U.K. The first recording of the song was done at the exact same time as the Apollo 11 Moon Landing.

Appreciation of "The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette" has grown over the years, and it was released on CD (minus the newspaper cover) in the 1990s by Rhino in the U.S. The lyrics to the song can be found at this location on Guthrie's web site: [1] (http://www.arlo.net/lyrics/alices.shtml) Although it has some fantastical elements, it is based on a true story. The album was a commercial failure and marked the end of the Four Seasons' first period of success, but the album's quirky newspaper-style cover influenced the covers of subsequent albums by Jefferson Airplane, Jethro Tull, and John Lennon. "Alice's Restaurant" is regularly played on some radio stations every Thanksgiving. With lyricist Jake Holmes, Gaudio sought to join the trend toward more socially conscious pop music by writing and producing the album "The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette," released by the Four Seasons in 1969. The song describes how Guthrie was hauled into court for littering some of Alice's garbage after discovering that the dump was closed for Thanksgiving, and because of the resulting criminal record he was eventually rejected as unfit for military service when he was called up for the draft. The characters in the story, including both Alice and "officer Obie", who arrested him, became famous in their own right as a result of the song. Gaudio-Crewe compositions also became major hits for other artists, including the Tremeloes ("Silence is Golden") and the Walker Brothers ("The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore"). Alice, in this case, was restaurant owner Alice Brock, who lived in a former church in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Together with producer Bob Crewe, Gaudio wrote a string of subsequent '60s hits for the Seasons, including "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Walk Like a Man," 'Ronnie," "Save It For Me," "Bye Bye Baby" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" (the first big success under Valli's name as a "solo artist"). The song, a bitingly satirical protest against the Vietnam War draft, recounts a true Thanksgiving adventure that began at Alice's Restaurant, where "you can get anything you want (excepting Alice)". Gaudio played keyboards and wrote the Seasons' first hit, "Sherry," in 1962. His most famous work is "Alice's Restaurant", a story song that lasts 18 minutes and 20 seconds. He shot to musical fame at the age of 15 as a member of the Royal Teens when he wrote the hit "Short Shorts." For years afterward he seemed destined to be a one-hit wonder until he met Frankie Valli, Tommy DeVito, and Nick Massi, all from Newark, New Jersey, forming the group that became the Four Seasons. He graduated from the controversial Stockbridge School of Massachusetts in 1965, and briefly attended Rocky Mountain College. Bob Gaudio (born November 17, 1942) is an American singer and songwriter from the Bronx, New York. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1947.

Arlo Guthrie is an American folk singer who is the son of folk singer and composer Woody Guthrie. Mystic Journey (1996). Alice's Restaurant - The Massacree Revisted (1996). More Together Again (1994).

2 Songs (1992). Son of the Wind (1992). All Over the World (1991). Someday (1986).

Precious Friend (1982). Power Of Love (1981). Outlasting the Blues (1979). One Night (1978).

The Best of Arlo Guthrie (1977). Amigo (1976). Together In Concert (1975). Arlo Guthrie (1974).

Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys (1973). Hobo's Lullaby (1972). Washington County (1970). Running Down the Road (1969).

Arlo (1968). Alice's Restaurant (1967).