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...dress-code martinet (though I must note I was the only audience member in my field of vision who was wearing a tie), but to indicate that here was a show with an instant lock on its market. The producers of this show about the Four Seasons-the '60s vocal quartet from Belleville, N.J., that sold maybe 100 million records (those were vinyl discs that people bought before there were CDs, kids) had quickly located that segment of the tri-state community who had danced and romanced to songs like "Sherry" and "Dawn" and, 40 years later, were pleased...
...musical to hear good music that will soon be familiar to the rest of the world, what do you go for? Good old familiar music. Hence Jersey Boys, which recounts the career of the '60s vocal quartet the Four Seasons and their tenor-falsetto lead singer Frankie Valli...
...dementing falsetto (often multiplied on record by having him dupe his solos on a second track). First time around, hearing "Sherry," listeners may have thought it was a gag. Sometimes he used it for fun, in high-pitched baby talk, as George Rock's comic falsetto had for the vocal in Spike Jones' 1947 novelty hit "All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)." And the reading of "bay-yay-bee" in "Sherry," offers a few seconds of comedy-record crib noise...
Furthermore, the editorial makes incorrect assumptions about the University’s authorization of the protest exercised at the Finkelstein event, comparing it to the unsanctioned and repulsive protest that took place at a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) recruitment event last spring. Spontaneous vocal protests are in no way comparable to self-induced vomiting. The CIA disrupters completely shut down last year’s event, rendering recruiters unable to continue presenting employment opportunities to Harvard students seeking jobs; Finkelstein was able to continue his diatribe for nearly three full hours. During this time, HLS Dean of Students Ellen Cosgrove...
...issue at hand is an empirical one: this vocal protest was allowed and legitimate. Reports stating otherwise or equating last week’s Finkelstein protest with last year’s CIA protest are either irresponsibly ignorant of the facts or shamefully malicious...