11/17/62...Big Girls Dont 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 100 on November 17, 1962, and, like its predecessor Sherry, spent five weeks in the top position. The song also made it to number one, for three weeks, on Billboards Rhythm and Blues survey. According to Gaudio, he was dozing off while watching the John Payne/Rhonda Fleming/Ronald Reagan movie Tennessees Partner (1955) when he heard Paynes character slap Fleming in the face. After the slap, Flemings character replied, Big girls dont cry. Gaudio wrote the line on a scrap of paper, fell asleep, and wrote the song the next morning. However, the now-famous line does not appear in the Ronald Reagan film. According to Bob Crewe, he himself was dozing off in his Manhattan home with the television on when he awoke to see John Payne manhandling Rhonda Fleming in a 1956 film noir Slightly Scarlet. The line is heard in that film based on a James M. Cain story. Like Sherry, Big Girls Dont Cry is sung mostly in falsetto. With this song, the Four Seasons became the first rock-era act to hit the top spot on the Hot 100 with their first two chart entries (their first single, Bermuda/Spanish Lace, did not appear on any Billboard chart in 1961). Various episodes of Happy Days features this song, most notably when it is played in the jukebox at Arnolds diner. It has also appeared in the soundtrack to the 1987 film Dirty Dancing. https://youtube/watch?v=C5QAAg5ITUA
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 16:52:17 +0000
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