Bob Gaudio Jersey Boys Four Seasons Undercover interview Part 3

Bob Gaudio at Undercover talks about working with music legends such as Frank
Sinatra, Neil Diamond, Barbara Streisand and Michael Jackson, meeting and
working with wife Judy.

[@georgemusic4all4seasons]

An excellent talented individual who is seldom mentioned, Bob Gaudio you are up there with the best of them!!!!

[@carlmar713]

thanks for this NICE AND TALENTED COMPOSER

[@stooges5729]

Bob Watertown is a great record thank you for it all

[@Mickey4015]

Wow...thanks for posting. Thank you Bob for all of your hard work and contribution to our music industry. I'm just a fan who has witnessed over the years, how music has shaped American culture. Isn't it amazing how the youth is reverting back to the old songs of our time? That certainly tells the story, doesn't it? You must be very proud..if not, you should be. Once again...just wanted to say Thank you and thanks to the one who posted this interview. :-)

[@damon6852]

Excellent interviewer, Excellent interviewee!

[@jennifursun3303]

would have liked to have heard and set in on Neils sessions

[@bobbyer6838]

After seeing the movie yesterday these three interviews were spellbinding. I could have listen dozens more. What an unbelievable career for Bob. I was also born and raised in the Bronx but my fame was very limited to Music and Art High School and playing trombone for over 55 years in many different bands and orchestras.

[@Brooklyn50s]

Let me say this first, that I have a tremendous admiration and respect for Bob Gaudio. That's why I watched all 3 parts of this interview. Now somewhat only partly serious, I finally found out who to be mad at for "You Don't Send Me Flowers" being made, or I would say destroyed by Barbara Streisand (who I never liked) and Neil Diamond who I love listening to even today. About 1:10sec into this interview I discovered that it was Bob Gaudio who produced that record which angers me even till today whenever I think about it. You see, I retired from a successful career as a television cameraman, and early in my career I was always the youngest on any crew in my early 20's. It was somewhere early in the 1970's that I was sent to Washington DC to do a show with two other cameramen colleagues of mine that stared Tom Jones, and the opening act was Tina Turner who was on her comeback tour after divorcing Ike Turner and going out as a single.performer. We were rolling tape on the show and the second song Tina did which we didn't do in the rehearsal was "You Don't Send Me Flowers", which was not written as a duet. It was about a woman losing her man and pouring her heart out to him. I was almost embarrassed that my eyes filled at the emotion Tina delivered that song with until I looked over at the other cameramen and saw both of them tearing up as well. I had my shot set and momentarily turned to look behind me at the audience and saw that almost everyone was doing the same, men and women alike. When we finished taping the first show I asked Tina if that was going to be on her new album that she was working on. She said to me :We're trying to get it.". When I heard it come out as a duet completely butchered by Streisand, and so far from what Tina did with it, it made me so angry to think that no one would ever hear and experience what a theater full of tearing people heard that day. I guess they thought that they had the best shot for a hit with big Marque names like Neil Diamond and Streisand at the time, than Tina before she became a world wide star. It's like losing an irreplaceable art treasure that is gone forever. I'm still a huge Bob Gaudio fan because he's a great person and talent on every level, as is Neil Diamond, and I'll have to forgive them for this, but I have to be mad at someone, so Streisand, you're it! You painted over a Rembrandt with a crayon and you suck for doing it.

[@uncleharry5758]

+Steve Stunning While you do of course have the authority to complain about the version by Barbra and Neil. Is the version by Tina available anywhere so we the audience can make out own observation? Thanks in advance!

[@Brooklyn50s]

Unfortunately no, because when I asked Tina in rehearsal for the next show if she was going to include it in her next album she said, "We're trying to get it." She never did, it went to "Names" that were hot at the time in the late 70's to guarantee sales. Tina was making her comeback tour after a divorce and breaking away from Ike Turner. All I can say is when an artist can cause the eyes of an audience including men and women and the crew well up with water with the delivery of a song, it's a sad loss.to time, and a throw away piece of music on a sales decision only. .

[@joyceyolandastorch8964]

I never knew Bob was involved with so much production of top artists. But his songs were the majic for the success of so many of The Four Seasons hit songs and success.Thank God for his talent.