ED DANAHUE

                               
MIKE GRACIA

    
    
    
    
   
On September 15, 1962, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons’
"Sherry" hits the top of the pop music charts. It was the
start of a remarkable run of hits.

"Sherry" was written by Bob Gaudio who said the song took
about 15 minutes to write and was originally titled "Jackie
Baby” (in honor of then-First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy).

Gaudio stated the song was inspired by the 1961 Bruce
Channel hit …"Hey! Baby."

At the studio, the name was changed to "Terri Baby", and
eventually to "Sherry", the name of the daughter of Gaudio’s
best friend, New York DJ Jack Spector.

Jack Spector
(September 15, 1928 – March 8, 1994)

Singer Frankie Valli is 91 now.

                 
CAMILLE BOHANNON

Sir George Ivan "Van" Morrison is a Northern Irish
singer-songwriter and musician whose recording
career started in the 1960s. He is 80 today.

On August 15, 1969, the Woodstock music festival opened on
a patch of farmland in White Lake, a hamlet in the upstate New
York town of Bethel.

Promoters John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfield and
Michael Lang originally envisioned the festival as a way to raise
funds to build a recording studio and rock-and-roll retreat near
the town of Woodstock, New York.