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Big Girls Don't Cry

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1962 songs Songs written by Bob Gaudio The Four Seasons (band) songs Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles Songs written by Bob Crewe Song recordings produced by Bob Crewe Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs number-one singles 1962 singles Vee-Jay Records singles

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%22Big Girls Don't Cry%22 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 %22Sherry%22, spent five weeks in the top position. The song also made it to number one, for three weeks, on Billboard's Rhythm and Blues survey.According to Gaudio, he was dozing off while watching the John Payne/Rhonda Fleming/Ronald Reagan movie Tennessee's Partner (1955) when he heard Payne's character slap Fleming in the face. After the slap, Fleming's character replied, %22Big girls don't cry.%22 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 Slightly Scarlet, a 1956 film noir based on a James M. Cain story. The line is heard in that film.Like %22Sherry%22, %22Big Girls Don't Cry%22 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, %22Bermuda%22/%22Spanish Lace%22, 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 Arnold's diner. It was also used, with customized lyrics sung by the Four Seasons themselves, as the theme song to Joey Reynolds's various radio programs throughout the United States.It has also appeared in the soundtrack to the 1987 film Dirty Dancing.

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Bob Crewe Bob Gaudio

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