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Joey's not in "Jersey Boys"???

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chas108

WCBS-FM weekender Jay Sorensen has a point...and it involves Joey Reynolds. Without whom, The Four Seasons might have remained "Jersey Boys" permanently!

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The wife went to see the movie....she had no idea who Joey Reynolds is! I filled her in quickly!! {I think she grew up under a rock} If you put your hand halfway over Joey's face on your Night People member card, what beatle did he look like from the eyes up? I think it was John Lennon, but damned if I can remember....
 
Joey Reynolds, I don't know about WPOP but at WKBW he was a real blast to listen to! I don't know where he got some of his ideas but he made entertaining the masses sound so easy. I loved his little behind the scenes chatter. Before I'd seen the Beatles I remember him going on the air and talking about his Beatle Haircut. Radio was never better than when Joey was doing nights on KB. I found an aircheck of his show from February 1964, it's all over the internet now. It's just as good as I remembered! Radio shaking up like Joey did. It's too boring and predictable.
 
I never heard any of his 'KB work...actually never heard ANY of his work until recently on a Keener 13/Detroit aircheck. I was first aware of him in association with his "experimental AC" format at KQV/Pittsburgh, then learned he'd been at 'KB...created the "Pop-Tops" years later...and a bunch of other stuff.

So consider me late to the party.

The aircheck itself blew me away. Like Jeff Kaye and Dan Ingram, the presentation would IMO work today because it sounds peer-based (friend to friend) and natural rather than pukey. Would have loved to have heard him on a regular airshift but I'm a little young.

Enjoy the FB mini-podcasts he occasionally does. What a scream!
 
You'd think the producers could have at least given Reynolds and/or his show at WPOP or WKBW a couple of seconds in the movie, given that he was one of the first to play the Four Seasons and was one of the group's early advocates at a time when radio personalities wielded considerable influence in pop music; what was played and what became a hit. According to a few legacies, the Four Seasons' Joey Reynolds theme was first used at WPOP Hartford and later modified when he came to WKBW. I'm fortunate to have worked with Joey when he did fill-in at WHTT and when his overnight network show aired on WGR. He's a stand-up guy.
 
The point is, Reynolds deserved a few frames. All debate about movie machinations aside, it could be that Joey got his frames but they were left on the cutting room floor. It's been known to happen.
 
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