Do you recall the first time you heard The Four Seasons on the radio?
BILLY JOEL: I recall hearing “Sherry” back in the early ’60s. I was immediately attracted to their music when I first heard Frankie Valli singing “Sherry.” This is something really different. I don’t recall if I heard The Beach Boys before I heard The Four Seasons. But I do recall that there was a kind of a sense that The Four Seasons were our East Coast band and The Beach Boys were the West Coast band, and it was like that for a couple of years in the ’60s. You know, California had The Beach Boys and New York had The Four Seasons. They were our guys. They were like the neighborhood guys.
Yes, that’s very true. The Beach Boys, as much as I love them, weren’t singing about rag dolls, they were singing about
