Pop Song 226 'December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)' The Four Seasons 1975

Pop Song 226 'December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)' The Four Seasons 1975

According to the co-writer and longtime group member Bob Gaudio, the song's lyrics were originally set in 1933 with the title "December 5th, 1933," and celebrated the repeal of Prohibition, but the lyrics were changed at the urgings of Frankie Valli and lyricist Parker to reposition the song as a nostalgic remembrance of a young man's first affair with a woman, and, more specifically, Gaudio's courtship with his wife, Judy Parker