"Stay" (Four Seasons) #16 4/4/1964 Bonus

The week of April 4, 1964 was just amazing in pop music history, with the Beatles holding down the entire Top 5, etc. We'll touch on that from time to time in the coming weeks as I still play catch-up on stuff I missed in putting my blog together. The Four Seasons had recently jumped labels, so their former label Vee-Jay decided to cash in and release as much of their old material as possible, as was done previously with Beatles songs they licensed. This would be the last hit under that arrangement, however. It's a remake of the 1960 Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs original, which was the shortest #1 record of the rock era at 1:36. Jackson Browne also re-did this tune in the late 70's with his "Running On Empty" live album.