“I'm kind of happy to know there may be some kid or teenager now who might never have had the chance to see my Broadway performance, but gets a taste for what it might have been like now, because they can see Clint Eastwood's film."” KnowsKindMayHas BeensMightKidsFilmChanceTastePerformancesTeenagerBroadwayMight Have Been Author:John Lloyd Young
“I approach the singing kind of like with dialect thoughts in my mind. I have to sound like this on certain things to give that Frankie Valli flavor.” GivingMindKindCertainSoundApproachSingingFlavorDialect Author:John Lloyd Young
“I think Frankie Valli did everything right. He kept singing. And you also have to remember, he was confined to a certain society, which was this sort of like - the wrong side of the law kind of society of Italian guys from the streets of Belleville, New Jersey. So he found his way.” ThinkingWayKindRememberLawGuyCertainFoundSidesStreetsSingingItalianJerseyConfinedNew Jersey Author:John Lloyd Young
“I think one of the ways that these young singers got started is that they would end up in clubs. And a lot of them were mafia owned. And so there was almost an unspoken kind of mafia sponsorship, which is just a very interesting part of that area's music history.” ThinkingWayKindEndsYoungInterestingAreasClubsSingersVery InterestingMafiaUnspokenSponsorship Author:John Lloyd Young