"C'mon Marianne"
Single by The Four Seasons
from the album New Gold Hits
B-side"Let's Ride Again"
ReleasedMay 1967[1]
Genre
Length2:33
LabelPhilips
Songwriter(s)L. Russell Brown, Raymond Bloodworth
Producer(s)Bob Crewe
The Four Seasons singles chronology
"Beggin'"
(1967)		 "C'mon Marianne"
(1967)		 "Lonesome Road"
(1967)
"C'mon Marianne"
Single by Donny Osmond
from the album Disco Train
B-side"Old Man Auctioneer"
ReleasedMay 1977
GenrePop, Pop rock
LabelKolob
Songwriter(s)L. Russell Brown, Raymond Bloodworth
Producer(s)Mike Curb
Donny Osmond singles chronology
"I Have a Dream"
(1975)		 "C'mon Marianne"
(1977)		 "(You've Got Me) Dangling on a String"
(1977)

"C'mon Marianne" is a song composed by L. Russell Brown and Raymond Bloodworth and popularized by The Four Seasons in 1967. Produced by Bob Crewe, the single was the last Four Seasons single to reach the Top Ten of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the 1960s, and their last Top Ten hit until "Who Loves You" in 1975.

"C'mon Marianne" hit the charts less than a month after lead singer Frankie Valli's "solo" (with Four Seasons participation) hit, "Can't Take My Eyes Off You", hit No. 2. Originally on the New Gold Hits album, a different version of the song was distributed on promotional singles distributed to disk jockeys and released commercially, but when people did not react positively to a recording that was slower than and mixed differently from the "more familiar" LP version, the single was replaced with the album version. Ultimately, "C'mon Marianne" reached the No. 9 position on the Hot 100.[3]

This song begins with Acapella in B-Flat Major, with the first verse beginning in G Minor. After the repeated refrains, which ends in a descending vocal repeat of "Marianne", making it sound like a psychedelic song, the key of the song descends to the second verse that begins in F-Sharp Minor, with the repeated refrains in A Major, before the song's fade out.

Cash Box called it an "infectious, fast-moving toe-tapper."[4]

The song sported a riff which The Doors also appropriated in their 1968 single "Touch Me".

In the following year, 1968, the song was covered by Grapefruit, a London-based group headed by Glaswegian George Alexander (b. Alexander Young), who was the older brother of George Young (from The Easybeats) and of Malcolm and Angus Young of AC/DC. The single, their third, also appeared on their first album, Around Grapefruit (1968).

In 1976, Donny Osmond recorded "C'mon Marianne" (with the Osmond Brothers providing backing vocals) and it was released on his album Disco Train as well as the Donny and Marie album Featuring Songs from Their Television Show. The song reached No. 38 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 25 on the magazine's Easy Listening chart.[5]

Songwriter L. Russell Brown would compose (or co-compose) a string of hit records in the 1970s, including several recorded by Dawn featuring Tony Orlando.

Chart history

References

  1. ↑ The Four Seasons; Frankie Valli (1991), Greatest Hits, Volume 2, Internet Archive, Warner Special Products, retrieved 2023-01-30
  2. 1 2 A. Guarisco, Donald. "C'mon Marianne review". Allmusic. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
  3. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits: Eighth Edition. Record Research. p. 238.
  4. ↑ "CashBox Record Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. June 3, 1967. p. 22. Retrieved 2022-01-12.
  5. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 187.
  6. ↑ "RPM Top 100 Singles - July 29, 1967" (PDF).
  7. ↑ Flavour of New Zealand, 25 August 1967
  8. ↑ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  9. ↑ "Cash Box Top 100 Singles, July 29, 1967". Archived from the original on June 17, 2019. Retrieved June 17, 2019.
  10. ↑ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  11. ↑ "RPM Top 100 Singles - August 7, 1976" (PDF).
  12. ↑ "RPM Top 100 Singles - January 6, 1968" (PDF).
  13. ↑ "Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 23, 1967". Archived from the original on September 30, 2018. Retrieved June 17, 2019.



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