January 1963.

When you’re only half awake, the high pitched warbling intro for this can easily be mistaken for a Monday morning alarm going off. No seriously, it can. Then you realise that you’re on two weeks ‘holiday’ so it’s not an alarm. It’s just the inner jukebox, and it’s still taking the piss.

Written by US songwriters and producers Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio, this was originally recorded by The Four Seasons in a recording session that was fraught with difficulty.

A fire in the room above the recording studio should have halted the session, but, Crewe was insistent on recording the perfect take – even when water and smoke began to seep in to the studio. He simply barricaded the doors and carried on regardless, until a fire crew broke down the door and dragged him out of there.

At least it was all worth it in the end. The single became the group’s third number one hit in the US, spending three weeks at the top of the chart there as well as giving them a number one in New Zealand. Here in the UK it spent twelve weeks on the chart and peaked at number twelve.