Jersey Boys

Jersey Boys (Music from the Motion Picture and Broadway Musical) is the soundtrack to the 2014 film Jersey Boys directed by Clint Eastwood, based on the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical of the same name. The album, released on June 24, 2014 by Rhino Entertainment, features a mix of original recordings by Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, plus new recordings from the cast members and tracks from the original Broadway cast recording. The album was preceded by the single "Cry For Me". Background In an interview to Collider, Eastwood claimed though he liked music of all kinds, such as jazz, pop he was not a fan of Frankie Valli and no idea on the music from the 1930s. However, he admired The Four Seasons' work and thought that their music was far superior and consisted mostly "energetic music". He admitted Valli's "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" was one of the "real classic songs of that era" and go down as one among any time in the history. Eastwood decided to record the singing and band performances live on set as he intended "to create seamless transitions in performance from one moment in the film to the next". In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, re-recording mixers John Reitz and Gregg Rudloff stated that the use of live vocals and music in Jersey Boys "raised the emotional performances in the scenes" and "only added to the realism." The music in the film involved four vocalists instead of solo performances, with the actors handing over a single microphone as they spoke and sang. In order to achieve the desired separation during the final mix, each actor and instrument was individually microphoned in post-production. Sound mixers Walt Martin and Tim Boot recorded the dialogue and vocals, respectively, while impulse response recordings were taken from various locations to replicate the ambiences of the venues. In post-production, the tracks were mixed by scoring mixer Bobby Fernandez, who worked with music editors Chris McGeary and Tommy Lockett.