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"(talking about Frankie) He's a good kid, he just needs a little, y'know, guidance."
"Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. We're the Variety Trio. (to band) ...three, four! (to audience) And now, a new discovery of mine, little Frankie Casteluccio."
"You ask four guys how it happened, you get four different versions. And this is where all of them start. A thousand years ago. Eisenhower. Rocky Marciano. And a few guys under a streetlamp singing somebody else's latest hit."
"They ask ya "what was the high point?" The Hall of Fame, sellin' all those records, pullin' Sherry outta the hat? It was all great. But the first time the four of us made that sound, our sound... when everything dropped away and all there was was the music... that was the best."
"That's why I'm still out there singin', like that bunny on TV with the battery, I just keep goin' and goin' and goin'... chasin' the music, tryin' to get home."
"...I never heard a voice like Frankie Valli's. After eight bars, I know I need to write for this voice."
"John Lloyd Young - Frankie Valli"
"Christian Hoff - Tommy DeVito"
"Daniel Reichard - Bob Gaudio"
"J. Robert Spencer - Nick Massi"
"Peter Gregus - Bob Crewe"
"Mark Lotito - Gyp DeCarlo"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.