I wasn't aware of that. What a great story!
@r9etb 
Some backstories of songs are that way. Consider this, too:
In early 1964, Bob Gaudio---the keyboardsman for the 4 Seasons, and author or co-author of most of their songs---
was driving home from a Manhattan recording session when he stopped at a red light before turning to enter the
Lincoln Tunnel for his New Jersey home. At that intersection, one of New York's legendary squeegee kids came up
and washed his windshield. Gaudio fumbled his wallet out and found he had nothing smaller than a $5 bill. He
gave the kid---a girl---the $5 anyway. As he turned on the green light, he caught a look at her in his rearview
mirror and it haunted him how soiled she looked despite being somewhat pretty.
"She looked like a rag doll," Gaudio thought to himself.
He got home and wrote a song about her the same night, standing the story line of the Seasons' then-current
hit "Dawn (Go Away)" right on its head: now, he wrote in terms of well-off boy/girl from the wrong side of the
tracks:
The 4 Seasons, "Rag Doll"And, while he was at it, Gaudio and Seasons producer Bob Crewe stood Phil Spector on
his head, proving
you could get a "Wall of Sound"-like sound using nothing more than drums (Buddy Saltzman, the Seasons's
usual go-to drummer in the studio), bass (the Seasons' Nick Massi, who also wrote most of their vocal
arrangements), one guitar (the Seasons' Tommy DeVito), the Seasons' voices, and a glockenspiel.
A decade later, when the 4 Seasons dipped into the disco waters a bit, out popped "December 1963 (Oh What
a Night)"---written about the night that year during which Gaudio, the youngest member of the group, lost
his virginity!
