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Sherry (song)

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"Sherry Baby"
Single by The Four Seasons
from the album Sherry & 11 Others
B-side	I've Cried Before (non-LP track later included on Golden Hits of the 4 Seasons album)
Released	August 1962
Format	7"
Genre	Rock
Length	2:32
Label	Vee-Jay Records
Writer(s)	Bob Gaudio
Producer	Bob Crewe
The Four Seasons singles chronology
Bermuda/Spanish Lace (1961) Sherry Baby (1962) Big Girls Don't Cry (1962)

"Sherry Baby" is a song written by Bob Gaudio and originally recorded by The Four Seasons. It was their first nationally-released single and also their first number one hit, initially reaching the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 on September 15, 1962. It remained at number one for five consecutive weeks, and number one on the R&B charts for one week.
According to Gaudio, the song took about 15 minutes to write and was originally titled "Jackie Baby" (in honor of then-First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy).^[1]
At the studio, the name was changed to "Terri Baby", and then eventually to "Sherry Baby," the name of the daughter of Gaudio's best friend, New York disk jockey Jack Spector (one of the names that Gaudio pondered for the song was "Peri Baby," which was the name of the record label for which Bob Crewe worked, named after the label owner's daughter). ^[2]