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During his time with the Critters, he wrote "[[Mr. Dieingly Sad]]", produced by [[Artie Ripp]], which reached #17 for the group. He also wrote and recorded "There's Got to be a Word",<ref>{{Citation|title=DON CICCONE - THERE'S GOT TO BE A WORD|date=September 11, 2010|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMpLOYUFqKM|access-date=July 17, 2019}}</ref> which was later recorded and released by the Innocence in December 1966. Their version reached #34 on the charts. Facing the threat of being drafted into the Armed Forces, Ciccone left The Critters to enlist in the [[United States Air Force]].<ref name=jamesinterview/> |
During his time with the Critters, he wrote "[[Mr. Dieingly Sad]]", produced by [[Artie Ripp]], which reached #17 for the group. He also wrote and recorded "There's Got to be a Word",<ref>{{Citation|title=DON CICCONE - THERE'S GOT TO BE A WORD|date=September 11, 2010|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMpLOYUFqKM|access-date=July 17, 2019}}</ref> which was later recorded and released by the Innocence in December 1966. Their version reached #34 on the charts. Facing the threat of being drafted into the Armed Forces, Ciccone left The Critters to enlist in the [[United States Air Force]].<ref name=jamesinterview/> |
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After Ciccone's time in the service, [[Frankie Valli]] recruited him to join a revamped lineup of [[The Four Seasons (band)|The Four Seasons]], where he played guitar and bass and contributed lead vocals to songs including "[[December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)]]" and "Rhapsody".<ref name=StarHerald>{{cite news|title= Don Ciccone, singer of 1960s group The Critters, has died|url= http://www.starherald.com/entertainment/national/don-ciccone-singer-of-s-group-the-critters-has-died/article_027707fa-0ade-555a-aecd-ec178b997479.html|access-date= |
After Ciccone's time in the service, [[Frankie Valli]] recruited him to join a revamped lineup of [[The Four Seasons (band)|The Four Seasons]], where he played guitar and bass and contributed lead vocals to songs including "[[December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)]]" and "Rhapsody".<ref name=StarHerald>{{cite news|title= Don Ciccone, singer of 1960s group The Critters, has died |url= http://www.starherald.com/entertainment/national/don-ciccone-singer-of-s-group-the-critters-has-died/article_027707fa-0ade-555a-aecd-ec178b997479.html|access-date=October 28, 2016|newspaper =Scottsbluff Star-Herald |date= October 12, 2016}}</ref> Ciccone was the original lead singer on the Seasons' comeback hit "[[Who Loves You (song)|Who Loves You]]" before Valli, who was overseas during the original recording, refused to relinquish his role as lead vocalist and replaced most of Ciccone's vocal with his own.<ref name=jamesinterview/> After leaving the Four Seasons in 1981, he spent time running a commercial jingle business.<ref name=jamesinterview/> He joined [[Tommy James and the Shondells]] as their bassist through 1987.<ref name="HeraldNews">{{cite news|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/heraldnews/obituary.aspx?n=don-ciccone&pid=181823950|title=Don Ciccone|date=October 12, 2016|newspaper=[[Herald News]]|access-date=October 14, 2016}}</ref> |
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In the early 2010s, Ciccone, at the time performing with a partially re-formed Critters lineup, suggested to his former Four Seasons bandmate [[Lee Shapiro (musician)|Lee Shapiro]] that they assemble a [[supergroup (music)|supergroup]] consisting of musicians assembled from other bands. Ciccone recruited his Critters bandmate Jimmy Ryan to join Shapiro and [[Gerry Polci]] (partially capitalizing on the ''[[Jersey Boys]]'' resurgence in the Four Seasons' popularity) to form The Hit Men, a group that continues several years after Ciccone died with Shapiro as its manager.<ref>{{cite web|date=March 21, 2013|title=The Hit Men are coming|url= https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/The-Hit-Men-are-coming-4374272.php|access-date= July 24, 2020|publisher= newstimes}}</ref><ref name=jamesinterview>{{cite web|title=Gary James' Interview With Don Ciccone Of The Four Seasons|url= http://www.classicbands.com/FourSeasonsInterview.html|access-date= July 24, 2020|publisher= classicbands.com|first=Gary|last=James}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Long after Frankie Valli, the Hit Men are still making music|url= https://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/long-after-frankie-valli-the-hit-men-are-still-making-music,514404#:~:text=Don%20Ciccone%2C%20also%20one%20of%20the%20Four%20Seasons,and%20numerous%20others%2C%20to%20multiple%20myeloma%20last%20December.|access-date= July 24, 2020|newspaper=The Berkshire Eagle|date=July 21, 2017|first=David|last=Porter}}</ref> |
In the early 2010s, Ciccone, at the time performing with a partially re-formed Critters lineup, suggested to his former Four Seasons bandmate [[Lee Shapiro (musician)|Lee Shapiro]] that they assemble a [[supergroup (music)|supergroup]] consisting of musicians assembled from other bands. Ciccone recruited his Critters bandmate Jimmy Ryan to join Shapiro and [[Gerry Polci]] (partially capitalizing on the ''[[Jersey Boys]]'' resurgence in the Four Seasons' popularity) to form The Hit Men, a group that continues several years after Ciccone died with Shapiro as its manager.<ref>{{cite web|date=March 21, 2013|title=The Hit Men are coming|url= https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/The-Hit-Men-are-coming-4374272.php|access-date= July 24, 2020|publisher= newstimes}}</ref><ref name=jamesinterview>{{cite web|title=Gary James' Interview With Don Ciccone Of The Four Seasons|url= http://www.classicbands.com/FourSeasonsInterview.html|access-date= July 24, 2020|publisher= classicbands.com|first=Gary|last=James}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Long after Frankie Valli, the Hit Men are still making music|url= https://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/long-after-frankie-valli-the-hit-men-are-still-making-music,514404#:~:text=Don%20Ciccone%2C%20also%20one%20of%20the%20Four%20Seasons,and%20numerous%20others%2C%20to%20multiple%20myeloma%20last%20December.|access-date= July 24, 2020|newspaper=The Berkshire Eagle|date=July 21, 2017|first=David|last=Porter}}</ref> |
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