Angelo M. "Chubby" Cifelli (born March 27, 1939) is an American, singer, composer, and guitarist who grew up in Harrison

Harrison, New Jersey

Harrison is a town in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the town's population was 13,620. The town is a suburb of the nearby city of Newark, New Jersey.-Geography:Harrison is located at ....

, New Jersey

New Jersey

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 and attended Barringer High School

Barringer High School

Barringer High School, formerly Newark High School, is a four-year comprehensive public high school in Newark, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Newark Public Schools. Some consider it to be the third oldest public high school in the United States...

 in Newark

Newark, New Jersey

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. As a musician he performed and wrote songs for Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. He first learned guitar in 1956 from Tommy DeVito

Tommy DeVito (musician)

Tommy DeVito is an American musician and singer, best known as a founding member and the lead guitarist of the rock band The Four Seasons....

. He joined the Tradewinds in 1959 and the group had a hit single with "Furry Murray". The group performed on Dick Clark's American Bandstand

American Bandstand

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to promote the release of the single.

Songwriting

In the early 1960s, Cifelli teamed up with Mike Petrillo of Belleville, NJ

Belleville, New Jersey

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. They were introduced to each other by Frankie Valli

Frankie Valli

Frankie Valli is an American musician, most famous as frontman of The Four Seasons. He is well-known for his unusually powerful falsetto singing voice...

. Petrillo is an accomplished tenor saxophonist and plays solo sax lead on "Opus 17 (Don't You Worry 'bout Me)

Opus 17 (Don't You Worry 'bout Me)

"Opus 17 " is a song composed by Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell and recorded by The Four Seasons in 1966 for their album Working My Way Back to You...

" by Valli and the Four Seasons.

In 1967, Cifelli and Petrillo co-wrote "Tell It to the Rain

Tell It to the Rain

"Tell It to the Rain" is a song composed by Mike Petrillo and Chubby Cifelli and popularized by The Four Seasons in 1966 and early 1967. The single reached the #10 position on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart....

", a hit for Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons which reached number 10 on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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Hot 100. The duo also wrote several other songs for Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons including "Fox in the Bush" and "Expression of Love". In 2003, Joe Pesci

Joe Pesci

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recorded "Fox In The Bush".