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TIL that the Four Season's hit, ""December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)", was originally set in 1933 with the title "December 5th, 1933," and celebrated the repeal of Prohibition. The lyrics were changed at the behest of Franki Valli to reset the song as a remembrance of a man's first affair w a woman.

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