Reply to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Form Letter

Replies to the standard Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Form Letter:
If you write or email The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame you will receive the standard form letter they send to everyone where they just insert "Joe Long" in the "musician's name" field and "The Four Seasons" in the "group's name field.
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After attending a performance of Jersey Boys in New York I was introduced to Joe Long who I remembered from my youth as the bassist and back-up singer of the Four Seasons. I new he was not one of the original members just as Clarence Clemons was not one of the original members of the E-street band or Ron Wood was not one of the original members of the Rolling Stones and so on and so on. I was then shown a response that you kindly wrote to a member of the committee formed to request the the Hall of Fame to reevaluate its oversight in not including Joe Long with the original members inducted in your Hall. NIck Massi was an original member but left the group in 1964. You might know Joe Long performed with the group from 1965 to 1975 and contributed to the group's success to the same degree if not more then Nick Massi. I then reread your letter and found your thinking flawed to an alarming degree. I then obtained a list of those members of groups that have been inducted and became embarrassed to see individuals inducted, who based on your criteria, should not even been considered for induction. I then thought however, better to include those individuals rather then exclude them for the honor that maybe I am not seeing. Joe Long, however, does meet all the criteria and the committee or whatever you call yourself, should make this correction.
Also, as discussion for another day, how in the world could the group "Chicago" not be in the Rock Hall of Fame.

Let's Hang On!!!!
Howard Littman