He had two further chart successes the following year, "Save Me, Save Me" in November 1978, which entered the Billboard Easy Listening chart; and "Fancy Dancer" in January 1979, which entered the pop charts. So we took the name of the bowling alley.

[28], He also made several appearances in Seasons 5 and 6 of the HBO series The Sopranos as mobster Rusty Millio (once referred to as "The Mayor of Munchkin Land"). All of Valli's first six Top 40 solo hits were produced by Crewe, and hearing the different sounds he and Gaudio came up with for the veteran singer is half the fun of the album. He married MaryAnn Hannagan in 1974, and that marriage lasted eight years. The song was featured in a TV commercial for adidas shoes entitled "Celebrate Originality". 4. Nickie DeVito and Hank Majewski left in 1958 to be replaced by Nick Macioci (now Nick Massi) and Hugh Garrity. Closeup is an album by Frankie Valli, released in February 1975 on the Private Stock label.

The first LP, Chameleon, released by Motown subsidiary label MoWest Records in 1972, failed to sell.

A few months later, Joe Long was permanently hired and became a mainstay of the band on bass and backing vocals until 1975, with Calello returning to arranging.

Valli's desire to sing in public was initially granted when, having heard Valli sing, the group offered him a guest spot when the group performed. )[15], The change of label did not diminish the popularity of the Four Seasons in 1964, nor did the onslaught of the British Invasion and Beatlemania. The LP reached #51 on the U.S.

This CD features Frankie Valli's first two solo albums. The Very Best of Frankie Valli & The 4 Seasons. Frankie Valley

Pilooski made an electro remix of that song, while rap act Madcon used it as the basis of their song "Beggin'". I bought this for just one CD - "Close Up" with the brilliant "In My Eyes" which should have been a single.

[6] They are one of the best-selling musical groups of all time, having sold an estimated 100 million records worldwide. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2006. The Seasons' last single on Philips, 1970's "Patch of Blue", featured the band's name as "Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons", but the change in billing did not revive the band's fortunes. Other Versions (5 of 12) View All.

[13], While the label went through internal turmoil with the Beatles and Capitol Records, a separate royalty dispute between Vee-Jay and the Four Seasons headed to court.

Even after the rise and fall of the band's sales in the disco era, the Four Seasons, in one version or another (the group became a sextet as Jerry Corbetta, formerly of Sugarloaf, joined the lineup), continued to be a popular touring act, with Valli being the only constant in the midst of a fluctuating lineup. And he's local! Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2013. Sold by Amazon.com Services LLC. Billy Dixon and the Topics The Four Seasons opened 1976 atop the Billboard chart with their fifth #1 single, "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)", co-written by Bob Gaudio and his future wife, Judy Parker.

A great collection on cd. A must for any fan that doesn't have them already.

A song from Chameleon, "The Night", later became a Northern Soul hit and reached the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart, but was not commercially released in the United States as a single, although promotional copies were distributed in 1972, showing the artist as Frankie Valli. The group continued to perform until 1959, when Bob Gaudio became a member. On nearly all of their 1960s hits they were credited as the 4 Seasons. Learn how and when to remove this template message, "POSTPONED – Thursday Night's Frankie Valli Concert POSTPONED Until May", "Head Jersey Boy Frankie Valli is 83 and somehow still sings like a teen", "Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons – review", "Frankie Valli on Hair Products and Finding His Falsetto", "See the childhood homes of Springsteen, Whitney Houston & other N.J. celebs", "Long before 'Jersey Boys,' Frankie Valli stole his name from a Syracuse hillbilly singer", "Frankie Valli Q&A: Looking Back at 50 Years of The Four Seasons", "50 years on, a Jersey Boy arrives on Broadway", "Jersey Boys accuracy: Fact-checking Clint Eastwood's Four Seasons biopic", "Frankie Valli wins divorce case in California Supreme Court", "2012 Ellis Island Medal of Honor Recipients", Working My Way Back to You and More Great New Hits, The Very Best of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, Jersey Boys: Original Broadway Cast Recording, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frankie_Valli&oldid=985818777, BLP articles lacking sources from September 2016, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Articles with unsourced statements from September 2016, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 28 October 2020, at 03:35. New Releases. [2][3][4] "Frankie Valli, the original Jersey Boy, can't wait to get to Cleveland for two shows Dec. 10-11 at Palace Theatre", "The Four Seasons: Ten Years And Still Hanging On", "Gary James' Interview With The Four Seasons' Gerry Polci", "There had to be a Jewish "Jersey Boy" – and there is. In 1958, Charles Calello replaced Nick Massi on bass in the lineup. [29], In 2015, he did interviews as himself on the AMC television series The Making of the Mob: New York. Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2020. 3. Time Barrier No. [1][2] Gaudio no longer plays live, leaving Valli as the only member of the band from its inception who is touring as of 2019[update]. In the crazy business that is the record industry, this important artist, Frankie Valli, put out three albums in 1975 (two on Private Stock and one on Motown), with a seven-year lapse in hits prior to all this new activity -- the same span his group the Four Seasons had in their chart action.

Frankie's served poorly by this product.

[8][9] The same year, the quartet released their first record, Otis Blackwell's "You're the Apple of My Eye", which appeared on the Billboard Top 100 singles chart, peaking at #62. 1970 kam das Album Half & Half auf den Markt, auf dem nur die eine Hälfte aus Four-Seasons-Songs bestand, die andere Hälfte waren „Solo“-Produktionen von Frankie Valli. 2:32 PREVIEW Ivy. Although the band also scored minor chart placements with "Silver Star" (with Valli on harmony vocals) (#38 in 1976) and "Down the Hall" (#65 in 1977), both sung by Polci, and "Spend the Night in Love" (#91 in 1980), which again featured Polci as main lead vocalist and Valli singing the bridge section and contributing to backup group vocals, "December, 1963" marked the end of the Seasons' hit-making run. In 1960, the band known as The Four Lovers evolved into the Four Seasons, with Frankie Valli as the lead singer, Bob Gaudio (formerly of the Royal Teens) on keyboards and tenor vocals, Tommy DeVito on lead guitar and baritone vocals, and Nick Massi on electric bass and bass vocals.

Gollender, Walter (December 1972). Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 8, 2016. What is missing is the 1975 Motown release "Inside You" and the 2009 Motown release "Romancing the 60s". Many of Valli's solo recordings recorded before 1975 included the participation of one or more members of the Four Seasons. Buy this and re-discover Frankie Valli. "[3], In his August 1975 review for Stereo Review magazine, Peter Reilly remarked that: .mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, Frankie Valli's album and his flabby performances have a fake Fifties sound that made me think of Fabian, Annette Funicello, beach party movies, Edsels, and, eventually, the Franco-Prussian war. Frankie Valli (born 3 May 1934 in the Italian First Ward of Newark, New Jersey, USA as …

One of the albums included in this package, "Frankie Valli Solo", I had been searching for for years. This musical was adapted into a 2014 film of the same name directed by Clint Eastwood, with Young again appearing as Valli. [28], In 1998, he played the role of Frank LoCascio the former consigliere of the Gambino crime family under John Gotti's regime in the TV movie Witness to the Mob. After hearing the amount needed to buy them all, Valli arranged to purchase "My Eyes Adored You" for $4,000. The legal name of the organization is the Four Seasons Partnership, formed by Gaudio and Valli, and was taken after a failed audition in 1960. Despite the last few years of frustration of the Four Lovers, this proved to be the turning point for the band. The reason for four stars instead of five is the lack of extras in the packaging - a small booklet could have easily been accommodated in this nicely packaged set, even a single sheet for each album with the song listings would have made it much easier to review tracks. [30], Valli has been married three times. As "My Eyes Adored You" climbed the Hot 100 singles chart in early 1975, Valli and Gaudio managed to get the Four Seasons signed with Warner Bros. Records as the disco era dawned. I am a life-long Frankie Valli fan and I highly recommend this collection of his solo albums. In 1978, he sang the theme song for the film version of the stage play Grease, a song written by Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees, which became a number one hit. From 1962 to early 1964, the Beach Boys were the only band to match the Four Seasons in record sales in the United States, and their first three Vee-Jay non-holiday single releases (i.e., ignoring their version of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town") marked the first time that a rock band hit #1 on the Billboard singles charts with three consecutive entries.