Frankie Valli & Four Seasons - Very Best of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
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Free Music Notes for Very Best of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
Free Music Review: Oh, what a CD
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a real score for both fans of Franki Valli and for Rhino records. This best of gathers songs from all phases of the band's career and Valli's solo albums, from various labels and multiple decades. From those first memorable singles "Sherry" and "Big Girls Don't Cry" on Vee-Jay (a label that was an early US host of The Beatles) to Valli scoring a number one with the Grease Soundtrack theme song, you can follow pop styles and trends through Valli's falsetto.
While those coming to this CD via the success of the Jersey Boys Broadway show will be taken aback by the primitive sound of the early records, the production was still very pristine for the times. The horse-clops on "Walk Like a Man" or the chimes on "Dawn (Go Away)" show savvy, and the 70's comeback of "Who Loves You" or "Swearin' To God" hail the omnipotence of the disco era. Add some great liner notes, and you have the best Four Seasons comp available. Take a little stroll down the Jersey Boardwalk with Sherry, Candy, Ronnie, Dawn and Marrianne...and Franki Valli.
Free Music Review: Excellent collection of a great group
Hit: 5 Stars
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons were hugely successful in America, where they had a long string of major hits, especially in the sixties. They were less successful in Britain but still managed seven top ten hits including a number one. Here you can find all the classics. From the sixties, there are Sherry, Big girls don't cry, Walk like a man, Rag doll, Let's hang on and many others. From the seventies, there are My eyes adored you, Who loves you, December '63 Oh what a night (their only British number one hit) and Grease. Two obvious omissions from the seventies are Night (a track recorded for Motown) and Silver star ( a UK top three hit), but you can't include everything by such a successful group.Aside from their own hits, covers of their songs were also successful for others. Four of their songs were UK number one hits for others. Their versions of Silence is golden (Tremeloes) and The sun ain't gonna shine anymore (Walker brothers) are not included, but you do get their original versions of Bye bye baby (Bay city rollers) and Working my way back to you (Detroit Spinners).
This is an excellent single CD collection of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, one of the best American groups of the sixties and seventies.
Free Music Review: The absolutely amazing Frankie!
Hit: 5 Stars
I made a review of this wonderful album before being 100% familiar with this; just being excited over the couple of songs previously named. I am not doing that this time. Every song is better than the last; for that there is no need to name individual songs. This album includes the best of the best, and the sound quality on here is totally fabulous!Naysayers may say that the Beach Boys or the Beatles were the best; while those are great bands nobody nearly compares to the wonderful Frankie and his awesome band. Listening to this a few times over & over again made me buy more Frankie!
I now also own the great In Seasons anthology; the terrific single-disc Anthology, the Off Seasons collection (love that as much as the biggest of hits ... check out Big Man's World & Coming Up In The World) & now the drumroll please .... I managed to find a NEW (!) copy of the 25th Anniversary Collection, and found a million more reasons to fall in love with Frankie (like I needed them ... )
Please do a favor to yourself & buy this one first. You will discover very quickly just how wonderful the Four Seasons really are and will want to rush out to buy more fast!
Free Music Review: Even if you think you only like Mozart.....
Hit: 5 Stars
This CD has all of my favorite Four Seasons hits of the early '60's, which was when I became a big fan, plus the hits from later on. I've always been mainly a classical music guy, and back then I wasn't much into pop. In fact, the only times I heard it were when someone else had a radio on. I never knew what I was hearing, but a few of those songs that came out of the radio really "grabbed" me, and I would go around humming them. And then I found out that they were ALL by the Four Seasons!
What was it that made those Four Seasons songs so appealing to a classical music guy? Well, there are a lot of things -- the distinctive style, the clean classical harmonies (although with occasional audacious modulations into new keys), the crisp rhythms, the precise execution, and the great shaping of each phrase and of the larger whole.
The Four Seasons are simply timeless, and to me they're a true crossover. It's great that their old hits are being reissued in these collections.
Free Music Review: Much More Than Frankie Valli
Hit: 5 Stars
Those reviewers who seem to think Frankie Valli basically was the Fours Seasons only show their ignorance. Most of the Seasons' most famous songs were written by some combination of the group's keyboardist and guitarist Bob Gaudio and/or their producer Bob Crewe and/or some of his in-house songwriters. Additionally, Gaudio and Crewe each wrote some songs in solo. Without them, you would not likely have ever heard of either Frankie Valli or what would become the Four Seasons, and even if you did, it would be for some extremely obscure songs Valli recorded in the 1950's. Furthermore, bassist and vocal arranger Nick Massi (from 1960 to 1965) was most responsible for designing the Seasons' unique sound, a fact Valli is quick to note.
That said, listen to this album and be born again. Or discover the Seasons for the first time, and do listen to more than just "Sherry," "Walk Like a Man," or "December 1963," like all the other shallow divers do.