Jersey Babys - The Music Of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons For Kids
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Artist: Jersey BabysEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-04-15
Music Label: Rhino Records
Soundtracks:
- Big Girls Don't Dry (Album Version)
- Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You (Album Version)
- Cry For Me (Album Version)
- Dawn [Go Away] (Album Version)
- December 1963 [Oh, What A Night] (Album Version)
- December 1963 [Oh, What A Night] [Reprise] (Album Version)
- Rag Doll (Album Version)
- Ronnie (Album Version)
- Save It For Me (Album Version)
- Sherry / Walk Like A Man (Album Version)
- Short Shorts (Album Version)
- Silence Is Golden (Album Version)
- Who Loves You (Album Version)
Free Music Notes for The Music Of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons For Kids
Free Music Review: For the Young and Young at Heart
Hit: 5 Stars
I got my hands on and listened to the new Rhino release Jersey Babys: The Music of Frankie Valli and the 4 Seasons for Kids. In fact, I'm listening over and over again as I write this.
In a word, it's delightful. Danielle Gaudio had a terrific idea, and after years of badgering her father Bob Gaudio to help her with the music, she and her brother Shannon Gaudio, a design whiz, have packaged the project brilliantly.
I expected to enjoy it, since I'm a sucker for anything remotely related to FV4S, even a kids' instrumental album. But I didn't really expect to enjoy it so much. It has a tremendous variety of sounds and tempos. What could have been monotonous is relentlessly surprising and a lot of fun. In its own way, it is as beautiful as any of the other FV4S instrumental albums. It will do at least as much for young brains, and mature brains, as Mozart.
I will leave it to others more musically adept to describe the sounds. The 4 Seasons were renowned for using claps, stomps and other non-standard homemade noises. This album carries that tradition to new heights. There are plenty of chimes, clock tick-tocks and what sounds like penny whistles and kazoos. The only instruments credited are the magical keyboards of Robby Robinson. If that's all he used, he must have the most versatile keyboards in creation.
The first thing you notice about the track list is that these are all Gaudio songs. Hmmm. Ms. Gaudio, the Executive Producer, seems to be exhibiting some bias here. We should all have children so proud and loyal.
I don't know, though, how effective this album will be in getting kids to sleep. It never gets into a rut. Mixed in with the beautiful slower numbers are much livelier ones. "Short Shorts" is a riot, and I particularly love the very creative arrangement of "Who Loves You." The only suggestion I would have made to Messrs Robinson and Gaudio is that they speed up the tempo of "Dawn (Go Away)," since it is placed between the also-slow "Silence is Golden" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You." (There. With that negative comment, this qualifies as a real review instead of a love letter.)
You can see the influence of the play Jersey Boys, and not just in the cover design. Like the play, Jersey Babys begins and ends with December 1963 "Oh, What a Night." There's "Cry For Me," not well known until Jersey Boys, and "Short Shorts," not technically a FV4S song, but why nitpick? There's even the new Jersey Boys ending to "Walk Like a Man," which was not on the original record.
But I'm thrilled that the album didn't just follow slavishly the Jersey Boys formula for success. Instead of including "Big Man in Town" and "Beggin'," which are among the highlights of Jersey Boys, the producers changed up with three of "The Ones That Got Away": "Ronnie," "Save It For Me" and "Silence is Golden." These are three of the most gorgeous melodies Bob Gaudio ever wrote, and they are done gorgeously on this album.
They will help Jersey Boys fans realize that the play barely scratches the surface of 4 Seasons' great catalog. Surely the kids weaned on Jersey Babys will need to hear all the original recordings by age 2 or 3 at the latest.
I close with the words of "Barry Belson, WCFA Radio": "What can I say? I LOVE THIS RECORD!!!"
Congratulations to everyone involved, Charles Alexander
The Music Of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons For Kids Poster
Don't let the title fool you. It's not just for kids! Hit songs like "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Can't Take My Eyes Off You," "Walk Like A Man," and "Oh, What A Night" will captivate all ears and bring smiles to listeners of all ages. Bob Gaudio, who was an original member of The 4 Seasons and the group's chief songwriter, won a Grammy Award for the remarkable Jersey Boys - Original Broadway Cast Recording. His daughter Danielle Gaudio-Lalehzar, wanting her own children - and all children - to share in the Jersey Boys experience, persuaded her father to refashion his hit songs into new versions intended for babies and kids. Each arrangement has its own signature sound, which gives this new release a unique quality.Children's Music Music CDs
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