Frankie Valli

Frankie Valli (Newark, may 3, 1934), born Francis Stephen Castelluccio, is an American singer of Italian descent. He is best known as the lead singer of The Four Seasons.

Tommy DeVitoformed together with Valli, Nick Massi, and Bob Gaudio The Four Seasons. With this group, he scored big hits around the world with songs like Sherry, Big Girls Don't Cry, Walk Like a Man, Rag Doll and December 1963 (Oh, What a Night).



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[hide] *1 music career  ==Music Career[ Edit] == Frankie Valli began his professional music career in 1951. He was noticed by the Variety Triogroup consisting of Nickie DeVito, Tommy DeVito and Nick Macioci. But a year later, however, split the group up and went further with Tommy DeVito Valli. Together they were a member of the band who always performed in The Strand in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Valli sang and played bass guitar.
 * 2 Trivia
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In 1953 he recorded his first single, My mother's Eyes, under the name "Frankie Valley". He had that name based on the singer Jean Valley. Around this time DeVito and Valli decided to leave The Strand and formed a new group. This group, The around this time, also included Hank Majewski, Frank Cattone and Billy Thompson.

In 1956 were looking for a group to act as background singers for a well-known singer. The Group auditioned and was noticed by Peter Paul, a sound engineer from New York. He left the group a week later audition at RCA Records. From now on, the group went through life as The Four Lovers. They recorded several singles on and scored a minor hit with the song " you're the Apple of My Eye. Later also added some other musicians joined the group, including Nickie DeVito and Nick Macioci, calling themselves now Nick Massi mentioned. They continued to occur until 1959, when Bob Gaudio became a member of the group. From early 60 's they went through life as The Four Seasons .

With The Four Seasons Valli scored several hits. In 1962 he returned to number 1 with the song Sherry. Also more frequently during the 1960s went Valli solo. With the help of producer Bob Crewe he took on various solo projects including The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore), which later became a great success when it was covered by The Walker Brothers. Valli scored a hit Later with Can't Take My Eyes Off You. The song came in the United States never higher than place 2 in the charts (though the cover of the Boys Town Gang a number 1-hit in Netherlands), but is generally considered to be a worldwide hit.

In the 1970s came Valli less often, but he again scored a hit with the song " My Eyes Adored You. The most famous work of Valli during the 1970s, however, was the title song for the Grease film of the same name from 1978. Both the film and the title song became world-wide a great success. This song was even a number-1-hit in the Dutch Top 40. ==Trivia[ Edit] == ==Singles<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Radio 2 Top 2000<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * In season 5 and 6 of the HBO series The Sopranos was to see in the role of Valli Mafia member Rusty Millio.
 * In 2009 was a cover of his song Beggin' by Madcon (based on a remix from 2007 by the French DJ Pilooski) still a hit and there was also a separate video clip when created.