The Four Seasons (Group)

The Four Seasons is an American rock band, founded in 1961 in Newark (New Jersey). The group became very popular in the 1960s, when the Group had huge hits with songs like "Sherry" and "Big Girls Don't Cry". The Four Seasons distinguished himself from other pop groups by the falsettostem of lead singer Frankie Valli and the mix of Italian-American doo-wopzang with rock and roll music. Worldwide, the Group has about a hundred million records sold.



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[hide] *1 History  ==History[ Edit] == Frankie Valli spent all in 1953 his first single from. Together with guitarist Tommy DeVito he formed later a Quartet, which performed under several names. Under the name The Four Lovers, the Group had a hit in the United States in 1956 with the song "you're the Apple of My Eye". The following years brought Valli several singles off at labels like RCA, both with the group as a solo, but managed to score any hits.
 * 2 discography
 * 2.1 Albums
 * 2.2 Singles
 * 2.3 Radio 2 Top 2000
 * 3 external links

In 1961, with the arrival of Bob Gaudio at the group, the Group's name was changed to The Four Seasons. The group consisted of lead singer Frankie Valli, keyboardist and tenor Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and lead guitarist and baritone bass bass player and Nick Massi. Success came when the group went to work with the established in Philadelphia producer Bob Crewe, which produce all their later hits went and wrote many of the songs together with Bob Gaudio. In 1962 the group released their first album, with the single "Sherry". "Sherry" was not only the first hit of the group, it was also their first number-éénhit in the US and their first international hit, which achieved the seventh place in the Dutch charts. After "Sherry" several other major hits, including "Big Girls Don't Cry", "Walk Like a Man" and "Candy Girl". For a short time golden The Four Seasons as one of the biggest music groups in the us, only surpassed in popularity by The Beach Boys, with which they were regularly compared.

In 1964 left the group for Vee Jay Records, Philips Records. The British invasion, who was then the pop music in his grip in the beginning, had had no impact on the popularity of the group. One of their biggest hits from that era was "Rag Doll", their fourth number-éénhit. They kept scoring hits to 1967, although songs like "Let's Hang On", "Working My Way Back to You", "Opus 17", "I've Got You Under My Skin", "C'mon Marianne"Beggin'"and" were less successful. Also during that period, they released singles under the name The Wonder Who?, including the Bob Dylan-cover "Don't Think Twice".

After 1967, the popularity of the group. The public became more interested in soul and rock harder than in harmonious pop. All singles that were released in the years after 1967 flopten. Frankie Valli was meanwhile in addition to his work for The Four Seasons in 1967 started a solo career and had a big hit with the song "Can't Take My Eyes Off You", which later would be covered several times. After the success of those hits took the group from time to time songs under the name Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons.

It took only until 1975 before the Group made a comeback . Meanwhile the group in 1971 had signed to a subsidiary of Motown. Valli and Gaudio at the time were the only remaining members. After a few knew The Four Seasons plates again flopped in 1975 to score a hit with songs like "Who Loves You", "Silver Star" and "December 1963 (Oh What a Night)". At the same time, his career as a solo artist again saw Valli a resurgence with the success of the singles "My Eyes Adored You" and "Swearin' to God".

Frankie Valli in 1978 still had a worldwide hit with the title song of the highly successful musical film Grease, but then he knew no successes to achieve more with the sale of plates, or solo, nor with The Four Seasons, with the exception of a remix of "December 1963" in 1988. The group still exists and is also still on. In 1990 the Group was included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 2005 went a musical premiere about the group, called Jersey Boys . The musical received positive critical acclaim and won several Tony Awards.

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