The Daily Vault has been publishing music reviews for thirteen years and the count has just passed 6,650; but not one has been featured by the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame group, The Four Seasons.<\/p>\n
The Four Seasons trace their history back to the mid-\u201850s with The Four Lovers, who had a minor hit in 1956 with \u201cYou\u2019re The Apple Of My Eye.\u201d By 1960, they had changed their name and the four members, who would be inducted into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito, and Nick Massi, were in place. They would place 48 songs on The United States singles charts, with 31 making the top forty and five becoming number one hits. There greatest success occurred during the 1960\u2019s when they were a constant presence on AM radio in the United States.<\/p>\n
Their songs may have been lightweight pop, but they were memorable lightweight pop. Their trademark was catchy music and tight harmonies with Frankie Valli\u2019s falsetto vocals floating over the top. Songs such as \u201cSherry,\u201d \u201cBig Girls Don\u2019t Cry,\u201d \u201cWalk Like A Man,\u201d \u201cDawn (Go Away),\u201d \u201cRag Doll,\u201d \u201cLet\u2019s Hang On,\u201d \u201cWorking My Way Back To You,\u201d and dozens of others have ingrained themselves into the American musical consciousness. <\/p>\n
The Four Seasons catalogue has been reissued as vinyl records, cassettes, CD\u2019s, DVD\u2019s, and probably 8-tracks as well. Any of the well-produced compilation CDs that use the original masters are worth a listen. A word of warning, however: stay away from their studio albums, as they were a singles band and their regular issue albums were basically filler centered around their hit singles of the day. <\/p>\n
The Definitive Pop Collection: Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, <\/i>issued in 2006 by Rhino\/Wea, has a good sound and covers the basics. All of their top hits are present on this two-disc compilation. It even delves a little deeper and presents some of their lesser known hits such as \u201cOpus 17,\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve Got You Under My Skin,\u201d \u201cTell It To The Rain,\u201d and C\u2019mon Marianne,\u201d which are welcome additions. I could have done without Frankie Valli\u2019s solo hits such as \u201cMy Eyes Adored You\u201d and Swearing To God,\u201d but his number one hit \u201cGrease\u201d is a nice addition.<\/p>\n
Songs by The Four Seasons are two to three minutes of pop musical bliss. They remain an essential part of the American ’60s music scene and still a fine listen over four decades later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":30484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[8640],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-42149","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-four-seasons","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42149"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=42149"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=42149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}