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The Four Seasons were really hitting a creative sweet spot when the tracks on this LP were broadcast via music TV shows such as Popendipity, Hullabaloo, and the Mike Douglas Show. The Sandy Linzer/Denny Randell songwriting/production team crafted stomping, four-to-the-floor Motown-style productions on the hits "Let's Hang On" and "Working My Way Back To You" with the legendary Buddy Salzman creating the distinctive drum sound. Later in 1966, Bob Gaudio came up with an arrangement of Cole Porter's "I've Got You Under My Skin" that made the song sound just like a Four Seasons track with its killer hook coda "Never win, never win" added at the insistence of producer Bob Crewe. Frankie Valli began his solo recording career by insisting that his composers provide material that did not require him to use falsetto and his first release was the Bob Crewe/Charlie Calello composition "(You're Gonna) Hurt Yourself." "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" was Valli's first number one, despite Philips having mothballed the finished record for almost a year because they feared it might break the group up. Here are two live versions of Frankie's Christmas 1967 single "To Give," both with full orchestral backing. For a live broadcast on NBC's Kraft Music Hall show in July 1968, the Four Seasons previewed "Saturday's Father," a track to be released on the 1969 psychedelic concept album Genuine Imitation Life Gazette. This LP also includes as a bonus track a hits medley from a 1971 transmission from BBC's Top Of The Pops.
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DOY 701LP
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Originally released in 1962. "What could be more in keeping with the joyous Christmas season than the exciting, happily spirited 'sound' of The Four Seasons? In this album, the boys add their own distinctive styling to as many of your Yuletide favorites, as could possibly be grooved onto one LP disc. All involved in the production of this album agreed the best way to send out The Four Seasons Greetings was by devoting one entire side to the traditionally-loved Christmas carols, in brand-new, beautifully-arranged medleys, which might be better called "A Christmas Carol Concert by The Four Seasons." The other side is aglow with such popular perennial treasures as 'White Christmas,' 'The Christmas Song,' 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus,' 'Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,' etc., and a brand-new song, 'Christmas Tears,' which is destined to become a standard among the great Christmas songs. Hear now, for your listening pleasure, The Four Seasons' Greetings to you." --from the original liner notes; "I've Cried Before" and "Connie-O" are bonus tracks taken from 7" B-sides.
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DOY 700LP
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The Four Seasons released their first single in 1961 ("Bermuda"/"Spanish Lace"). While the single did not chart, the songs gave the group enough of a following to be signed with Vee Jay Records late that year. In 1962, the group released their first album featuring the single "Sherry," which was not only their first chart hit but also their first number one song, soon becoming a multi-million-copies hit in the USA, followed up by their other great hit single, "Big Girls Don't Cry." From 1962 to early 1964, only the Beach Boys matched The Four Seasons in record sales in the United States. The history of this legendary band recently inspired Clint Eastwood for his Jersey Boys movie. A great reissue, including two bonus tracks: the first single "Bermuda/Spanish Lace." Pressed on 180 gram vinyl.
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