Vee-Jay continued to produce one Beatles album (in various forms) in defiance of the cancellation. The Beatles and Golden Hits of the Four Seasons, featuring each original album's label, title, and catalog number. Frankie Valley Valli, Tommy DeVito, Nick Massi and Bob Gaudio – the original members of the Four Seasons – were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame … This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/topic/the-Four-Seasons-American-music-group, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - The Four Seasons, The Vocal Group Hall of Fame Foundation - The Four Seasons, The History of Rock 'n' Roll - The Four Seasons. The legal name of the organization is the Four Seasons Partnership, formed by Gaudio and Valli, and was taken after a failed audition in 1960. 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In 2018, the Beard/Fournier/Brigham quartet spun off and began performing as The Modern Gentlemen, with Valli's blessing, and Valli recruited a new quartet of singers to back him. "My Eyes Adored You" was also a Top 10 hit in the United Kingdom in February of that year. Find The Four Seasons bio, music, credits, awards, & streaming links on AllMusic - New Jersey vocal group who were perennial pop… There are currently three U.S. productions of Jersey Boys running outside New York and other productions overseas including productions in Toronto, London, Australia, South Africa and The Netherlands. The album Who Loves You became a surprise million-seller for the band, as it was the first Four Seasons album to prominently feature lead vocals by anyone other than Valli ("Sorry" on Half & Half had featured Gaudio, DeVito and Long minus Valli, while "Wall Street Village Day" on Genuine Imitation Life Gazette featured Valli on just a couple of 'bridge' section lead vocal lines). Beard, Fournier and the Brigham brothers performed as The Four Seasons for 15 years, longer than any other lineup and longer than any of the band's other singers except Valli and Gaudio. The author of the book of the play, Rick Elice, interviewed Valli, Gaudio, and DeVito in writing the play, and pieced together Nick Massi's point of view based on those interviews (Massi had died before the play was written.) Summer’s full title is “Concerto No. [3], The Four Seasons were one of only two American bands (the other being the Beach Boys) to enjoy substantial chart success before, during, and after the British Invasion. Vee-Jay exercised those rights liberally over the following year. Later that year, the Four Lovers were performing in Baltimore on the same stage as the Royal Teens, who were riding the wave of success of "Short Shorts", a song co-written by then-15-year-old Bob Gaudio, who was also the Royal Teens' keyboardist. After leaving Philips, the Four Seasons recorded a one-off single for the Warner Bros. label in England, "Sleeping Man", backed by "Whatever You Say", which was never released in the USA. [14] In the 1965 settlement of the lawsuit, Vee-Jay retained release rights for all material the band recorded for the label. These recordings have been reissued on a variety of labels, some of which are noted here. The group was obligated to deliver one final album to Vee-Jay, which they did in the form of a "faux" live LP. They were written around 1721 and were published in 1725 in Amsterdam. The Four Seasons were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. The Four Seasons are an American rock band that became internationally successful in the 1960s and 1970s. The demands of mass production, the cash-flow problems involved, and the loss of the Beatles when Trans-Global (a firm licensed by EMI to distribute its products) canceled Vee-Jay's contract on August 3, 1963, due to non-payment of royalties, found Vee-Jay hard-pressed to stay afloat. Although Gaudio is still officially part of the band (he and Valli are still equal partners in the Four Seasons Partnership), he now restricts his activities to writing, producing, and the occasional studio work. The US chart position on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart follows the song title. The band continued working with producer Bob Crewe as background vocalists and sometimes leads under different names, for productions on Crewe's own Topix label. Omissions? Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. In 1958, Charles Calello replaced Nick Massi on bass in the lineup. See also: Jersey Boys and Jersey Boys (film)Jersey Boys, a musical play based on the lives of the Four Seasons and directed by Des McAnuff (The Who's Tommy, 700 Sundays), premiered at his La Jolla Playhouse and opened on November 6, 2005, to generally positive reviews and subsequently won multiple Tony Awards after its move to Broadway. The Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a set of four violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi. The latter became a UK single but failed to chart, while the former was released as a single in America, inching its way into the Hot 100. For a lot of the music-loving public, the first time they heard of TISM was in June of 1995, when a controversial CD single appeared on shelves. In 2003, Valli revamped the group and started touring with a new band of Four Seasons consisting of Landon Beard, Todd Fournier, and brothers Brian Brigham and Brandon Brigham. The Four Seasons were one of the most popular vocal groups of the 1960s, scoring countless hits across the world. The 4 Seasons They might not have provoked a riot but, when Vivaldi’s Four Seasons were first heard in the early 1720s, their audience hadn’t heard anything quite like them before. [1][2] Gaudio no longer plays live, leaving Valli as the only member of the band from its inception who is touring as of 2019[update]. The cover featured a grey headstone with the birth and death dates of actor River Phoenix, who had died just two years earlier. Both singles were hits in the United Kingdom, with "Silver Star" making the Top 10. Although the band remained unsigned in the later part of 1974, Valli had a new label—and a new solo career. Since 1970, they have also been known at times as Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. )[15], The change of label did not diminish the popularity of the Four Seasons in 1964, nor did the onslaught of the British Invasion and Beatlemania. The group originated in New Jersey as the Starlets which consisted of sisters, Barbara "Bibs" and Phyllis "Jiggs" Allbut, Bernadette Carroll, and Lynda Malzone. Only singles that reached a position of #30 or higher on the Hot 100 are listed. You never stop learning", "Sugarloaf Sings About a 'Green-Eyed Lady, "Craig Pilo Exclusive Interview :: Drummer for Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons | Feeling the Vibe Magazine", "Clint Eastwood Is Bringing Jersey Boys to the Big Screen", Rock and Roll Hall of Fame page on the Four Seasons. Valli, who possessed a three-octave range, began a parallel solo career with the hit “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” (1967). The Very Best of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, "Frankie Valli, the original Jersey Boy, can't wait to get to Cleveland for two shows Dec. 10-11 at Palace Theatre", "2021 Brings Long-Awaited 44-Disc Career Set For Four Seasons Fans", "The Four Seasons: Ten Years And Still Hanging On", "Gary James' Interview With The Four Seasons' Gerry Polci", "There had to be a Jewish "Jersey Boy" – and there is. The same year, the quartet released their first record, Otis Blackwell's "You're the Apple of My Eye", which appeared on the Billboard Frankie Valli, Nick Massi, Bob Gaudio, Tom DeVito One of the most long-lived and successful white vocal groups of the '60s, The Four Seasons scored a series of smash hit singles between 1962 and 1967 featuring the shrill piercing falsetto (three octave) voice of Frankie Valli. The peak position on the Billboard Top 200 albums chart follows the album title. While new hits for the Four Seasons had dried up in the first half of the 1970s, the band never lost its popularity as a performing act. The success of Who Loves You increased the popularity of the Four Seasons as a touring group and reignited recording unit, but when 1977's Helicon album was released by Warner Bros., the climate was changing again, both for the band and for Valli. From 1956 until "My Eyes Adored You" in 1975, records which the Four Seasons recorded had the following artist credit (a sampling): Frankie Valli The Broadway production won four 2006 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Actor (for John Lloyd Young as Frankie Valli), Best Featured Actor (for Christian Hoff as Tommy DeVito), and Best Lighting Design. Tommy DeVito, one of the smooth harmonizing founding members of legendary doo-wop group The Four Seasons, has died from complications of … May 3, 1937, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.), Tommy DeVito (b. In 1960, the band known as the Four Lovers evolved into the Four Seasons, with Frankie Valli as the lead singer, Bob Gaudio (formerly of the Royal Teens) on keyboards and tenor vocals, Tommy DeVito on lead guitar and baritone vocals, and Nick Massi on electric bass and bass vocals. [3], Frankie Valli's first commercial release was "My Mother's Eyes" (as Frankie Valley) in 1953. At the same time, Valli's string of solo hits had come to an end as he parted ways with Private Stock Records. The band was one of the biggest music acts of the 1960s. Gerry Polci did about half of the lead vocals, sharing them with Valli and one led by Ciccone ('Slip Away'). (When Vee-Jay was finally declared bankrupt in 1966, the Four Seasons' Vee-Jay catalog reverted to the band to settle unpaid royalties, and the tracks were then reissued by Philips. Hal Miller and the Rays It quickly became a gold record, selling over one million copies before the RIAA started awarding platinum records for million-selling albums. Frankie Valli In 1962, they were invited to perform their hit "Big Girls Don't Cry" on the show American Bandstand. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. ), "Working My Way Back to You", "Opus 17 (Don't You Worry 'bout Me)", "I've Got You Under My Skin", "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" (released under Valli's name as a "solo" single), "Beggin'", "Tell It to the Rain", "C'mon Marianne", and "I Make a Fool of Myself" (Frankie Valli "solo"). 'The Four Seasons' Vocal Group Hall of Fame Page. ", "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" (as the Wonder Who? By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica. And he's local! A 1971 Frankie Valli solo single on Motown, "Love Isn't Here", and three Four Seasons singles, "Walk On, Don't Look Back" on MoWest in 1972, "How Come" and "Hickory" on Motown in 1973, sank without a trace. A big factor is their most distinguishing trademark, the high falsetto vocals of their lead singer Frankie Valli. [13], While the label went through internal turmoil with the Beatles and Capitol Records, a separate royalty dispute between Vee-Jay and the Four Seasons headed to court. It was called the Four Seasons." Early the following year, Nick Massi returned to replace Calello, who remained the band's musical arranger. "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)" had Polci singing lead on the verses, Ciccone featured on specific sections, and Valli on lead vocals only on the two bridge sections and backup vocals on the chorus. In 1975, record sales exploded for both Valli and the Four Seasons as both acts had million-selling singles in the United States ("My Eyes Adored You" hit #1 on the Hot 100 for Valli in March, "Who Loves You" peaked at #3 in November for the band and number 6 in the UK chart). Posted by Bobby Valli on Tuesday, September 22, 2020. While singers, producers, and musicians have come and gone, Gaudio and Valli remain the band's constant (with each owning fifty percent of the act and its assets, including virtually all of its recording catalog). In 1960, the group known as The Four Lovers evolved into The Four Seasons, with Frankie Valli as the lead singer, Bob Gaudio (formerly of The Royal Teens) on keyboards and tenor vocals, Tommy DeVito on… Johnny Halo featuring the Four Seasons The single also hit number one in the United Kingdom. This is not a complete list of album releases. During Best remembered for lead singer Frankie Valli’s soaring falsetto, the Four Seasons had a string of more than 25 hits over a five-year period that began with “Sherry” in 1962. Later, on a handshake agreement between keyboardist/composer Bob Gaudio and lead singer Frankie Valli, the Four Seasons Partnership was formed. Gaudio no longer plays live, leaving Valli as the only member of the band from its inception who is touring as of 2019. The new lineup boasted two new lead singers in Don Ciccone (formerly of the Critters) and Gerry Polci, who eased the singing load on an ailing Frankie Valli (who was gradually losing his hearing due to otosclerosis, though eventually, surgery restored most of it). In April 1970, the single "Patch of Blue" was billed to Frankie Valli & the 4 Seasons, the first time that credit had appeared; the group's personnel, however, remained the same. The album title Jersey Beat is a play on Jersey Boys, a successful Broadway musical about the Four Seasons, as well as on Mersey Beat, a term first coined as the title of a music magazine published in Liverpool, England, from 1961, but subsequently also used to describe Liverpool's "beat music" culture of the early 1960s. )—either in their entirety, single movements, or medleys. Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. Composed in 1723, The Four Seasons is Vivaldi's best-known work, and is among the most popular pieces of Baroque music. The label had released several early Beatles singles in America. During his tenure with the group Valli released several albums as a … ", "An Interview with the brilliant guitarist John Paiva: I have learned from everyone including my students. Bob Crewe used a core group of Studio musicians that provided the music for the Majority of their hit records. On behalf of the Four Seasons Partnership, Valli tried to purchase the entire collection of master recordings the group had made for Motown. In January 1981, Warners released Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons Reunited Live. Even after the rise and fall of the band's sales in the disco era, the Four Seasons, in one version or another (the group became a sextet as Jerry Corbetta, formerly of Sugarloaf, joined the lineup), continued to be a popular touring act, with Valli being the only constant in the midst of a fluctuating lineup. Frankie Valle and the Romans When Lynda Malzone left, Linda Jansen became the new lead singer. Reverting to the "Four Seasons" billing without Valli's name upfront, the group issued a single on Crewe's eponymous label, a rendition of "And That Reminds Me", which peaked at number 45 on the Billboard chart. On tough times after leaving The Four Seasons “You’re brought down to your knees. John Stefan, the band's lead trumpeter, arranged the horn parts. When the Beatles became wildly popular, Vee-Jay was swamped with orders, and they shipped more than two million Beatles records in a single month. The Four Seasonshad the theorists frot… According to Gaudio, "We figured we'll come out of this with something. It was a Top 10 British hit in October 1975, relaunching their career there. Members in the 1960s include Tommy Devito (born June 19, 1935), vocals, guitar; Bob Gaudio (born November 17, 1942 in Bronx, NY), vocals, keyboard, and principal songwriter; Nick Massi (born September 19, 1935), vocals, bass; Frankie Valli ,(born May 3, 1937 in Newark, NJ), lead vocals. Since 1970, they have been known off and on as Frankie Valli & The 4 Seasons, Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, or simply The Four Seasons. As a follow-up, Bob Gaudio wrote a song that, after some discussion between Crewe and Gaudio, was titled "Sherry". The new record yielded only one USA single, "Down the Hall", which limped onto the Hot 100. In the UK they had chart hits with both "Down the Hall" and "Rhapsody" (with verses sung by Don Ciccone and Valli appearing to notable effect only as lead voice over group harmonies on the chorus). Backstage at the NJPAC for the St Barnabas Medical Center 140 Years of Excellence Balck Tie October 29th 2005 L-R Tommy Divito (original member of The 4 Seasons), actor Joe Pesci (Home Alone, Goodfellas, Casino), singer Frankie Valli and Charlie Calello longtime arranger/producer for Frankie Valli and The 4 Seasons for all of their hits. Earlier members included Nick Devito and Hank Majewski . Today, this album package is a collector's item.[16]. The Four Seasons Partnership and Snapper Records will be releasing a limited-edition 44-disc career box set in the summer of 2021. In 1959, the band started working with producer/songwriter Bob Crewe, primarily for session work (Crewe wrote "I Go Ape", which Valli recorded with the intention of releasing it as a "solo" single). They had some minor local hits and wound up doing back-up work in the studio. MUSIC LEGEND! September 21, 2020, Henderson, Nevada), Bob Gaudio (b. November 17, 1942, New York, New York), and Nick Massi (original name Nicholas Macioci; b. September 19, 1935, Newark—d. Songwriter, singer, keyboard player, arranger, and producer Bob Gaudio is most closely associated with the Four Seasons, the group for which he was a performing member between 1962 and 1972, after which he largely retired from stage work while continuing to write and arrange their songs and to produce and perform on their records. The Valli Boys [18][19], In 2020, the group launched a YouTube channel, featuring the group virtually re-recording some of their songs.[20]. [4] The band's original line-up was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990,[5] and joined the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1999. The Four Seasons are an American rock and pop band originally from New Jersey currently consisting of original member Frankie Valli and a selection of session musicians. In September 1992, a band album was released entitled Hope + Glory on the MCA/Curb label. Since 1970, they have also been known at times as Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Indeed, the band composed their own material, but for the majority of the time, the Four Seasons DID NOT play on their own records. It subsequently won multiple Tony Awards after its move to Broadway. A song from Chameleon, "The Night", later became a Northern Soul hit and reached the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart, but was not commercially released in the United States as a single, although promotional copies were distributed in 1972, showing the artist as Frankie Valli. …of the American rock-and-roll group the Four Seasons.…, Doo-wop, style of rhythm-and-blues and rock-and-roll vocal music popular in the 1950s and ’60s. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. However, the record did not sell well. The Seasons' last single on Philips, 1970's "Patch of Blue", featured the band's name as "Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons", but the change in billing did not revive the band's fortunes. Valli followed this with a discofied #11 hit version of Ruby & the Romantics' "Our Day Will Come", also featuring Austin. The original cast included John Lloyd Young as Frankie Valli, Daniel Reichard as Bob Gaudio, Christian Hoff as Tommy DeVito, and J. Robert Spencer as Nick Massi. The Four Seasons were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. Each season is written in three movements, just like the sonnets. Produced by Bob Gaudio, it was a double album of concert recordings which included the two studio recordings "Spend the Night in Love" and "Heaven Must Have Sent You (Here in the Night)" sung by Valli. The Four Seasons (clockwise from top): Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito, Frankie Valli, and Nick Massi, 1966. [17] Valli's first post-1960 single without the Seasons was 1975's "Swearin' to God". The Four Seasons are an American rock and pop band that became internationally successful in the 1960s and 1970s. He took the tape to Larry Uttal, the owner and founder of Private Stock Records, who wanted to release it as a Frankie Valli solo single. In January 1964, after several successful albums but a lack of money from Vee-Jay, the Seasons left Vee-Jay and moved to Philips Records, then a division of Mercury Records. Click to see full answer. Among the top-10 hits from the group’s golden period were “Sherry” (1962), “Big Girls Don’t Cry” (1962), “Walk Like a Man” (1963), “Dawn (Go Away)” (1964), and “Let’s Hang On!” (1965). The story of the Four Seasons was dramatized in the long-running Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Jersey Boys (2006; film 2014). In the United Kingdom, Tamla Motown released "The Night" as a single on the 'Mowest' label and saw it reach the #7 position on the UK Singles Chart. [6] They are one of the best-selling musical groups of all time, having sold an estimated 100-175 million records worldwide. Excluding Valli's 1978 "Grease" single, which hit #1 while the motion picture of the same name became the highest-grossing musical in cinematic history, the last Top 40 hit for the band was behind them. (ORIGINAL JERSEY BOY) TOMMY DEVITO (R.I.P.). The Wonder Who? December 24, 2000, West Orange, New Jersey). Plus, Valli took one solo lead vocal role on the album's concluding song, the brief Gaudio-Parker-penned "I Believe in You". After over a year of legal negotiations, Capitol Records was finally able to stop Vee-Jay, effective October 15, 1964. Later members include Don Ciccone , bass; John Pavia , guitar; Gerry Polci , vocals, drums; Lee Shapiro, keyboard. His popularity and that of the group declined in the late 1960s but rebounded in the mid-1970s when Valli had number one singles with “My Eyes Adored You” (1975) and “Grease” (1978), while the Four Seasons had hits with “Who Loves You” and “December 1963 (Oh What a Night)” (both 1975) before being relegated to the oldies circuit. The structure of doo-wop music generally featured a tenor lead vocalist singing the melody of the song with a trio or quartet singing background harmony. The Four Seasons are an … From 1956 until 1958, the group stayed together, performing in clubs and lounges as the Four Lovers and recording on music labels under various names: Frankie Tyler, Frankie Valli, Frankie Valli and the Travelers, Frankie Valli and the Romans, the Village Voices, and the Topics are some of the 18 "stage names" used individually or collectively by the members of the band. Also, they released a Christmas album in December 1962 and charted with a unique rendition of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town". However, "Dawn (Go Away)" (recorded for Atlantic Records, but never released by them), was kept from the #1 spot on the Hot 100 by no fewer than three Beatles singles in the March 21, 1964, edition (two weeks later, the top five slots were filled by Beatles singles). Although the band also scored minor chart placements with "Silver Star" (with Valli on harmony vocals) (#38 in 1976) and "Down the Hall" (#65 in 1977), both sung by Polci, and "Spend the Night in Love" (#91 in 1980), which again featured Polci as main lead vocalist and Valli singing the bridge section and contributing to backup group vocals, "December, 1963" marked the end of the Seasons' hit-making run. And it wasn’t just the concert-going folk of northern Italy who experienced Vivaldi’s stylistic shot-in-the-arm. The term doo-wop is derived from the sounds made…. Billy Dixon and the Topics May 3, 1937, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.), Tommy DeVito (b. June 19, 1928, Belleville, New Jersey—d. The Adidas commercial is a popular hit on YouTube and features a house party with famous celebrities such as David Beckham, Russel Simmons, Kevin Garnett, Missy Elliott, Katy Perry, and Mark Gonzales. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). Elizabeth native Long, 83, was the first member of the Four Seasons to join after the original quartet -- Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi-- formed in Newark in 1960. The Music Of Frankie Valli & the 4 Seasons was released in mid-2007, marketed as the most comprehensive collection of Four Seasons music yet. They were the first white artists to sign with Vee-Jay.[12]. So we took the name of the bowling alley. A few months later, Joe Long was permanently hired and became a mainstay of the band on bass and backing vocals until 1975, with Calello returning to arranging. After the song was recorded, Crewe and the members of the band solicited record labels to release it. Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, Beethoven’s Fifth… and yes, Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. From 1962 to early 1964, the Beach Boys were the only band to match the Four Seasons in record sales in the United States, and their first three Vee-Jay non-holiday single releases (i.e., ignoring their version of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town") marked the first time that a rock band hit #1 on the Billboard singles charts with three consecutive entries. The following year, he and guitarist Tommy DeVito formed the Variatones (with Hank Majewski, rhythm guitar, Frank Cottone, accordion, and Billy Thompson, drums),[7] which between 1954 and 1956 performed and recorded under a variety of names before settling on the name the Four Lovers. 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