Frankie Valli
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons DISC 1: FRANKIE VALLI AND THE FOUR SEASONS
1. A New Beginning (Prelude)
2. Sun Country
3. You’re A Song (That I Can’t Sing)
4. The Night
5. A New Beginning
6. When the Morning Orders
7. Poor Fool … Frankie Valli
8. Touch The Rainchild
9. Love Isn’t Here (Like It Used To Be) … Frankie Valli
10. Walk On, Don't Look Back
11. How Come?
12. Life And Breath
13. Hickory
14. Charisma unedited version
15. Charisma single version
16. Thank You
Disc 2: FRANKIE VALLI
1. Just Look What You’ve Done
2. Love Isn’t Here (Like It Used To Be)
3. Baby I Need Your Loving
4. Inside You
5. Thank You
6. Hickory
7. Life And Breath
8. The Night – with the Four Seasons
9. With My Eyes Wide Open
10. 10. You've Got Your Troubles
11. Listen To Yesterday
12. The Scalawag Song (And I Will Love You) Price: $29.98
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RELEASE DATE: June 3, 2008
Limited Edition CD
FRANKIE VALLI & THE FOUR SEASONS: The Motown Years
It was a dream come true: Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, who had shared and sometimes battled on the charts with Motown in their respective ‘60s heydays, signed with the company in 1972. There were two albums, several singles, no hits—at least not right away—and then a mutual parting. But the prized, sophisticated recordings, long sought after by fans, and even more desired since the global success of the musical Jersey Boys, were stuck back in the vault.
Now, for the first time ever, Hip-oSelect.com collects the great Motown albums and singles of the Four Seasons and solo Frankie Valli released from 1972 through 1975. The Motown Years, a 2-CD set compiled with the cooperation of the group, features the album Chameleon and the LP issued as a Valli solo set, Inside You, along with every U.S. and U.K. single not included on either LP. Here’s a glimpse inside the set’s booklet sleeve notes by noted chronicler Brian Chin:
“Chameleon, produced by [the Four Season’s Bob] Gaudio, and written by him with collaborations from his then-wife Brit, Bob Crewe, and the group’s newly-arrived keyboard and organ player, Al Ruzicka, plainly responds to the signals of game-changing albums like Carole King’s Tapestry and the first post-Beatles solo albums. Confessional, adult-oriented relationship stories dominate the album…”
Eventually Frankie and the group looked to go back to independent production. In 1975, just as they broke away, Motown U.K. released “The Night,” a popular underground club track, as a single—and it leapt into the British national Top 10. But by then the Four Seasons had bought back a track they had worked up for Motown: “My Eyes Adored You.” It became a No. 1 Frankie Valli solo hit on Private Stock, while “December 1963 (Oh What Night),” written while they were at Motown, became a group No. 1 at Warner Bros. Both songs retained their Jobete Publishing copyright.
The rest of the music they left behind at Motown has endured. Rejoice, Seasons fans. The Motown Years is finally here.
HIP-OCRATES SAYS: The FV&TFS-Motown connection doesn’t end there, of course. Check out Frankie Valli's most recent album, Romancing the ’60s, which contains three Motown covers—“My Cherie Amour,” “My Girl” and “What Becomes of the Broken Hearted”—and is on the Universal Motown label.
Price: $29.98
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