Pop music was shifting from teen rock’n’roll to soul and beat in 1962, and The Four Seasons were ideally placed to deliver the new sound, having grown up on the street-corner symphonies of doo-wop just as their soulful black contemporaries had. Listen to the best of Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons here, and check out our best Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons songs, below. Here are just ten of their greatest moments on record. As fashions changed in the 80s, the group slipped from stardom, but in 2005 the wildly successful jukebox musical Jersey Boys brought the best Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons songs back to the stage, where they belonged. Meanwhile, The Four Seasons soared again with a soulful disco sound. The Four Seasons’ hit run began with Sherry in 1962, and once the group’s chart attack had apparently finished at the end of the 60s, Frankie did it all over again as a solo artist, culminating in a No.1 smash with the theme song from Grease. It’s not like we hadn’t had the opportunity to appreciate just how remarkable their records were: Frankie had scored in the US Hot 100 more than 50 times. Hit after hit after hit – yet for years, the brilliance of Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons was taken for granted.
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