Forever Legends - Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons

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As others have said, I purchased this set after seeing the musical on stage. I was very disappointed with the quality of the audio. The volume is not balanced between the left and right channels. On some tracks the vocals are 95% on the right channel and 5% on the left channel. The same story with the instrumental, 95% on the left channel and 5% on the right channel. I am trying to return this for a refund and will be looking for another recording.

Frankie Valli had been recording since 1953, but it wasn't until the late 1950s that he teamed up with Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito, and Nick Massi to form a band named The Four Lovers. Around 1960 the band changed names to The Four Seasons, and after a few false starts hit number one on the Billboard Charts with "Sherry." Their sound, once established, would remain constant throughout most of the 1960s: a mixture of do-wop featuring Valli's astonishing falsetto, wall of sound, sharp drum and bass lines, and an oddly stripped down quality that allowed you to hear every single note. Although the line-up would change over the years (Massi left in 1965 and was replaced with Charles Calello and later Joe Long Valli and Gaudio remained constant, with Valli becoming such a stand-out that the band was popularly known as Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons.

Like most bands of the era, The Four Seasons recorded a lot of covers--everything from Sixteen Candles to The Book of Love--but...Read more

The remastered version has taken a lot of character out of the original sound of the songs.