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American vocaliser (born 1934)

Frankie Valli
Valli performing in 2012
Groundwork information
Nascency name	Francesco Stephen Castelluccio
Too known as	Frankie Valley
Born	(1934-05-03) May 3, 1934 (age 89) Newark, New Jersey, U.South.
Genres	Rock pop disco white soul[1] [2]
Occupation(southward)	Singer role player
Instrument(due south)	Vocals
Years active	1953–present
Labels	Philips Motown Private Stock Warner Bros. MCA UMG
Fellow member of	The Iv Seasons
Formerly of	The Four Lovers
Spouse(s)	Mary Mandel ​ ​ (thousand. 1957; div. 1971)​ Randy Clohessy ​ ​ (m. 1984; div. 2004)​
Partner(s)	MaryAnn Hannigan (1974–1982)
Website	Official website

Musical artist

Francesco Stephen Castelluccio (built-in May three, 1934), better known by his phase name Frankie Valli, is an American singer, known equally the frontman of the Four Seasons beginning in 1960. He is known for his unusually powerful lead falsetto vocalism.^{[3] [4] [five]}

Valli scored 29 top 40 hits with the 4 Seasons, one top forty hitting under the Four Seasons alias the Wonder Who?, and nine top forty hits equally a solo artist. As a fellow member of the Iv Seasons, Valli's number-i hits include "Sherry" (1962), "Large Girls Don't Cry" (1962), "Walk Like a Man" (1963), "Rag Doll" (1964) and "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Dark)" (1975). Valli's recording of the song "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" reached number ii in 1967. Equally a solo creative person, Valli scored number-one hits with the songs "My Optics Adored You" (1974) and "Grease" (1978).

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 in 1990^{[half dozen]} and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1999.^[7]

Early life [edit]

Valli was born Francesco Stephen Castelluccio,^[8] on May 3, 1934,^[9] to an Italian family in the Start Ward of Newark, New Jersey; he was the eldest of three sons.^[10] His father, Anthony Castelluccio, was a barber and display designer for Lionel model trains; his mother, Mary Rinaldi, was a homemaker and beer visitor employee.^{[11] [12] [13] [14]} He was inspired to accept up a singing career at the historic period of vii after his mother took him to see the young Frank Sinatra at the Paramount Theater in Manhattan, New York City.^[15] One of his early favorite singers was "Texas" Jean Valli, from whom he adopted his phase name.^[16] Until he could back up himself with music, he worked as a barber.^[15]

Valli's birth year has been called into question. Valli never addressed the consequence himself, until the 2007 posting at the Official Frankie Valli Site, sponsored by his electric current record label, Universal Records.^[15] Much of the previous official publicity surrounding his career used 1937 as the birth year. Other sources, such as the Bear Family Records release, titled "The Four Lovers" (BCD 15424), also as a 1965 mug shot, bachelor through The Smoking Gun,^[17] all identify his year of birth as 1934.

Music career [edit]

1950s–1960s [edit]

Valli began his singing career in the early 1950s with the Variety Trio (Nickie DeVito, Tommy DeVito, and Nick Macioci). Valli'southward desire to sing in public was initially granted when – having heard Valli sing – the group offered him a guest spot when they performed. In late 1952, the Diversity Trio disbanded and Valli, along with Tommy DeVito, became part of the house band at The Strand in New Brunswick, New Bailiwick of jersey. For his part, Valli played bass and sang.

He cut his beginning single, "My Mother'southward Optics" (a cover of the 1929 George Jessel song from Lucky Boy), in 1953 as "Frankie Valley", a variation on a name he adopted from "Texas" Jean Valli, a female hillbilly vocalizer. Equally discussed in a 2014 article, "Frankie said in 2010 that Jean took him to meet music publishers Paul and Dave Kapp, telling them he was her brother. Equally a result, his beginning single was listed nether 'Frankie Valley', and the name stuck—though he eventually changed it to the same spelling ... [as Texas Jean was using]."^[18]

Around this time, Valli and Tommy DeVito left the house band at The Strand and formed The Variatones with Hank Majewski, Frank Cottone, and Billy Thompson. In 1956, as role of an audition backing a female person singer, the group impressed New York record human Peter Paul, who had them auditioning at RCA Victor a calendar week later.

Renamed the Four Lovers, the group recorded several singles and i album'southward worth of tracks. They had a minor hitting with "You're the Apple of My Eye" in 1956. Nickie DeVito and Hank Majewski left in 1958 to be replaced past Nick Macioci (now Nick Massi) and Hugh Garrity. Massi was in and out of the group, and, occasionally Charles Calello joined on accordion. The group continued to perform until 1959, when Bob Gaudio became a fellow member. After a few more changes, the group was renamed "The 4 Seasons" in 1960 after a bowling aisle in Union, New Jersey, in which they auditioned at its cocktail lounge.^{[19] [20] [21] [22] [23]}

As the lead vocalizer of the Four Seasons, Valli had a string of hits beginning with the number-i striking "Sherry" in 1962. During this period of his career with The Four Seasons, the group's bassist and vocal arranger Nick Massi was replaced in 1965 by Charlie Calello, the group's instrumental arranger, and, then shortly thereafter, Calello was replaced by Joseph LaBracio, who went by the pseudonym Joe Long.

Valli (forepart, heart) with the 4 Seasons in 1966.

During the 1960s, Gaudio and his so-songwriting partner, producer Bob Crewe, worked with Valli to craft solo recordings with varying degrees of success. This concept of a major recording creative person performing solo in opposition to his or her own group performances was rare in the stone/pop world (Buddy Holly and the Crickets were an exception) and may have given tacit approval to other groups and members of other groups to pursue such a path. The potential to dominate the charts with grouping and solo recordings was great, and Valli, Gaudio and Crewe occasionally rose to the occasion with both keen performances and commercial hits. Valli was the original creative person to record the Gaudio-Crewe composition "The Lord's day Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)", a performance that was copied nearly note for note when recorded by the Walker Brothers, an American group based in England. The Walker Brothers version was a huge success. Valli continued to record solo performances and finally reached major success with the release of "Can't Take My Eyes Off You", which reached number ii in the charts and was widely recorded by many other artists.

Valli's debut solo anthology was a gathering together of diverse single releases and a few new recordings. Earlier the release of Valli's 2nd solo anthology, a single was released in July 1967 with the A-side "I Make a Fool of Myself", a record that reached number 18. Timeless, Valli's 2d solo album release was more coherent and Valli took more than time in recording it. Timeless contains one Acme 40 hitting, "To Give (The Reason I Live)".

Valli ended the 1960s with a string of recordings that were included in the Valli/Four Seasons album One-half & Half or released as various singles. The only hit to emerge at this fourth dimension was the recording of "The Girl I'll Never Know (Angels Never Wing This Low)", reaching number 52.

1970s–1990s [edit]

"You're Set Now", a Valli solo recording from 1966, became office of the Northern soul scene and reached number eleven on the U.k. Singles Chart in December 1970. "The Night" originally released in 1970 as well became a huge Northern soul hit and as a event information technology reached number 7 on the UK Singles Nautical chart in 1975.^[24]

In 1975, his single "My Optics Adored You" striking number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached number 5 in the UK nautical chart. In the same year, he likewise had a number six Billboard hit with the disco-laden "Swearin' to God" reaching number 31 in the U.k. chart, while further Great britain chart success came with "Fallen Angel", written by Guy Fletcher and Doug Flett. Valli was in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland charts, reaching number 11, with this at the same time as the Iv Seasons enjoyed a UK hit with "Silver Star" on which Valli did not appear every bit lead.

In 1976, Valli covered the Beatles song "A Day in the Life" for the ephemeral musical documentary All This and Earth War 2.

In 1978, he sang the theme vocal for the film version of the stage play Grease, a song written past Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees, which became a number one hit. He had two further chart successes the following yr, "Save Me, Save Me" in November 1978, which entered the Billboard Piece of cake Listening chart; and "Fancy Dancer" in January 1979, which entered the popular charts.^[12]

Valli began suffering from otosclerosis in 1967, forcing him to "sing from memory" in the latter part of the 1970s. Surgery performed by Los Angeles ear specialist Victor Goodhill restored most of his hearing by 1980.^{[25] [26]}

Since 2000 [edit]

In 2005, the musical Jersey Boys opened on Broadway. Besides performances of many of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons striking recordings, it features a biographical narrative, told as four separate points of view by each of the members of the Four Seasons (Tommy DeVito, Frankie Valli, Nick Massi and Bob Gaudio), with Valli himself portrayed by John Lloyd Young in the original production. The musical dramatizes several real-life incidents from Valli's life, including his estrangement from girl Francine, who died in 1980. The show has been widely acclaimed, financially successful, and was nominated for eight Tony Awards, winning four, notably Best Musical, Actor, and Supporting Actor. The musical has touring companies around the world, besides as a version at Paris Las Vegas. This musical was adapted into a 2014 motion-picture show of the aforementioned name directed by Clint Eastwood, with Immature once more appearing as Valli.^{[ commendation needed ]}

In October 2007, Valli released Romancing the '60s, an album containing covers of his favorite songs from the 1960s, two of which—"Sunny" and "Whatsoever Twenty-four hours Now"—he had previously recorded.^[15] This was Valli'southward beginning solo album in nearly twenty-vii years since 1980's Heaven Above Me.

In October 2012, Valli made his Broadway debut with a week-long concert engagement at the Broadway Theatre in New York starting October nineteen.^{[eight] [27]}

From March 2016 to January 2017, "Frankie Valli and the Iv Seasons" were touring the US, scheduled to play modest-to-mid-size venues such as the Silverish Legacy Casino in Reno, Nevada, the Glory Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona and the County Fair in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.^[28] In October 2016, Valli released his first solo album in ix years, 'Tis the Seasons, which features Valli roofing some of his favorite Christmas songs.

Every bit part of the BBC Proms in the Park Valli, together with the Four Seasons performed with the BBC Concert Orchestra in Hyde Park on September 10, 2016.^[29]

Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons continued touring in 2018 and 2019, with a new lineup later on his lineup since 2003 spun off as its own human action, The Modern Gentlemen. Still, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all touring plans were cancelled. Touring resumed in the summertime of 2021 with dates scheduled through November 2023. In June 2021, Valli released his twelfth studio album, his first in five years, Touch of Jazz, which features a collection of Jazz cover songs.

Interim career [edit]

Valli has appeared as an actor in Miami Vice (as Mafia dominate Frank Doss), Full House, the 1998 TV movie Witness to the Mob (as Frank LoCascio of the Gambino crime family unit), The Sopranos (equally mobster Rusty Millio, one time referred to every bit "The Mayor of Munchkin Country"), and the 2014 moving picture And And then It Goes.^[30]

On the November 21, 2014, episode of Hawaii Five-0 entitled "Ka Hana malu (Within Task)", Valli played mysterious lawyer Leonard Cassano who was engaged to Ballad Burnett'south character, Aunt Deb.^[31]

In 2015, Valli did interviews every bit himself on the AMC television series The Making of the Mob: New York.^[32]

Personal life [edit]

Valli has been married three times. He married his kickoff wife, Mary, who already had a two-yr-old daughter, when he was in his early twenties. They raised two daughters together and divorced thirteen years subsequently in 1971. He married MaryAnn Hannagan in 1974, and that wedlock lasted eight years. He then married Randy Clohessy in 1984; they had three sons and separated in 2004. In 1980, his stepdaughter, Celia, was killed when she fell off a burn escape; six months later Francine, his youngest girl from his marriage to Mary, reportedly died from a drug overdose.^{[26] [thirteen] [33]}

Ane issue in Valli's third divorce went up on appeal to the Supreme Court of California: whether a life-insurance policy purchased in 2003 was customs property. On May 15, 2014, the state supreme court unanimously affirmed the trial court's ruling that the policy was community holding (and non Randy's split holding), in an opinion signed by Associate Justice Joyce Kennard.^{[34] [35]}

Discography [edit]

Studio albums [edit]

Engagement of release	Title	Billboard peak[36]	Label	Itemize number
June 1967	The 4 Seasons Present Frankie Valli Solo	34	Philips	200-247 (Mono) / 600-247 (Stereo)
July 1968	Timeless	176		600-274
February 1975	Closeup	51	Individual Stock	PS 2000
September 1975	Inside Yous (five new tracks plus four previously released tracks, remixed; "The Night" with the Four Seasons)	—	Motown	M6-852S1
Nov 1975	Our Twenty-four hours Will Come	107	Individual Stock	PS 2006
September 1976	Valli	—		PS 2017
November 1977	Lady Put the Light Out	—		PS 7002
August 1978	Frankie Valli... Is the Word	160	Warner Bros/Curb	BS 3233
November 1980	Sky In a higher place Me	—	MCA/Curb	5134
October 2007	Romancing the '60s	167	Carmine Entertainment/Universal Motown	B0009908-02
October 2016	'Tis the Seasons [37]	—	Rhino	R2556984
June 2021	A Touch of Jazz	–	Greenish Hill Music	B0942DW3VX

Singles [edit]

References [edit]

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External links [edit]

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Valli

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