Think of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons and people will tell you that he's the bloke who sang "December, 1963 (Oh What A Night)." And they're right. Along with his band The Four Seasons, of course. There is also "Who Loves You" and the lesser known "Silver Star" that all together make up the trio of seventies hits that catapulted the band into superstardom. Of course, there were the hits before these three - "Walk Like a Man", "Sherry" and "Big Girls Don't Cry" might sound familiar to many people, but they didn't leave their mark on the music world in quite the same way "December, 1963" did. Nightclubs and radio stations to this day still crank it up on a fairly regular basis. That, and the less impressive, if not sacrilegious remix. Incidentally, the three big seventies hits I mentioned earlier all come from the same album, Who Loves You, which of course shares its name with their second biggest hit. So, what do I think of the album? Surprisingly, not bad. Not bad, at all. "Silver Star" was something I didn't expect to hear from the band, with the emphatic use of the acoustic guitar, and "Emily's (Salle De Dance)" was a refreshing way to end the album as well. "Slip Away" was a bit on the boring side, to be quite honest - tedious, drawn out and liable to leave you inattentive, which was in stark contrast to the rest of the record, which is actually not bad at all. I was admittedly expecting more numbers like "Slip Away", but all up the album proved to be surprisingly good. B+
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