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Francesco Stephen Castelluccio (born May 3, 1934), better known by his stage name Frankie Valli, is an American singer, known as the
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of the Four Seasons beginning in 1960. He is known for his unusually powerful lead
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voice. Valli scored 29
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hits with the Four Seasons, one top 40 hit under the Four Seasons alias
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, and nine top 40 hits as a solo artist. As a member of the Four Seasons, Valli's number-one hits include "
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" (1962), "
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" (1962), " Walk Like a Man" (1963), " Rag Doll" (1964) and "
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" (1975). Valli's recording of the song "
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" reached number two in 1967. As a solo artist, Valli scored number-one hits with the songs "
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" (1974) and " Grease" (1978). Valli,
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,
Nick Massi Nick Massi (born Nicholas E. Macioci, September 19, 1927 – December 24, 2000) was an American bass singer, songwriter, and bass guitarist for The Four Seasons. Biography Born in Newark, New Jersey, Nicholas "Massi" Macioci was first taught to ...
and Bob Gaudio the original members of the Four Seasons were inducted into the
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in 1990 and the
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in 1999.Vocal Group Hall of Fame entry
for "The Four Seasons".


Early life

Valli was born Francesco Stephen Castelluccio, on May 3, 1934, to an Italian family in the First Ward of
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at the Paramount Theater in
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. One of his early favorite singers was "Texas" Jean Valli, from whom he adopted his stage name. Until he could support himself with music, he worked as a barber. Valli's birth year has been called into question. Valli never addressed the issue himself, until the 2007 posting at the Official Frankie Valli Site, sponsored by his current record label,
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. 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), as well as a 1965
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, available through
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, all identify his year of birth as 1934.


Music career


1950s–1960s

Valli began his singing career in the early 1950s with the Variety Trio (Nickie DeVito,
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, and Nick Macioci). Valli's 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 Variety Trio disbanded and Valli, along with Tommy DeVito, became part of the house band at The Strand in
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a week later. Renamed
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, the group recorded several singles and one album's worth of tracks. They had a minor hit with " You're the Apple of My Eye" in 1956. Nickie DeVito and Hank Majewski left in 1958 to be replaced by Nick Macioci (now Nick Massi) and Hugh Garrity. Massi was in and out of the group, and, occasionally
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joined on accordion. The group continued to perform until 1959, when Bob Gaudio became a member. After a few more changes, the group was renamed "The Four Seasons" in 1960 after a bowling alley in Union, New Jersey, in which they auditioned at its cocktail lounge. As the lead singer of the Four Seasons, Valli had a string of hits beginning with the number-one hit "
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" 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
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. During the 1960s, Gaudio and his then-songwriting partner, producer
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, worked with Valli to craft solo recordings with varying degrees of success. This concept of a major recording artist performing solo in opposition to his or her own group performances was rare in the rock/pop world (
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and
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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 group and solo recordings was great, and Valli, Gaudio and Crewe occasionally rose to the occasion with both great performances and commercial hits. Valli was the original artist to record the Gaudio-Crewe composition "
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", a performance that was copied nearly note for note when recorded by
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, 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 "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" is a 1967 song written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio. It was recorded as a single by Frankie Valli. The song was among his biggest hits, earning a gold record and reaching No. 2 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 for a we ...
", which reached number two in the charts and was widely recorded by many other artists. Valli's debut solo album was a gathering together of various single releases and a few new recordings. Before the release of Valli's second solo album, 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 second solo album release was more coherent and Valli took more time in recording it. ''Timeless'' contains one Top 40 hit, "To Give (The Reason I Live)". Valli ended the 1960s with a string of recordings that were included in the Valli/Four Seasons album ''Half & Half'' or released as various singles. The only hit to emerge at this time was the recording of "The Girl I'll Never Know (Angels Never Fly This Low)", reaching number 52.


1970s–1990s

"You're Ready Now", a Valli solo recording from 1966, became part of the Northern soul scene and reached number eleven on the
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in December 1970. "The Night" originally released in 1970 also became a huge Northern soul hit and as a result it reached number seven on the
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in 1975. In 1975, his single "
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" hit number one on the ''
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'' Hot 100 and reached number 5 in the UK chart. In the same year, he also had a number six ''Billboard'' hit with the disco-laden " Swearin' to God" reaching number 31 in the UK chart, while further UK chart success came with "
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and
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. Valli was in the UK charts, reaching number 11, with this at the same time as the Four Seasons enjoyed a UK hit with "
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" on which Valli did not appear as lead. In 1976, Valli covered
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song " A Day in the Life" for the ephemeral musical documentary ''
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''. In 1978, he sang the
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for the film version of the stage play ''Grease'', a song written by
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of the
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, which became a number one hit. He had two further chart successes the following year, "Save Me, Save Me" in November 1978, which entered the ''Billboard'' Easy Listening chart; and "Fancy Dancer" in January 1979, which entered the pop charts. Valli began suffering from
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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.


Since 2000

In 2005, the musical ''
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'' opened on Broadway. Besides performances of many of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons hit 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
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in the original production. The musical dramatizes several real-life incidents from Valli's life, including his estrangement from daughter Francine, who died in 1980. The show has been widely acclaimed, financially successful, and was nominated for eight
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, winning four, notably Best Musical, Actor, and Supporting Actor. The musical has touring companies around the world, as well as a version at
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. This musical was adapted into a 2014 film of the same name directed by
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, with Young again appearing as Valli. In October 2007, Valli released ''Romancing the '60s'', an album containing covers of his favorite songs from the 1960s, two of which—"Sunny" and "Any Day Now"—he had previously recorded. This was Valli's first solo album in nearly twenty-seven years since 1980's ''Heaven Above Me''. In October 2012, Valli made his Broadway debut with a week-long concert engagement at the
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in
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starting October 19. From March 2016 to January 2017, "Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons" were touring the US, scheduled to play small-to-mid-size venues such as the Silver Legacy Casino in Reno, Nevada, the Celebrity Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona and the County Fair in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. In October 2016, Valli released his first solo album in nine years, Tis the Seasons'', which features Valli covering some of his favorite
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songs. As part of the ''
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in the Park'' Valli, together with the Four Seasons performed with the BBC Concert Orchestra in
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on September 10, 2016. Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons continued touring in 2018 and 2019, with a new lineup after his lineup since 2003 spun off as its own act, The Modern Gentlemen. However, due to the
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, all touring plans were cancelled. Touring resumed in the summer of 2021 with dates scheduled through March 2023. In June 2021, Valli released his twelfth studio album, his first in five years, ''Touch of Jazz'', which features a collection of
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cover songs.


Acting career

Valli has appeared as an actor in ''
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'', the 1998 TV movie ''
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'' (as
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of the
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), ''
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'' (as mobster
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, once referred to as "The Mayor of Munchkin Land"), and the 2014 film ''
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''. On the November 21, 2014, episode of ''
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'' entitled "Ka Hana malu (Inside Job)", Valli played mysterious lawyer Leonard Cassano who was engaged to
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's character, Aunt Deb. In 2015, Valli did interviews as himself on the
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television series '' The Making of the Mob: New York''.


Personal life

Valli has been married three times. He married his first wife, Mary, who already had a two-year-old daughter, when he was in his early twenties. They raised two daughters together and divorced 13 years later in 1971. He married MaryAnn Hannagan in 1974, and that marriage 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 fire escape; six months later Francine, his youngest daughter from his marriage to Mary, reportedly died from a drug overdose. One issue in Valli's third divorce went up on appeal to the
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: whether a life-insurance policy purchased in 2003 was community property. On May 15, 2014, the state supreme court unanimously affirmed the trial court's ruling that the policy was community property (and not Randy's separate property), in an opinion signed by Associate Justice
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.
In re Marriage of Valli
', 58 Cal.4th 1396, 171 Cal.Rptr.3d 454, 324 P.3d 274 (2014).


Discography

Singles


Studio albums


References


External links

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