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The Four Seasons UK Appreciation Society - Newsletter 52

 

Picking up the best of our articles from the last six months and featuring articles and releases from the early 70s our newsletter 52 is assembled and available for download. Chameleon

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Some more excerpts from our latest Newsletter to download.

 

We’ve gathered the opinions of fans re the Four Season Motown Anthology which was released this summer and you can read the assessments via this link.

 

A review of Kingsley Abbott’s new book is here.

 

Plus the first of our celebration of great harmony performances in ‘Harmony Heroes’ Volume 1. is at this link.

 

Also news just in of another volume of  ‘Lost and Found’ CD’s. This time  ‘Vol 2 – Rarities and Connections’ which features rare recordings from the 1970s by the group as well as some rare Bob Crewe productions. Details are here…..and…. here.

 

Fascinating music; which is now in the Society library.

 

Casey Chameleon

'Trippin' in The USA

Lynn Boleyn and Ray Nichol leave Birmingham and Newcastle and go ‘trippin’ to the USA next week for the first ever Four Seasons International Convention. This is a great way to close arguably the best ever year for Four Seasons fans…well at least since 1964.

The music of the group is now more popular than ever thanks to the success of ‘Jersey Boys’. The ‘Jersey Beat’ Box Set and the Official Companion Book to the Broadway Musical gave great recognition to the music and the fans, putting in context what we feel about the range of music by the group and all the former members. And now we have the respective casts of the shows everywhere to appreciate as ‘Four Seasons’.

 

Lynn and Ray have both contributed to our autumn Newsletter and you can download their pages here and here.

 

Casey Chameleon

A Clubber's Guide To The Four Seasons

  Another year…another Summer Break ……and another Four Seasons song on the charts. Yes we are back and will pepper the blog with news and articles over the next few months as we celebrate the best year for UK fans in decades. And we guarantee some musical surprises about the group that has it’s history ‘mistold’ in Jersey Boys. More on that in the future.

This time last year it was Pilooski’s remix of ‘Beggin’ by Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons that was belting up the charts………and again this year Madcon have recorded a version which stormed to No 5 in the UK Single charts in August. Wikipedia tells us….”Their newest album, entitled So Dark The Con Of Man, was released on December 3. In the UK , released on RCA, the album charted on the UK Albums Chart at #137.  The first single from this album, Beggin, has sold 8 times (Norwegian) platinum, and reached number one on sales charts already in the 1st (Norwegian iTunes top songs) and second week (VG-lista Topp 20). Beggin is a cover of a song originally performed in 1967 by The Four Seasons featuring lead vocals by Frankie Valli. Madcon's version of Beggin is produced by 3Elementz, who also produced the other singles from "So Dark The Con Of Man".”

And of course the top French cover of ‘December 63 (Oh, What A Night)/ Ces Soirees La’ by Yannick is featured in the opening to the world wide hit musical, Jersey Boys. So it is of little surprise then that our friend, Piet (PEEJAY) in Holland has assembled over 20 years of Dance Mixes and Covers in 7 Volumes of what must be ‘The Clubbers Guide To The Four Seasons”….. Back in the 90s Russ McClelland pulled together a 3 CD set of the groups best Dance Mixes…..but another decade finds their catalogue still being sampled.

But for now at least….. this will do us……..until next years remix that is!!

PEEJAY Volume 1 is reviewed in our forthcoming Newsletter no 52 and can be seen here. This is the first of our articles and blog posts related to Newsletter 52 which will be published soon. We’ll keep you informed via the blog …as we lead up to the First Four Seasons International Convention in October. Find out more here. Casey Chameleon

 

Past Newsletters

We've had requests for past newsletters from visitors to our downloadable Newsletter at our web site so we are going to link into this weblog and upload them, when we can. In the meantime get the last newsletter from here

Casey