“It was 1966. The radio as always, was on and a new rock
hit version of “I´ve Got You Under My Skin” was playing. This was the first
time I took notice of “The Four Seasons”. I lived in Bristol, Rhode Island ,
a million miles away from anything like what I was hearing that day, yet I
thought to myself: “One day I would love to be a member of that
group!”.......................”
The opening words of John
Paiva’s biography and our major story of the Four Seasons..The Rise and Fall of
the NEW Four Seasons….
It took many months to
assemble the story for Chapter 5 alone and in it you can read how…….
- The group was in disarray after the failure of
‘Chameleon’
- Singles were recorded and released as the Four
Seasons with no group members except Frankie Valli on them
- Motown didn’t pay them any royalties
- Frankie sacked the group and started building
from scratch
- The NEW Four Seasons were recruited
- Motown refused to release ‘My Eyes Adored you.
- Frankie bought the song and took it to Larry
Uttal
- Joe Long left the group after recording on ‘Who
Loves You’
And you will also find how
the group rose to be the most successful Four Seasons ever.
All compiled from articles
and bios and clips from George Ingram and Frank Rovello’s article archives and our newsletters from the 1970s
Here is our ‘Introduction’….and we start with our Chapter 5 ( a bit like ‘Star
Wars’ we start in the middle of the story) It can be downloaded in 3 parts.
Next month we will start Chapter 6 gathering the story of 1976 and the glorious World Tour, and their biggest ever record. Maybe by the New Year we will be able to publish it. Casey Chameleon
Postscipt Aug 4th:
We've had a good response and already a correction ..." Joe (Long)left shortly after Valli and the Seasons co-hosted the Mike Douglas TV show for the full week of September 1, 1975."
So version 2 with any corrections or adds we get will be available for the issue of newsletter 53 later in the year....Casey
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