Four Seasons 'Rock Family Tree'

At the recent Four Seasons Convention in Las Vegas former ‘Four Season’ Bill De Loach commented that he had been told that “it was intended to list the names of all the members of the Four Seasons, past and present, somewhere on the jacket of the CD ‘Romancing The 60’s’. Although that never happened we do know that most members, past and present, were listed on the ‘Jersey Beat’ Box Set”

The list of 38 Seasons plus backing singers does make a fair attempt at the list.

If you have visited our ‘4 Seasons Roll of Honour’ web page you’ll know our featured line-ups but if you want to know the chronological history where do you go?

Searching back through our archive of Newsletters we found that someone in Japan had constructed a ‘Rock Family Tree’ of the ‘Four Seasons’ during the 1990s. It runs from 1946 and moves on to the first incarnation and the start of the Variatones to 1994, and recognizes the support of lesser known people like Richard Natoli. It is a more detailed and focused view of the line-ups over the years.

We’ve been unable to find the original to use for a HQ scan but have decided to add the newsletter published copy to our ‘Four Seasons Roll Of Honour’ page on our web site.

It really needs someone with the appropriate software and time to construct a comprehensive one and maybe by us publishing this version it will prompt either the Partnership or a fan to re-compile this.

Of course you’ll spot errors in this Japanese Family Tree….like the fact that Charles Calello’s spell of 100 plus performances in 1965 is not included and as we know Gerry Polci was never a member of the Happenings (although he did spot John Paiva with them). But we’ve got to be grateful for what we have and we’ve included a list of corrections on the web page below the chart for the sake of accuracy.

So send us corrections that you spot ....

( [email protected]) and we’ll keep the web page as the best record we have of the Four Seasons Rock Family Tree.

Click on the image for the 'Rock Family Tree' or on the image above for the full ‘Four Seasons Roll Of Honour” web page.