Though still a teenager, Valli was an experienced singer.

The addition of a fourth member made the trio a quartet and so the group ’s name was changed to the Variatones. The roots of the Four Seasons can be traced to the working class neighborhoods of Newark, New Jersey in the mid-1950s when Frankie Valli (born Francis Stephen Castelluccio) joined the Variety Trio, avocai group made up of Hank Majewski, and brothers Nick and Tommy Devito.

These properties have generated millions of dollars in revenue for Valli and Gaudio ’s joint enterprise, called the Four Seasons Partnership. Valli and Gaudio own the master tapes of all the group ’s recordings, the right to use the musical group name “The Four Seasons, ” and also own the rights to the music and lyrics of all the Four Seasons ’ songs. The Four Seasons have undergone numerous personnel changes over the years but the essence of the group has remained with lead vocalist Frankie Valli and songwriter/manager Bob Gaudio.

Their hit songs have become pop standards and their concerttours continue to attract enthusiastic audiences made up of longtime fans and younger people whose acquaintance with the group comes from “oldies ” format radio stations. ” Along with The Beach Boys, The Four Seasons were the only American group to survive the “British Invasion ” of the pop charts in the mid-1960s. It was followed by a string of other hit songs including “Big Girls Don ’t Cry, ” “Walk Like a Man, ” and “Let ’s Hang On to What We ’ve Got. Coming together in the mid-1950s, they had their first major hit “Sherry ” in 1962.

With their distinctive style of music -perhaps best described as power doo-wop -The Four Seasons have enjoyed a long and extremely successful career in popular music.

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