Four Seasons/Four Lovers 1956 LP
$
326
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Description
Before they became Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, this quartet of Jersey Boys called themselves "The Four Lovers." Actually the band's name was originally "the Varietones," after Nick and Tommy DeVito and Hank Majewski joined up with Valli in 1954, but it was as the Four Lovers that they were signed by RCA Victor in 1956, and it was under that name that the boys made their first records together. They had a minor U. S. hit that same year with You Are the Apple of My Eye, but they were eventually dropped by the label after six additional singles failed to make a mark on the charts. Despite this setback they stayed together, playing clubs and lounges in the Tri-State area for a time before two of the original members called it quits. These vacancies were quickly filled and the new version of the quartet took the name "The Four Seasons," naming themselves after a Union, New Jersey bowling alley that had turned them down for a job in their lounge. The rest of their story is well-known to any fan of 1960s vocal stylings, as Frankie Valli's three-octave shrieking falsetto became one of the most familiar sounds to an entire generation. Here are the boys in their original form as a band, represented by their one full album (Joyride; RCA LPM-1317; 12 tracks; EX/MT condition jacket with no splits, just some light buffing toward the edges on the reverse and some light corner wear; EX/MT [C-8] record with a few very minor surface marks and slight wear at the hole).
