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GILG’s Radio Gazette has just posted an in-depth Frankie Valli radio interview that was recorded in Philadelphia in 1974. Frankie talks about the early days before he, Bob, Tommy, and Nick became the Four Seasons; working in the studio with Bob Crewe; the Four Seasons’ string of hits and their evolving “sound”; and quite a [...]

NEWSFLASH: “Beggin’” has debuted on UK’s Dance Singles Chart at Number One! Beggin’ Re-edit on Amazon

News from the UK: Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons’ “Beggin’” has just entered the BBC Top 40 countdown at Number 32 in the first week of physical singles being available!

According to The FADER Magazine, “for the past year or so, Parisian producer Pilooski’s re-edits have been spreading sunlight through the dank crevices of clubland.” Pilooski’s latest re-edit is the Four Seasons’ 1967 hit “Beggin’” that was just picked up by UK label 679. Check out this amazing video created by Cyriak! Beggin’ Re-edit on [...]

Visit GILG’s Radio Gazette to hear Frankie Valli’s fascinating National Public Radio interview! Frankie talks about his early career; his struggles, dreams, and ambitions; the early days of his success with the 4 Seasons; the changing sound of the group over the years; the Beatles; his role on “The Sopranos”; the phenomenal success of Jersey [...]

Josh McAliffe of The TImes-Tribune.com notes that although Frankie Valli is a Jersey boy through and through, Valli also has a fair amount of Northeastern Pennsylvania in him, too. After all, two of the most important women in the singer’s life hail from NEPA — the one who raised him and the one who gave [...]

In Jersey Boys, when Frankie Valli introduces Bob Crewe to Bob Gaudio, Frankie tells Crewe that Gaudio “is the next Otis Blackwell.” This line made me curious to find out more about Otis Blackwell. All I knew about him was that he had written some of Elvis Presley’s early hits, but I figured there was [...]

The long-awaited Rhino boxed set, “Jersey Beat,” featuring a 76-track collection of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons’ hits, along with a spectacular DVD of the group’s rare television, concert, and promotional performances has arrived! “Jersey Beat” is more than a chronological compilation of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons’ blockbuster hits, album cuts, B-Sides, [...]

The one and only Frankie Valli came to see Jersey Boys on Broadway with his twin sons at the Saturday June 9 matinee performance. Turns out Frankie wanted to take his kids to see “Oceans 13,” but the kids chose Jersey Boys instead! Check out Jennifer Naimo’s and Michael Longoria’s blogs for details! Thank you [...]

In a change of pace, Jersey Boys Blog Special Correspondent Howard Tucker spoke with Craig Pilo, the drummer for the Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons’ current touring band. Craig joined Frankie in November 2005 and continues touring with him today. He is also touring with Edgar Winter (“Frankenstein”) and Player (“Baby Come Back”). In [...]

On his Changing Channels blog, Miami Herald reporter Glen Garvin chatted last week with Steve van Zandt, the former E Street Band guitarist who plays family Silvio on “The Sopranos.” Garvin asked who was the Frankie Valli nut on the show. Not only has The Sopranos featured a lot of 4 Seasons’ tunes over the [...]

Paul Hodgins of The Orange County Register spoke to director Des McAnuff and pop icon Frankie Valli about why Jersey Boys is a hit. This blockbuster is a straightforward bio-play about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and written by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice with the blessing of Valli and the group’s songwriting genius, [...]

Lea Lion of LADowntownNews.com states that most Americans of a certain age only need to hear a few notes of one of the Four Seasons’ many chart-topping songs to identify it. In the early ’60s, the pop group recorded its first platinum title, “Sherry,” followed by the big sellers “Big Girls Don’t Cry” and “Walk [...]

Jon Fassnacht of the Reading Eagle says that Frankie Valli entertained an appreciative packed audience Thursday night in the Sovereign Performing Arts Center during a concert to benefit the Mental Health Association of Reading and Berks County. When the Four Seasons scored a hit some 40 years ago with “Working My Way Back to You,” [...]

Check out this great video of Frankie Valli and the Commodores on the “Midnight Special” back in the late ’70s, with Frankie and Lionel Richie sharing the lead vocals on “Grease.” How ’bout those gold chains?

Sad news to report: The real-life “Mary Delgado”–Mary Valli, Frankie Valli’s first wife, passed away on April 28 at the Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, NJ. Mrs. Valli was born in Newark and resided in Nutley before moving to Caldwell 15 years ago. She is survived by her daughter Toni Valli, three grandchildren, and [...]

Jersey Boys Blog would like to wish the legendary Frankie Valli a Happy 73rd Birthday today! In celebration of the day, the Tech Half of JBB has created a video scrap book of some of Frankie Valli’s most memorable performances. Do not press play, but use the forward and back arrows to flip through the [...]

Philly.com reports that Huntingdon Valley’s Jarrod Spector is channeling Frankie Valli, as he’s just landed a primo role in the national tour of the Broadway hit Jersey Boys, the story of the Four Seasons. Spector, 26, is a Germantown Academy grad who went on to Princeton, but realized after two years, a degree in economics [...]

NWITimes.com columnist Phil Potempo reports that Star Plaza Theatre CEO and talent buyer Charlie Blum had good reason to be all smiles last Saturday night backstage with singer Frankie Valli at The Chicago Theatre. Valli had just finished a two-hour dynamite concert produced by Blum, which sold out the historic 3,800-seat venue. After enjoying the [...]