May 3, 2007

Happy Birthday to Frankie Valli!

May 3rd, 2007

Happy Birthday Frankie Valli

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 pages of the scrapbook. Each page has an embedded video that will play when you click on the box to the right of the arrow in the lower left hand corner of the video.

We hope you enjoy the videos and invite you to leave your well wishes to Frankie in the Comments portion of this post.

Happy Birthday again, Frankie! Words can’t express the wonderful joy you have given all of us with your music! Thank you!

22 Comments »

  1. Happy Birthday Frankie

    I hope you have many more. Thanks for the wonderful music. Jersey Rocks.

    Comment by rosy — May 3, 2007 @ 1:01 pm

  2. Happy Birthday, Frankie!!

    JLY

    Comment by John Lloyd Young — May 3, 2007 @ 1:09 pm

  3. Hope your birthday is great Frankie! I look foward to seeing you perform in a couple of weeks! :)

    Comment by A — May 3, 2007 @ 1:57 pm

  4. Frankie, I saw you perform in person just last month! You could give any of our current “American Idol” or “Dancing with the Stars” candidates a run for their money, especially with your high notes on “Stay” and those dance moves on “December, 1963″. Many, many more.

    Comment by Howard Tucker — May 3, 2007 @ 2:43 pm

  5. frankie,
    hope u r having a great birthday!!! :-) hope u have more to come. u are a very awesome idol. NEWARK, NJ rocks (i was also born in newark)

    Comment by Anna — May 3, 2007 @ 3:47 pm

  6. A very Happy Birthday, Frankie! So your birthdate is 5-3-33. Kind of an interesting number to start off an interesting life. In only 73 years, you have experienced so much, but more importantly made so much happen. Although your talent is extraordinary, for me, it is the tenacity which you have and continue to show, that is so inspiring.

    Obviously your life has inspired so many besides me, like… Elice, Brickman, McAnuff and all the Producers, because before Jersey Boys burst on to the stage, they saw something uniquely captivating in the untold story of you and the Four Seasons.

    Thanks so much for your openness in sharing part of your life with us. Enjoy this birthday as well as the many years ahead- not only making music but also inspiring those around you.

    Comment by Audrey — May 3, 2007 @ 5:33 pm

  7. Happy Birthday!! And wishes for many more!

    Frankie, I’ve seen you in concert 3 times since the close of “Jersey Boys” in LaJolla, and you keep getting better and better. I’m looking forward to seeing you again in September in San Diego.

    Brenda

    Comment by Brenda — May 3, 2007 @ 5:45 pm

  8. Happy Birthday Frankie! What an inspiration you are to everyone. Can’t wait to see you perform next week. Have a good one.

    -Kristen

    Comment by Kristen — May 3, 2007 @ 6:49 pm

  9. Happy Birthday, Frankie. I’ve seen your show three
    times in the last year and am looking forward to the
    fourth in Red Bank in a week. You just keep getting
    better and better!

    Pat H

    Comment by Pat Horowitz — May 3, 2007 @ 8:02 pm

  10. HAPPY,HAPPY BIRTHDAY, FRANKIE!!

    Comment by THEA — May 3, 2007 @ 9:45 pm

  11. Dear Frankie,

    I’ve been a huge fan of you and the Seasons since I discovered your music back in the early ’70′s. I have seen you perform in concert close to a dozen times since then, at Madison Square Garden, Central Park, Westbury Music Fair, Radio City Music Hall, the Garden State Arts Center, Purchase College, among many other locations in the New York area, and have always enjoyed your live shows. The great success and adulation “Jersey Boys” has garnered from its tryout in La Jolla, California, to its Broadway run, and now its first and second National Touring Companies has brought you and your bandmates the recognition that was long deserved! I listen to all types of music and have a pretty extensive record (approximately 2000 albums and hundreds of singles) and CD (approximately 1000) collection, but you and The Four Seasons have always been my very favorite musical act. In a slight variation of a song you covered on the “Ain’t That A Shame and 11 Others” album (of which I have the CD version), I’d like to wish you a “Happy, Happy Birthday Frankie.” With many more happy and healthy ones to come!!!

    I look forward to seeing you in concert again soon and am planning on seeing Jersey Boys on Broadway for my third time in the coming months!!

    Thank you for all the wonderful music you have provided over the years!

    Len Gersten

    Comment by Len Gersten — May 3, 2007 @ 11:32 pm

  12. Happy Birthday Frankie, and many, many more. Thank you for all the wonderful music you have given to so many, and for putting New Jersey on the map!! I’ve been a huge fan since the 70′s, and saw you perform many great concerts over the years. You dedicated ‘Happy Birthday Baby’ to me at the Capitol Theatre, on my 16th bday, a special moment. I saw you at NJPAC in December, and you still have great talent and charisma.

    Pamela

    Comment by Pamela — May 4, 2007 @ 11:16 am

  13. Happy Birthday Frankie! It’s been quite a while since I’ve seen you in concert, but nice to know you’re coming back to the San Francisco Bay Area this Summer. I got your DVD from the Atlantic City concert to prevent from suffering Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons + Jersey Boys song withdrawal. Anyways, enjoy this special day and can’t wait to see you perform on stage in a few months. Take care.

    Comment by Mike B. Magbaleta — May 4, 2007 @ 12:45 pm

  14. “Headed for city lights,
    Climbed the ladder up to fortune and fame;
    Worked my fingers to the bone,
    Made myself a name.”

    Well, thanks to the hard work and dedication, the name’s bigger than ever now, Frankie. Congratulations!

    Comment by Howard Tucker — May 4, 2007 @ 11:11 pm

  15. happy birthday frankie manny more.

    Comment by mike marortti — May 7, 2007 @ 5:35 pm

  16. My wife and I caught Frankie’s performance last night at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood NJ, just a short distance from our home and also a short distance from the Stephen Crane housing projects in Newark NJ where Frankie grew up and of which he spoke fondly of last night. The crowd was enthusiastic and Frankie was in fine voice. He did most of his hits, solo and 4 Seasons, and he did 3 songs from his forthcoming album which he said should be released in September: “Call Me,” “Let It Be Me,” and “There is a Rose in Spanish Harlem.” Frankie mentioned that this was the first time he performed any of his new album material live. Based on these “samplers” I am really looking forward to the release of the album; it should be great. “Let It Be Me” and “There is a Rose in Spanish Harlem” were especially well done.

    Comment by David Cace — May 9, 2007 @ 8:50 am

  17. Great review, David. Should Frankie hit the Billboard “Hot 100″ in 2007-8, he’ll be the FIRST artist to hit in SIX decades:

    1956 You’re the Apple of My Eye (#62)
    1960′s Numerous hits
    1970′s Numerous hits
    1980 Spend the Night in Love (#91)
    Where Did We Go Wrong (#90)
    1994 December, 1963 remix (#14)
    2007-8 ??

    When I saw Frankie live in March, I believe he was leaning toward “Call Me” as the first release from the new CD.

    Comment by Howard Tucker — May 9, 2007 @ 9:12 pm

  18. Frankie im from newark also and have been a fan since a kid, i live a few blocks now from a very important site, the four seasons lanes, im so very glad you went there to audition and took that name for the group, i was sitting in thes ame spot today in the parking lot of costco where the bowling lanes were once, happy birthday my italian newark brother and many more.

    Comment by jim petrecca — May 18, 2007 @ 10:42 pm

  19. FRANKIE I AM A VERY BIG FAN. ON MAY 17 MY DAUGHTER AND SAW YOU AT PROCTORS. YOU ARE STILL THE BEST IN MY BOOK. I HAVE LOVED THE 4 SEASONS SINCE YOU STARTED. HOPE YOUR BIRTHDAY WAS GREAT. HAPPY BIRTHDAY . LOVE PATRICIA RHODES

    Comment by patricia rhodes — August 23, 2007 @ 2:42 pm

  20. Hi Fanki,
    My husband and meet in 1975 and “we came to be” 32 years ago, we just celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary and we held a reception in which we dance our song “My Eyes Adored you”, IT WAS AWESOME!
    My husband and I re-lived those memories in just 2 minutes and all our friends our family did too.
    Thank you for giving as such a beautiful song to fall in love with.

    Veronica and Ruben Canadas

    Comment by Veronica Canadas — October 20, 2007 @ 12:39 am

  21. A big “Happy Birthday” FRANKIE from Marlene. Back in the sixties you were fantastic and now you are just absolutely beyond words. You are like a fine wine Frankie that just keeps getting better with time.
    “BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY” is my favortie song. Thanks for the memories.

    An Upstate New York Frankie Valli fan forever!

    ~Marlene~ aka Snookie

    Comment by Marlene Lane — May 3, 2009 @ 2:00 pm

  22. Happy birthday Frankie. I hope you have many more. I wish I werewith you. You are like family to me. I love you frankie,hope to see you soon. A brooklyn fanforever, by the way I live that same neighborhood stewy makes fun of, Linden Houses.I need a hit record.Oh by the way my name is Dawn Williams.

    Dawn

    Comment by dawnwilliams — May 1, 2010 @ 11:28 pm

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