Comments on: Today in Frankie Valli Music History: March 22, 1975

By: Ted Hammond

Ted Hammond — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 04:12:32 +0000

“My Eyes Adored You” has musical tonal progressions, instrumentation, and lyrical themes that are reminicent of “You’re Ready Now”, “Save It For Me”, and “Big Man In Town”, and that is how the song quickly recaptured the ears of all their early fans. They were the ones who heard it first. Give those earlier songs a listen, along with MEAY and you’ll hear it.

By: David Cace

David Cace — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:09:45 +0000

Always good to reminisce about this song â€“ itâ€™s such a great song â€“ the melody is so infectious. I remember seeing Frankie in concert in late 73 or early 74 and he would sing â€œMy Eyes Adored Youâ€ without any fanfare or introduction and I would say thatâ€™s a nice song with a catchy melody. It sought of grew on you and eventually it grew on everyone else as Ted points out above and it became a number one song. â€œMy Eyes Adored Youâ€ is truly Frankieâ€™s come back song, and a testament to staying with what you believe in. Without â€œMy Eyes Adored Youâ€ there may not have been a 4 Seasonsâ€™ resurgence with â€œWho Loves Youâ€ and â€œDecember â€˜63.â€

According to co-writer Kenny Nolan, the original words he had a dream about were â€œBlue Eyes in Georgiaâ€¦Theyâ€™re the only eyes I ever loved, my eyes in Georgia.â€ The next day when he was putting a demo of the song on cassette â€œBlue Eyes in Georgiaâ€ became â€œMy Eyes Adored You.â€ A few years later, Kenny Nolan recorded a song by himself called â€œI Like Dreaminâ€™â€ and had a big hit with it with basically the same melody.

By: Howard

Howard — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:51:55 +0000

This song brings back such incredible memories. It was on Saturday, Nov. 30 when my father and I first heard this song. We hadn’t heard from Frankie in a while and were touched by his beautiful re-entry to the charts. I also remember in March, 1975, listening to Casey Kasem’s Top 40 and hoping that Frankie would best Minnie Ripeton’s “Lovin’ You” and La Belle’s “Lady Marmalade” (also written by Kenny Nolan, by the way) for the top spot. He did, and the rest is history, of course.

By: sharon wardlow

sharon wardlow — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:02:06 +0000

FV and his music never ages…timeless!

By: Ted Hammond

Ted Hammond — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:46:34 +0000

It took a couple of months before “real” Top 40 stations started to play it. It was being played by a lot of traditional Adult Contemporary stations, especially FMs that were once Beautiful Music, and quite a few AM stations that had been Top 40 but changed to Adult Contemporary in the late 1960s to early 1970s.

It didn’t break into true Top 40 stations much until mid January. If you look at the ARSA site, you’ll see that it started to break Top 40 at many of the the same stations and markets that the early Four Seasons records did.

The slow breakout into Top 40 is why it took 18 weeks to get to #1 Hot 100, a record for the longest at that time.