2nd Vault of Golden Hits

by The Four Seasons

Product Description:

A well-programmed, if necessarily incomplete (only 12 tracks) best-of by one of the great critically underappreciated bands of the '60s. The song selection splits the difference between the Season's pure pop side (glorious, even surreally giddy confections like "Candy Girl," "Connie-O," and the authentically sublime "Marlena," with its impossible-to-forget "roopie-doopie-doop" chorus) and their later more musically complex stuff, including the Motown-influenced "Working My Way Back to You" and "Opus 17 (Don't You Worry 'Bout Me)." If you prefer the pure pop stuff, however, there's no need to apologize; in fact, thanks to Seasons songwriter Bob Gaudio's infectious tunes, lead singer Frankie Valli's seemingly helium-induced falsetto and Bob Crewe's psychedelically vivid productions, one can make a reasonable case that some of the stuff here is the purest pop music ever made.