★★★★★
With "Jersey Boys" throwing him back, once again, into the spotlight, Frankie Valli of the Four Seasons steps up with his first solo album since disco died. With his lifelong songwriter and producer partner Bob Gaudio at the helm, Valli (left, with Gaudio) goes back to his '60s heyday to pick out songs he didn't sing the first time around, carefully selecting tunes that haven't been worked to death already...
- www.sfgate.com
2009-11-06
★★★★★
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- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
After the commercial failure of his 1976 album Valli, Frankie Valli seemed to have gotten the stars aligned for another comeback with his 1977 follow-up, Lady Put the Light Out. He assembled a studio full of high-priced New York session players and chose good songs by such notable songwriters as Eric Carmen, Paul Anka, Carole Bayer Sager, and the team of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil for a collection meant to compete in the Adult Pop market with the likes of Barry Manilow...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
In 1980, when Frankie Valli released his eighth solo album Heaven Above Me, the goal he and his long-time creative brain trust of songwriter/producers Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio were pursuing was the same one they had pursued five, ten, even 20 years before, whether on behalf of their group, the 4 Seasons, or Valli solo: hit records...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Closeup is singer Frankie Valli again finding the magic without his Four Seasons, this time in the '70s with two big hits in two different genres. The album is very, very good, and in a roundabout way is a great example of why Clive Davis worked wonders with Bell Records when he turned it into Arista. Former Bell president Larry Uttal had it all in this project, and it should have been much, much bigger -- it should have been the album to firmly establish Private Stock Records as a major player...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Frankie Valli's Timeless is a superb Adult Contemporary recording with stellar arrangements, great song selection, and Valli's distinctive vocal sound. It came after two minor solo hits in 1966 and 1967, "(You're Gonna) Hurt Yourself" and "I Make A Fool of Myself," as well as 1967's Top 5 smash "Can't Take My Eyes Off You," none included here...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Having mounted a surprising comeback with the ballad "My Eyes Adored You" and consolidated it with the disco-ish "Swearin' to God," Frankie Valli made it three hits in a row when his revival of Ruby & the Romantics' 1963 hit "Our Day Will Come," again set to a light disco arrangement, took off for the Top 20 in the fall of 1975, precipitating this tie-in album...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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