LP ON STAGE WITH THE FOUR SEASONS RECORDED LIVE 1965 VEE-JAY NM NEAR MINT

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The album here called On Stage with the Four Seasons (which has also been called Live on Stageand Recorded Live on Stage) is a real curiosity, on the other hand. The Four Seasons left Vee-Jay Records for Philips Records by the end of 1963, but they were trailed by lawsuits that apparently were resolved in 1965 when it was decided the group owed Vee-Jay one more album. They then delivered this one, which is not really a live recording (it features canned applause and audience noise dubbed onto studio recordings) and is not at all characteristic of them. At least, it's not characteristic of them as of November 1965, when it was released. It sounds like what the group might have been like in, say, 1961, playing nightclubs before a big band. What the group liked to call the "sound of Frankie Valli," i.e., their lead singer's piercing falsetto, is largely absent, as are any of the Four Seasons' hits except, in part, for "Sherry." That song appears in excerpts during a comic piece called "How Do You Make a Hit Song?" (Another "special material" number is the track called "Mack the Knife," which contains very little of the familiar song by that name, instead being set to the tune of "MacNamara's Band.") On many tracks, the Four Seasons sing standards in harmony without any individual lead vocal, and even when Valli takes the microphone alone, on "By Myself" and "My Mother's Eyes" (the latter a remake of the first song he ever recorded, back in 1953), he sings in a straight tenor without taking off for the stratosphere. Vee-Jay made the LP one of its final releases, then went bankrupt, after which the Four Seasons bought back their masters, and this recording has largely languished in obscurity.

LISTEN "Little Boy (In Grown Up Clothes)"

• 1965 LP Released on Vee-Jay Records # VJLP-1154 (Monaural).
  
• Jacket has some slight ring, corner & edge wear. There are no cut out marks on the album. 
  
• Record is in NM Condition and will Perform with Brilliant Sound Reproduction. Original Vee-Jay record sleeve is included.
  
• Record is Professionally Cleaned for your listening pleasure.
  

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