The Four Seasons - The Second Disc

UPDATE 4/17/23: New Four Seasons Mega-Box Will Have You Swearin’ to God

April 17, 2023 by Mike Duquette | 21 Comments

The Four Seasons are one of America’s most resonant and enduring pop/rock outfits. Between the group and its distinctive frontman Frankie Valli, they’ve scored around a dozen Top 10 hits – seven of which went to No. 1. Their early output in the ’60s held its own against the British Invasion. They maintained hits into the disco era, and a cover of one of their songs hit the upper reaches of the Billboard Hot 100 in 2021. The original quartet was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Vocal…

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Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Bob Gaudio, Frankie Valli, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, The Four Seasons

Sock It To Me, Baby: Ace Celebrates Bob Crewe on “Whatever You Want”

August 16, 2022 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Yesterday, we looked at Ace Records’ recent anthology dedicated to West Coast producer Gary Usher. Today, we’re heading east… Stanley Robert Crewe of Newark, New Jersey studied architecture and tried his luck as a fashion model before turning full-time to music. Though the handsome young man was a teen idol-in-the-making, he found his truest calling behind-the-scenes. With writing partner Frank Slay, Crewe gifted “Silhouettes” to The Rays and “Tallahassee Lassie” to Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon. He formed his first record company, XYZ, in 1957, and by 1962 had launched arguably his most…

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Ben E. King, Bob Crewe, Bob Gaudio, Chuck Jackson, Dee Dee Sharp, Frankie Valli, Gary Knight, Jerry Butler, Kenny Lynch, The Four Seasons, Various Artists, Walter Jackson

New Four Seasons Mega-Box Will Have You Swearin’ to God

June 28, 2022 by Mike Duquette | 32 Comments

The Four Seasons are one of America’s most resonant and enduring pop/rock outfits. Between the group and its distinctive frontman Frankie Valli, they’ve scored around a dozen Top 10 hits – seven of which went to No. 1. Their early output in the ’60s held its own against the British Invasion. They maintained hits into the disco era, and a cover of one of their songs hit the upper reaches of the Billboard Hot 100 last year. The original quartet was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Vocal…

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Box Sets, CD, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock

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Bob Gaudio, Frankie Valli, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, The Four Seasons

So Much Excitement to Be Found: UMe Reissues Frank Sinatra’s Concept Album “Watertown”

April 12, 2022 by Joe Marchese | 14 Comments

Old Watertown/Nothing much happening down on Main, ‘cept a little rain… Something’s happening in Watertown – on June 3, to be precise. That’s the date when UMe and Frank Sinatra Enterprises (FSE) will release a remixed and expanded edition of Frank Sinatra’s 1970 masterwork Watertown on CD and digital/streaming platforms. In addition, the remixed album only will be reissued on vinyl. Watertown remains an album unlike any other in the Sinatra discography. The seeds of the two-part suite were planted when Sinatra met with Frankie Valli of The Four Seasons. Valli’s longtime…

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Popular Standards/Vocal

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Bob Gaudio, Frank Sinatra, Jake Holmes, The Four Seasons

Feelin’ Groovy: Rhino Plans Vinyl Celebrations for Summer of Love Anniversary

May 30, 2017 by Mike Duquette | 7 Comments

Five decades ago, in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, a social movement was growing. Young people, with heads full of progressive ideas and evolving attitudes toward sex, drugs and rock and roll, were converging on the area to celebrate their personal freedom–an extension of that January’s “Human Be-In” in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The “Summer of Love,” as it was called, was the birth of the modern counterculture, and music played an integral role in the shaping, influencing and mainstreaming of these daring new ideas. Rhino Records will celebrate that…

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Aretha Franklin, Booker T. and the MG's, Dionne Warwick, Dusty Springfield, Judy Collins, Love, Peter Paul and Mary, The Association, The Beau Brummels, The Everly Brothers, The Four Seasons, The Grateful Dead, The Hollies, The Monkees, Tim Buckley, Van Morrison, Vanilla Fudge

Real Gone Celebrates Christmas With The Soulful Strings, John Gary, Four Seasons

December 10, 2015 by Randy Fairman | 1 Comment

Real Gone Music is this year’s source for classic Christmas reissues – including two from our own Second Disc Records imprint! Here, we’re taking a look at three more titles from the label’s Christmas feast! At first glance, The Soulful Strings might appear to be just another of those ubiquitous sixties instrumental studio outfits, delivering MOR versions of the day’s popular hits. Yet, a closer look at Cadet Records’ Soulful Strings – and most of its brethren, truth be told – reveals some of the best musicians of the day, moonlighting from their…

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Frankie Valli, John Gary, The Four Seasons, The Soulful Strings

Release Round-Up: Week of November 6

November 6, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

This week’s Release Round-Up brings the year’s most eagerly-anticipated box set, a stunning new collection from the Fab Four, a Christmas feast including two titles from Second Disc Records, and more! Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series: Volume 12 – The Cutting Edge (Columbia/Legacy) The Best of the Cutting Edge 2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. The Best of the Cutting Edge 3-LP Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. The Cutting Edge 6-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. The Cutting Edge: Collector’s Edition 18-CD: BobDylan.com Exclusive Whether you’re in for the 2-CD, 6-CD, or 18-CD edition, you…

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Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock

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Bob Dylan, Bobby Vinton, Glen Campbell, Jim Nabors, Jimmy Dean, Johnny Mathis, King Crimson, Lynn Anderson, New Order, Ronnie Spector, The Alan Parsons Project, The Beatles, The Four Seasons, The Living Voices, Yes

Spotlight On: The 4 Seasons’ “Sherry” and “Big Girls Don’t Cry” Mono Editions

October 1, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

In recent months, Real Gone Music has further diversified its CD offerings with a line of mini-LP replica editions of rare titles from Banana and the Bunch, The Viscounts, and Jorge Ben. This Friday, the label kicks off an eagerly-anticipated series from New Jersey’s favorite sons, The 4 Seasons. The band’s first and third albums – from 1962 and 1963, respectively – were both headlined by U.S. No. 1 singles. The Vee-Jay releases Sherry and 11 Others (RGM-0386) and Big Girls Don’t Cry and Twelve Others (RGM-0387) might not have the most…

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Frankie Valli, The Four Seasons

Release Round-Up: Week of September 11

September 11, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Second Disc Records is going back to the beach with Ricci Martin, but that’s far from all this week! We’re also taking off with ELO, singing street-corner symphonies with The Four Seasons, and much more! Plus: new titles from classic artists! Ricci Martin, Beached: Expanded Edition (Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) What if key members of The Beach Boys, Chicago, America, and Wings had teamed up to create one of the greatest California rock albums you’ve never heard? Well, they actually did! Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, author…

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Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Rock

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Alice Cooper, Ben Folds, ELO, Iain Matthews, Jeff Lynne, John Pizzarelli, Marvin Gaye, Paul McCartney, Ricci Martin, The Buckinghams, The Four Seasons, The Texas Tornados, The Who

Christmas Joy: Real Gone Kicks off the Holidays with Four Seasons and More in October

August 14, 2015 by Randy Fairman | 2 Comments

It may be hard to believe, but the holiday season will be here sooner than we think! To prove that point, Real Gone Music is getting Christmas started early with its October slate of releases featuring five yuletide gems along with three titles good for year-round enjoyment. This batch of Christmas classics kicks off with the 4 Seasons’ The 4 Seasons Greetings, continuing Real Gone’s series of mono Seasons reissues which began in September. Next, you’ve got holiday tunes from crooner and actor John Gary with his lone RCA Christmas LP. Rounding out…

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Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Barry White, Frankie Valli, George Melachrino, Jay Dee, John Gary, The Beckies, The Four Seasons, The Grateful Dead, The Soulful Strings, The Three Suns

Let’s Hang On! Real Gone Has Four Seasons, Texas Tornados, More in September

July 21, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

We’ve already told you about the two September releases from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music – Wilson Pickett’s The Complete RCA Studio Recordings and an expanded edition of Ricci Martin’s all-star California rock classic Beached – but we know that you’re going to be just as excited about the entire action-packed Real Gone slate! For starters, it’s a line-up that’s always in season – with new deluxe mono mini-sleeve editions of The 4 Seasons’ first two albums for the first time ever on CD, with fresh sound courtesy of the…

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Everything Else, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Doug Sahm, Eydie Gorme, Flaco Jiménez, The Four Seasons, The Texas Tornados