It peaked in the Top Five in November. In October, Motown took advantage of Valli's renewed popularity by releasing Inside You, an album consisting mostly of previously unreleased tracks; it sold modestly. But Who Loves You revealed that Valli was taking a less dominant role in the group than he had in the '60s. The track became a major hit, topping the charts, which seemed to bode well for a plan by which Valli and Gaudio, while retaining ownership of the group's name with Gaudio continuing to write and produce the records would spin the Four Seasons off as a separate act from Valli, who would go on solo completely, once and for all.
Valli, his LP release for the year, did not sell. Valli's album, Lady Put the Light Out, did not sell, nor did the singles he released that year. Nevertheless, he took even more of a back seat on the next Four Seasons album, Helicon, which barely scraped into the charts, and following a farewell tour, he announced his departure from the group in the fall. His first single of , "I Could Have Loved You," was another failure, but then he was chosen to sing the newly written title song for the film adaptation of the Broadway hit Grease, written by Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees.
Valli sang "Grease" over the opening credits, and his single, released by RSO Records, was a massive hit, peaking at number one in August and going platinum. Valli also had a part in another movie musical released in the summer of , Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Is the Word, that month, and it made the lower reaches of the charts. Unbeknownst to fans, however, he was struggling to overcome otosclerosis, a rare disease that threatened to leave him deaf. Ultimately, he underwent three operations before correcting the problem.
Meanwhile, the Four Seasons, far from flourishing on their own, foundered and broke up in But he also agreed to join a Four Seasons reunion tour that began in the spring of without him, once he had recovered from his last operation.
He was back in time to be with the band for the recording of a live album in July. In addition to touring, Valli found time for occasional acting stints, appearing in the feature films Dirty Laundry , Eternity , Modern Love , and Opposite Corners , and in TV movies. Valli continued to tour extensively. He had a continuing role as a mobster on the acclaimed cable TV series The Sopranos that is, until his character got whacked.
In the mids, he and Gaudio developed a "jukebox" musical featuring Valli and Four Seasons hits. The show brought increased exposure to the group, which in turn led to renewed interest in Valli, who signed a new recording contract with Universal Motown and, on October 2, , released his first solo album in 27 years, Romancing the '60s, a collection of covers of '60s hits he'd never recorded before. Pop - Released by Rhino on Mar 23, Pop - Released by Motown on Jan 1, Frankie Valli has recorded only sparingly as a solo artist, and virtually never after the late '70s.
Culture hounds should already be aware that the Pop - Released by Rhino on Jun 27, Frankie Valli was the voice of the Four Seasons, possessing an astounding high tenor voice that could ascend effortlessly into falsetto range at the b Inexplicably, and almost out of nowhere, Frankie Valli reappeared in on Motown; no doubt a result of the friendship he struck up with the Motown After the commercial failure of his album, Valli, Frankie Valli seemed to have gotten the stars aligned for another comeback with his follow Pop - Released by Rhino on Oct 4, Pop - Released by nagel heyer records on Dec 3, Christmas Music - Released by nagel heyer records on Nov 24, Pop - Released by Rhino on Oct 14, There isn't a lot Frankie Valli hasn't done in a career that's spanned seven decades so far.
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