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Track Listing
1. Candy Girl
2. Happy Happy Birthday Baby
3. Honey Love
4. Soon (I'll Be Home Again)
5. Stay
6. Dumb Drum
7. Marlena
8. Long Lonely Nights
9. New Mexican Rose
10. That's the Only Way
11. Melancholy
12. Ain't That a Shame
| Details | | Distributor: | WEA (distr) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito, Nick Massi.
The Season's second album of 1963 (Ah, for the days when bands had a work ethic) is typical of its time--pre-Beatles--in that it's based around a recent hit or two, with the rest being more or less filler; in this case it's a mixture of originals by genius producer/songwriter Bob Crewe and '50s doo-wop tunes on which the group had cut their teeth. The group's singing, however, is glorious throughout, and the album's hit singles--particularly the definitive cover version of Maurice Williams' "Stay," the proto-bubblegum psychedelia of "Candy Girl" and the genuinely sublime "Marlena," with its unforgettable "roopie-doopie doop" chorus --are innovative reworkings of the East Coast harmony vocal style, as well as important steps along the road toward the pure-pop ear candy the Seasons and Crewe would soon pursue in earnest.
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