Frankie Valli - Romancing the 60's
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Artist: Frankie ValliEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-10-02
Music Label: Motown
Soundtracks:
- Take Good Care Of My Baby
- My Cherie Amour
- Spanish Harlem
- Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye
- Any Day Now
- Let It Be Me
- What A Wonderful World
- Call Me
- This Guy's In Love With You
- Sunny
- My Girl/Groovin'
- What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted
- On Broadway (Featuring The Jersey Boys)
Music reviews of Romancing the 60's
Music Review: zzzzzzzz Frankie 's new cd needs a musical difribulator
Rating: 3 Stars
I purchased "Romancing the 60's" on release day expecting an album with a little more "umph". Instead, I spent my hard earned money on an uninspired Frankie Valli plodding through his songs as if someone twisted his arm to do it. At times so so spineless the disc becomes little more than high end Muzak. Frankie, or at least his producer should have had the sense to use livelier tempos, better delivery and maybe some more bottom end, percussion and strings. A song like "Call Me", (likeable at best in its original incarnation by Chris Montes), could have become a great song..instead, we get a medium tempo "death-on two-legs" reading that can't help evoke boredom. I even noticed Frakie looks rather sullen in the one photo contained on the cd package.You might guess that for me the package reinforces what I hear in the music.....boredom. I was notactually expecting "Rag Doll" or the fireworks of "Let's Hang On", but my goodness the songs are top notch pop classics and as such deserved more thoughtful treatment in the production process.
Overall, this album sounds "incomplete", and I can picture a disinterested Frankie rolling his eyes as he vocalizes though these Really, to hear the man near what I can only describe as comatose on some of these tracks is depressing, and it all starts with track 1, the lothargic (not romantic), version of "Take Good Care Of My Baby". Why would a seasoned (excuse the pun),producer or performer use this train wreck version of a great song as an album opener???
The good news is the recording sound quality is is excellent. Noting will change my opinion that this was a well-intentioned and misguided effort. It's a aquandered effort that was robbed of its potential to leave Barry Manilow's recent cover efforts in the dust (Barry sounds bored too). This cd will please die hards who have forgotten what Frankie is really capable of...Listen to the new cover cd by Donny Osmond. It has the pulse lacking in this disc.
A legend like Frankie Valli can do much better.
Description of Romancing the 60's
Oh, what a story. Frankie Valli, who came to fame in 1962 as the lead singer of the Four Seasons, is hotter than ever in the 21st century. Thanks to the volcanic success of the Tony-winning musical Jersey Boys, which chronicles the life and times of Frankie and his legendary group, such classic songs as "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Walk Like a Man," "Rag Doll," and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" are all the rage all over again. As the play enters its third sold-out year on Broadway, and two touring companies of Jersey Boys travel around the U.S., the real Frankie Valli is packing concert halls coast to coast, from the Rose Theater, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, to L.A.'s Kodak Theater, home of the Academy Awards.Now Frankie salutes the decade that made him a star with his first new studio album in 15 years. In "Romancing The '60s", he puts his own stamp on some of his favorite '60s songs, the ones he always wanted to record but somehow got away.
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