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The Four Seasons is an American rock band formed in 1960 in Newark, New Jersey.Since 1970, they have also been known at times as Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.Known for the use of a traditional Italian-American sound, [5] they are one of the best-selling musical groups of all time, having sold an estimated 100 million records worldwide.
Robert John Gaudio (born November 17, 1942) is an American songwriter, singer, musician, and record producer, and the keyboardist and backing vocalist of the pop/rock band the Four Seasons. Gaudio wrote or co-wrote the vast majority of the band's music, including hits like " Sherry " and " December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) ", as well as " Can't ...
Past and present members of the band The Four Seasons, sometimes known as Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. Pages in category "The Four Seasons (band) members" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
Toni is the eldest daughter of Valli and Mandel. Toni later married Gerry Polci, a member of her father’s Four Seasons band, in 1987. “I first saw him when I was 15,” she previously told The ...
By 1960 The Four Lovers consisted of DeVito, Valli, Gaudio and vocal arranger Nick Massi, and were mainly used as a backup band for producer Bob Crewe under contract. This is the lineup which adopted the name "The Four Seasons" (billed numerically as the 4 Seasons on most of their early albums), named after a bowling alley in Union, New Jersey ...
Valli was born Francesco Stephen Castelluccio [10] on May 3, 1934 [11] to an Italian family in the First Ward of Newark, New Jersey; he is the eldest of three sons. [12] His father, Antonio (Anthony) Castelluccio, who had immigrated to the U.S. from Faiano, Salerno, Campania, was a barber and display designer for Lionel model trains; his mother, Mary Rinaldi, who was from Avellino, Campania ...
Shapiro did not give up performing, and in 2010 he formed the band The Hit Men. Initially conceived as a partial reunion of the 1970s-era Four Seasons lineup including Don Ciccone and Gerry Polci, Shapiro revamped the concept after Ciccone's death in 2016. [4] Shapiro was married in 1977 to Georgia and they have one daughter, Ariel. [1]
Gerald Michael Polci (born June 9, 1952) is an American singer and musician who was a member of the American rock and pop band The Four Seasons. Polci played and sang in the band variously between 1973 and 1990. He sang lead and played drums on a number of their major hits, including the 1976 and 1994 worldwide hit, "December, 1963 (Oh, What a ...