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The first Valli song to incorporate the disco style (it runs four minutes as a single but just over ten minutes on the album), [5] "Swearin' to God" features Patti Austin singing a response to Valli's praise in the bridge. [3] [6] "Swearin' to God" hit number 6 on the U.S. Billboard charts [4] and also charted #31 in the UK. [7]
In August 1975, "Who Loves You" entered the Hot 100 as Frankie Valli's "Swearin' to God" was sliding off the chart. This was the final Four Seasons hit featuring bassist and backing vocalist Joe Long. [5] [6] As Valli was overseas and unavailable during the initial recording session, Don Ciccone took over lead vocals.
I was very lucky to make the transition to 'My Eyes Adored You' and 'Swearin' to God', which had none of that." Valli also recalled that the record had been mothballed by The Four Seasons' record company for a year because of their fear that The Four Seasons (who had already lost Nick Massi in 1965) were breaking up, to which Valli insisted ...
In a retrospective review, Joe Viglione of AllMusic recalled that the album "is singer Frankie Valli again finding the magic without his Four Seasons, this time in the '70s with two big hits in two different genres", and called it "an important and forgotten catalog item that needs to be expanded and re-released with bonus tracks and liner notes that give it its proper place in music history."
"Swearin' to God" (1975) "My Eyes Adored You" is a 1974 song written by Bob Crewe and Kenny Nolan. [3] It was originally recorded by The Four Seasons in early 1974.
Born in Newark in 1930 [1] and raised in Belleville, New Jersey, Crewe demonstrated an early and apparent gift for both art and music. [citation needed] Although lacking in formal musical training, he gravitated to learning from many of the great 19th- and 20th-century classical romantic composers as well as giants of jazz and swing, including Stan Kenton, Harry James, Duke Ellington, Benny ...
Swearin' is a Philadelphia-based musical group made up of singer/guitarist Allison Crutchfield, singer/guitarist Kyle Gilbride, bassist Keith Spencer and drummer Jeff Bolt. [1] They released two albums and an EP. [2] The band split in 2015 and Crutchfield embarked on a solo career.
The song's composers were hoping to place "Our Day Will Come" with an established easy listening act and only agreed to let the new R&B group Ruby & the Romantics record the song after Kapp Records' A&R director Al Stanton promised that, if the Ruby & the Romantics' single failed, Kapp would record the song with Jack Jones.