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Chameleon (1972) was the only Four Seasons long-player released during Frankie Valli and company's brief association with Motown. While Valli's Inside You (1975) was issued on the parent label, this nine-track platter was relegated to the MoWest subsidiary. By the early '70s the original lineup of the Four Seasons had more or less dwindled down to co-founders Valli and Bob Gaudio (keyboards/vocals). As evidenced by the slick pop production values, the audio architects at Motown were treating the Four Seasons like any one of their other assembly-line vocal groups. Even though Valli and Gaudio had been concurrently incorporating the talents of Al Ruzicka (keyboards), Billy DeLoach (guitar), Lee Shapiro (guitar), Clay Gordon (guitar), and Paul Wilson (drums), it was music by committee thanks to Motown's behind the scenes movers and shakers known as the Corporation. Bookending the first part of the effort is the optimistic "A New Beginning," encompassing the funky, upbeat "Sun Country" as well as the sleeper soul classic "The Night." The latter garnered copious spins in the northern U.K. discotheque scene and subsequently became a Top Ten hit for Valli in England. The remainder of the disc vacillates between the musically audacious yet intimately arranged and introspective "When the Morning Comes" and, in stark contrast, the emphatic four-on-the-floor disco predecessor "Touch the Rainchild." Hip-O Select paired Chameleon with Inside You onto Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons' double-CD The Motown Years (2008) entry, which also included a handful of hard to find non-LP sides.
© Lindsay Planer /TiVo
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Bob Crewe, ComposerLyricist - Bob Gaudio, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons, MainArtist
℗ 1972 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Bob Gaudio, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons, MainArtist
℗ 1980 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Bob Gaudio, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons, MainArtist - Brit Gaudio, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1972 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Joe Long, Bass Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Gaudio, Producer, Piano, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Frankie Valli, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Al Ruzicka, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Paul Wilson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons, MainArtist - Demetri Callas, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1972 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Bob Crewe, ComposerLyricist - Bob Gaudio, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons, MainArtist
℗ 1972 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Bob Gaudio, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons, MainArtist
℗ 1972 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Joe Scott, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Gaudio, Producer - Al Ruzicka, ComposerLyricist - Dave Blumberg, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons, MainArtist
℗ 1972 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Bob Gaudio, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Al Ruzicka, ComposerLyricist - Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons, MainArtist
℗ 1972 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Charles Calello, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Gaudio, Producer - Robert Gaudio, ComposerLyricist - Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons, MainArtist - Brit Gaudio, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1972 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
Chameleon (1972) was the only Four Seasons long-player released during Frankie Valli and company's brief association with Motown. While Valli's Inside You (1975) was issued on the parent label, this nine-track platter was relegated to the MoWest subsidiary. By the early '70s the original lineup of the Four Seasons had more or less dwindled down to co-founders Valli and Bob Gaudio (keyboards/vocals). As evidenced by the slick pop production values, the audio architects at Motown were treating the Four Seasons like any one of their other assembly-line vocal groups. Even though Valli and Gaudio had been concurrently incorporating the talents of Al Ruzicka (keyboards), Billy DeLoach (guitar), Lee Shapiro (guitar), Clay Gordon (guitar), and Paul Wilson (drums), it was music by committee thanks to Motown's behind the scenes movers and shakers known as the Corporation. Bookending the first part of the effort is the optimistic "A New Beginning," encompassing the funky, upbeat "Sun Country" as well as the sleeper soul classic "The Night." The latter garnered copious spins in the northern U.K. discotheque scene and subsequently became a Top Ten hit for Valli in England. The remainder of the disc vacillates between the musically audacious yet intimately arranged and introspective "When the Morning Comes" and, in stark contrast, the emphatic four-on-the-floor disco predecessor "Touch the Rainchild." Hip-O Select paired Chameleon with Inside You onto Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons' double-CD The Motown Years (2008) entry, which also included a handful of hard to find non-LP sides.
© Lindsay Planer /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 9 track(s)
- Total length: 00:33:33
- Main artists: The Four Seasons
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: UNI - MOTOWN
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 1972 UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 1972 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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