The Four Seasons are an American rock-and-roll group that emerged as one of the best-selling recording artists of the early and mid-1960s. The band is best remembered for lead singer Frankie Valli’s soaring falsetto and a string of more than 25 hits over a five-year period beginning with “Sherry” in 1962. The principal members included Frankie Valli (originally Francis Castelluccio), Tommy DeVito, Bob Gaudio, and Nick Massi (originally Nicholas Macioci).

The group evolved from a Newark vocal group called the Varietones and was briefly known as the Four Lovers before becoming the Four Seasons. They developed a harmony-based style with Italian American doo-wop origins, similar to Dion and the Belmonts. Bob Gaudio, along with producer Bob Crewe, became the group’s chief songwriter. The Four Seasons produced numerous rhythm-and-blues and rock-and-roll hits, initially for Vee Jay and later for Philips Records. Their top-10 hits included “Big Girls Don’t Cry” (1962), “Walk Like a Man” (1963), “Dawn (Go Away)” (1964), and “Let’s Hang On!” (1965).

Frankie Valli also pursued a parallel solo career, achieving success with “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” (1967). Although the group’s popularity waned in the late 1960s, it experienced a resurgence in the mid-1970s with Valli’s solo hits “My Eyes Adored You” (1975) and “Grease” (1978), and the Four Seasons’ hits “Who Loves You” and “December 1963 (Oh What a Night)” (both 1975).

The Four Seasons' story was dramatized in the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Jersey Boys, which premiered in 2006 and was adapted into a film in 2014. The original lineup of the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990 and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1999. The band continues to tour, with Frankie Valli as the sole remaining original member, backed by a new lineup.