FRANKIE VALLI SOLO REISSUES

Collectors’ Choice Music has announced that itis releasing eight Frankie Valli solo albums as four two-fers all available on June 24. "Solo/Timeless"; "Close Up/Valli"; "Our Day Will Come/Lady Put The Light Out"; and "Frankie Valli…Is The Word/Heaven About Me."

Included on the new reissues are all of Frankie Vallis solo hits. Included on "Solo" is "Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You" and "The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine (Anymore)." "Timeless" (release in 1968) features "To Give (The Reason I Live)."

"Solo" and "Timeless." Valli's debut features a cover photo with the signer standing on a silver platter being held up by the other three members of the Four Seasons. The CD includes "Can’t Take My Eyes Off You" and "The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine (Anymore)." "Timeless," from 1968, includes "To Give (The Reason I Live)."

"Close Up" and "Valli": Frankie Valli shifted to Motown’s pop label and then to Private Stock in 1975. When he left Motown, he paid a reported $4,000 for the master of a song he thought could be a hit. The song was "My Eyes Adored You," which appeared on "Close Up." Also featured in "Close Up" is the disco smash "Swaerin’ TO God". "Valli," recorded in 1976, includes Boz Scaggs’ "We’re All Alone."

"Our Day Will Come" and "Lady Put The Light Out": features Frankie Valli's disco version of the Ruby & the Romantics hit is the lead track on his first album during the disco era; abd "Lady Put the Light Out" featured three contributions from the Raspberries’ Eric Carmen.

"Frankie Valli . . . Is The Word" and "Heaven About Me": Frankie Valli then moved to the Warner/Curb label for his 1978’ relasese "Frankie Valli. . . Is The Word," which followed his cameo in "Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band." (It's where he met Barry Gibb.) Gibb was commissioned to write the title song for the film adaptation of "Grease," which Valli recorded and became a No. 1 hit. "Heaven Above Me," released on MCA/Curb in 1980, featured "Where Did We Go Wrong," a duet with Chris Forde that Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio co-wrote.