The Four Seasons U.S. Top 30 Singles POLL

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Poll Results

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* 1966: "Working My Way Back to You", #9 4
* 1963: "Walk Like a Man, #1 3
* 1964: "Dawn (Go Away)", #3 3
* 1962: "Sherry", peaked at #1 on Billboard Hot 100 2
* 1967: "Beggin'", #16 2
* 1966: "Tell It to the Rain", #10 2
* 1965: "Let's Hang On!", #3 2
* 1975: "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)", #1 2
* 1966: "I've Got You Under My Skin", #9 1
* 1964: "Stay", #16 1
* 1967: "C'mon Marianne", #9 1
* 1964: "Rag Doll, #1 1
* 1968: "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", #24 0
* 1967: "Watch the Flowers Grow", #30 0
* 1975: "Who Loves You", #3 0
* 1962: "Big Girls Don't Cry", #1 0
* 1963: "Ain't That a Shame", #22 0
* 1964: "Alone", #28 0
* 1966: "Opus 17 (Don't You Worry 'Bout Me)", #13 0
* 1963: "Candy Girl"/"Marlena" #3 (Marlena #36) 0
* 1965: "Don't Think Twice", #20 0
* 1964: "Ronnie", #6 0
* 1965: "Bye, Bye, Baby (Baby, Goodbye)", #12 ("Bye Bye Baby" on initial release) 0
* 1964: "Big Man in Town", #20 0
* 1964: "Save It For Me", #10 0
* 1965: "Girl Come Running", #30 0


original dixieland jaas band (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 01:21 (seventeen years ago)

Walk Like a Man

Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 01:23 (seventeen years ago)

I gotta go w/"Working My Way Back To You" here

original dixieland jaas band (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 01:25 (seventeen years ago)

"Tell It to the Rain."

If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 08:12 (seventeen years ago)

Tough poll

Tom D Gives You the Big Reassure (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 08:53 (seventeen years ago)

absolutely impossible. one of the greatest singles bands ever.

J0hn D., Tuesday, 30 September 2008 12:23 (seventeen years ago)

that said, it's between "Working My Way Back to You" (only the Spinners version is leagues better) and "Dawn" and the generally-underpraised "Ronnie" - sentimentally, "Ronnie" really does it for me ("I'll go on living and keep on forgiving becaaaaaaause/you were my firrrrrst love" - I mean, I haven't heard that song in six years I think but it still jumps right into my brain) but I think "Dawn" shows why they were special - that feeling of plateauing at the chorus, a pretty different feeling for how choruses work emotionally

that's my take, I really love these records, between them & Shangri-Las singles & Warwick/Bacharach stuff I could really be happy forever

J0hn D., Tuesday, 30 September 2008 12:26 (seventeen years ago)

also finally "Dawn" has the great line "girl we can't change the places where we were born," which does so much of the song's work in one unassuming and brutal line

J0hn D., Tuesday, 30 September 2008 12:28 (seventeen years ago)

"Dawn" is truly fantastic

Tom D says "...get them fuckin' up here, ya fuckin' walloper!" (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 12:29 (seventeen years ago)

"Working My Way Back to You" (only the Spinners version is leagues better)

very much OTM

graft Veronica's limbless torso to the 'paalmino' pony called Juno (stevie), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 12:38 (seventeen years ago)

JD makes some good points, but I just really like the arrangements on the later songs better. Could have gone with "Tell It to the Rain," but I picked "C'mon Marianne." Origins of the "Touch Me"/"Lust for Life" beat?

Joseph McCombs, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 16:21 (seventeen years ago)

"Working My Way Back to You" (only the Spinners version is leagues better)

very much OTM

OTM about being OTM

kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 16:49 (seventeen years ago)

"Tell It to the Rain" is such a masterpiece of arranging, and by extension, early stereo imaging. The deployment of strings throughout the 2:20-2:30-something of the record, the hint of tack piano, the way the guitar switches to fuzztone after the SFX thunderclap. Such a great, great record that I hope those guys know. I heard it on an oldies station. Once. I still wonder if the guy cued up the wrong song (or if he was sending a message by playing the "wrong" one).

If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Monday, 6 October 2008 06:37 (seventeen years ago)

I bet David Johansen knows.

If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Monday, 6 October 2008 06:37 (seventeen years ago)

How great it is, that is. But maybe the other thing too.

If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Monday, 6 October 2008 06:39 (seventeen years ago)

Where's "Can't Take My Eyes Off You"? That hit the top 30, surely.

Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 6 October 2008 06:50 (seventeen years ago)

no "the night" on here?

dog latin, Monday, 6 October 2008 08:13 (seventeen years ago)

Obv. wasn't a US Top 30 single, in fact I'm not even sure it was a single in the US - madness!

Tom D says "...get them fuckin' up here, ya fuckin' walloper!" (Tom D.), Monday, 6 October 2008 09:39 (seventeen years ago)

maybe "the night" was more of a uk mod hit than anything else?

dog latin, Monday, 6 October 2008 10:11 (seventeen years ago)

Not mod, it was Northern Soul. 1975.

Tom D says "...get them fuckin' up here, ya fuckin' walloper!" (Tom D.), Monday, 6 October 2008 10:11 (seventeen years ago)

There were no mods in 1975!

Tom D says "...get them fuckin' up here, ya fuckin' walloper!" (Tom D.), Monday, 6 October 2008 10:21 (seventeen years ago)

Oh, wait - "Can't Take..." was actually a Frankie Valli solo effort.

xpost to myself

Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 6 October 2008 13:28 (seventeen years ago)

"Can't Take My Eyes Off You" >>>>>>>>>>> anything on this poll

Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 02:07 (seventeen years ago)

voted dawn, but C'mon Marianne is underrated (and possibly #2 choice of mine)

abusive comments (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 02:11 (seventeen years ago)

Big Man In Town

dan selzer, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 04:29 (seventeen years ago)

absolutely impossible. one of the greatest singles bands ever.

― J0hn D., Tuesday, September 30, 2008 8:23 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

That said - either Working my Way Back or Let's Hang On.

Zangelbert Bingledack (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 04:31 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Monday, 13 October 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

three months pass...

damn straight

:ᴥ: (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 17:42 (seventeen years ago)

eleven months pass...

"Ragdoll," (the song's ending is so great!) "Dawn" or "December, 1963" but that Candy Girl/Marlena double is pretty dope.

Cunga, Friday, 25 December 2009 07:40 (sixteen years ago)


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