Frankie Valli - Can't Take My Eyes Off You (2023 Remaster)

"Can't Take My Eyes Off You" is a 1967 song written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio. It was recorded and released as a single by Frankie Valli. The song was among his biggest hits, earning a gold record and reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 for a week. Gaudio was a bandmate of Valli's in the Four Seasons. It was Valli's biggest solo hit until he hit No. 1 in 1975 with "My Eyes Adored You".

Gaudio, an original member of the Four Seasons, refers to "Eyes" as "the one that almost got away" until Windsor, Ontario, radio station CKLW (a station also serving the Detroit metro on the American side of the border) intervened. In 1967, the record's producers urged Paul Drew, program director at the legendary station, to consider the tune for rotation. For much of the 1960s and 1970s, CKLW was credited with launching hit records via its powerful signal, blanketing the Great Lakes region. Drew did not warm to the song at first, but accepted an invitation to hear it live at the Roostertail, where Valli was performing a weeklong stint with the Four Seasons. Drew liked what he heard and added the song to his station's playlist. "The switchboards lit up, and the rest, as they say, is history," Gaudio recalls.

Valli recalled to Parade that "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" was the first step in the fulfillment of Valli's goal to sing music that did not require him to use falsetto: "I didn’t want to sing like that my whole life. Once we established the sound, the plan was that eventually I would do solo [records] and some things I really wanted to do. 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 that he had no intentions of ever leaving The Four Seasons.

New remaster from the Four Seasons Anthology.

[keithbrain]

Classic from the legend. Big frankie fan. Great job.

[BoBjjjjs]

Why can't the recording companies not record and mix them this way? Fantastic job mixing it. 😎

[nerkoids]

Oh wow. Can hear it in the first 30 seconds how much you've improved it. This is leaps and bounds over most other versions I've heard so far.

Much drier mix, reduced the harshness and sibilance of the right-ear percussion (which always was a nuisance even in the official remastered versions). Better bass definition. More crack to the drums and the horns sound a lot less compression-modulated than the original, yet you can hear how they slammed the tape to get that very satisfying mid-range crunch.

There's a tiny bit of ear fog with the removal of the reverb from both left and (especially) right panned instruments, but it actually makes it sound a lot warmer and intimate (and not being played in an empty gas drum). I always got the impression they bumped up everything above 3k just so it pops more on AM radio. Your version sounds balanced.

Fantastic remaster!

[bigdproductions]

You done did it again! So clean, so fresh, so gonna replace the other version I have on my Love Songs playlist!

[brazenhammer]

Way Better than the other remastered version

[colinmennie]

Andy Williams had a huge hit with this in England and I love it but for me this will always be the definitive version ❤️

[laura]

Makes me think of him when I hear this. 😞

[OXOMOXO]

THANKS FOR ROLLING OFF THAT TAMBOURINE . . . finally after decades . . .

[Revolutionary_Warī]

Recommendation for a remaster of the Shangri las out in the streets or the 7 minute version of walking in the sand

[Gavin-]

I can some singers try to do the original song but I don’t get it why they should do it nothing beats this first song from The Summer/Winter of 1967.

[木倉谷哲也]

Lyrics:

You're just too good to be true
Can't take my eyes off of you
You'd be like Heaven to touch
I wanna hold you so much
At long last, love has arrived
And I thank God I'm alive
You're just too good to be true
Can't take my eyes off of you

Pardon the way that I stare
There's nothin' else to compare
The sight of you leaves me weak
There are no words left to speak
But if you feel like I feel
Please let me know that it's real
You're just too good to be true
Can't take my eyes off of you

I love you, baby
And if it's quite alright
I need you, baby
To warm the lonely night
I love you, baby
Trust in me when I say
Oh, pretty baby
Don't bring me down, I pray
Oh, pretty baby
Now that I've found you, stay
And let me love you, baby
Let me love you

You're just too good to be true
Can't take my eyes off of you
You'd be like Heaven to touch
I wanna hold you so much
At long last, love has arrived
And I thank God I'm alive
You're just too good to be true
Can't take my eyes off of you

I love you, baby
And if it's quite alright
I need you, baby
To warm the lonely night
I love you, baby
Trust in me when I say
Oh, pretty baby
Don't bring me down, I pray
Oh, pretty baby
Now that I found you, stay
Oh, pretty baby
Trust in me when I say
Oh, pretty baby…

[Thanos-txub]

The Mayor of Munchkinland, whateva happened there…

[Velvetblubonee]

OH OH EVER MUCH BEAUTIFUL YES❤️VELVET BLU BO'NEE🌈