Rag Doll – THE FOUR SEASONS*****

Save It For Me/Touch Of You/Danger/Marcie/No One Cares/Rag Doll/Angel Cried/Funny Face/Huggin’ My Pillow/ Setting Sun/Ronnie/On Broadway Tonight

Popular vocal group The Four Seasons final US top twenty album of new material, Rag Doll contains the US top ten singles Ronnie and Save It For Me, plus the US chart topping title track which made No. 2 in the UK. Regarded as the best of the group's sixties releases. (US:7)

"Rag Doll was a new step in Four Seasons albums. Previously, the group had filled LPs with covers of oldies after including their current hit. Rag Doll consisted entirely of songs written by group member Bob Gaudio, and was the most consistent regular new studio album The Four Seasons would ever make."

"Unlike a lot of their earlier contemporaries, The Four Seasons took as much care, mostly, making albums as they did cutting those breathless hit singles, the title track of this album being perhaps the most sublime of the lot."

"Rag Doll remains perhaps the most bristling love song in The Four Seasons' repertoire; and, beneath that under crowded 'Wall of Sound' the earnestness in Frankie Valli's voice and the urgency of The Seasons' punctuating lines, tells you everything you need to know about how these guys were closer to being soul singers than their image suggests."

"It was a pity Bob Gaudio and Bob Crewe didn't create more albums like this for The Seasons, instead of relying on old standards and current trends. Every song on this album, could have been an AM radio hit, and the production and musicianship puts this band in a select pantheon of great sixties groups."

"Possibly the most uniquely dynamic vocalist in pop music, Frankie Valli. doing some of Bob Gaudio's and Bob Crewe's most inspired tunes with the original line-up."

"The Four Seasons were one of the few groups to survive the onslaught of the British Invasion which kicked so many early 60s USA hit makers off the charts for good. This album shows the reason why."

"Rag Doll is the greatest Four Seasons album in every respect. The Bob Gaudio/Bob Crewe song writing collaboration reached it's zenith with hook filled songs."