Who Loves You (song): Difference between revisions - Wikipedia
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| genre = [[Disco]]<ref name="Lounge 1998">{{cite book|last= Burke|first= Ken|chapter= Frankie Valli/Four Seasons|editor-last= Knopper|editor-first=Steve|date=January 1, 1998|title=MusicHound Lounge: The Essential Album Guide|publisher=[[Visible Ink Press]]|location=Detroit|pages= 465-466}}</ref>
| genre = [[Rock music|Rock]], [[disco]]
| length = 4:04 (single version)<br>4:22 (album version)
| label = [[Warner Bros. Records|Warner Bros.]]/[[Curb Records|Curb]]
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==Song information==
After their release from Philips, the group signed with [[Motown Records|Motown]] and released one album and three singles for the organization in 1972 and 1973. All Motown recordings failed to chart in the U.S. and the company dropped the band.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> In August 1975, "Who Loves You" entered the Hot 100 as [[Frankie Valli]]'s "[[Swearin' to God]]" was sliding off the chart. This was the final Four Seasons hit featuring bassist and backing vocalist [[Joe Long]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thatfourseasonssound.typepad.com/seasonally/2011/04/how-i-met-the-famous-joe-long-.html|title = How I met the famous Joe Long !}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nj1015.com/joe-long-dishes-on-jersey-boys-time-with-the-four-seasons/|title = Joe Long dishes on 'Jersey Boys,' time with the Four Seasons| date=21 February 2019 }}</ref>
As Valli was overseas and unavailable during the initial recording session, [[Don Ciccone]] took over lead vocals. When Warner Bros. heard the record, according to Ciccone, they were so impressed that they declared Ciccone the group's new lead singer, which prompted them to release the album despite Valli's existing deal with [[Private Stock Records]]. Valli, unwilling to give up his position and "annoyed" at Warner Bros.' decision, halted the song's release and re-recorded part of the lead vocal so to retain his position as lead singer.<ref>{{cite web|title=Gary James' Interview With Don Ciccone Of The Four Seasons|url= http://www.classicbands.com/FourSeasonsInterview.html|access-date= July 24, 2020|publisher= classicbands.com|first=Gary|last=James}}</ref>
Though [[Bob Gaudio]]'s then-girlfriend [[Judy Parker]] is credited as a songwriter on the record, she had not yet begun songwriting by the time the song was recorded. Parker would contribute her first lyric to their next song "[[December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)]]."<ref name=storybehind>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbR-Wj6yL6w December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) The Story Behind The Song]. ''[[Top 2000#Other media|Top 2000 a gogo]]''. [[Nederlandse Publieke Omroep (organisation)|Netherlands Public Broadcasting]]. Retrieved February 11, 2024.</ref>
==Reception==
''[[Cash Box]]'' called it "a high-energy, commercially potent disk with high vocal work and sweet strings — and a rhythm that can make time in any disco."<ref name=cb>{{cite news|title=CashBox Singles Reviews|date=August 2, 1975|page=20|accessdate=2021-12-11|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1975/CB-1975-08-02.pdf|newspaper=Cash Box}}</ref> ''[[Record World]]'' said that "[the group's] trademark sound moves onward!"<ref name=rw1>{{cite magazine|magazine=Record World|date=August 2, 1975|accessdate=2023-03-09|title=Single Picks|page=12|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Record-World/70s/75/RW-1975-08-02.pdf}}</ref>
== Personnel ==
* [[Frankie Valli]] – co-lead vocals, backing vocals
* [[Don Ciccone]] – bass, co-lead and backing vocals, electric rhythm guitar
* [[Joe Long]] - bass backing vocals and bass guitar<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thatfourseasonssound.typepad.com/seasonally/2011/04/how-i-met-the-famous-joe-long-.html|title = How I met the famous Joe Long !}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nj1015.com/joe-long-dishes-on-jersey-boys-time-with-the-four-seasons/|title = Joe Long dishes on 'Jersey Boys,' time with the Four Seasons| date=21 February 2019 }}</ref>
* [[John Paiva (musicain)|John Paiva]] – electric guitar, backing vocals
* [[GerryJohn PolciPaiva (musician)|John Paiva]] – drumsbacking vocals, co-electric lead and backing vocalsguitar
* [[Gerry Polci]] – lead vocals, backing vocals, drums
* [[Lee Shapiro (musician)|Lee Shapiro]] – backing vocals, keyboards, piano, string arrangements, synthesizers, backingstring vocals\arrangements
* [[Bob Gaudio]] – piano, keyboards, producer
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The song was often used as [[bumper music]] by late night radio talk show host [[Art Bell]] when he hosted ''[[Coast to Coast AM]]'' in the 1990s.
[[Christopher Knowles (poet)|Christopher Knowles]] references the song-title and Valli/Four Seasons in a section of the libretto of ''[[Einstein on the Beach]]''.<ref>Christopher Knowles' transcription of and relationship with Top-40, AM radio station WABC in the early 1970s, and specifically the juncture of the charting of Valli's "Swearin' to God" and "Who Loves You" in late-1975/early-1976, is something documented and analyzed in detail by Robert Fink in "''Einstein'' on the Radio", in Jelena Novak and John Richardson, eds., ''Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama'' (London: Routledge, 2019). {{ISBN|1317145380}}</ref>
==References==