Trivia / Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons

• Contractual Obligation Project: When the group left Vee-Jay Records for Philips Records following a lawsuit over unpaid royalties, they were obligated as part of the settlement to deliver one final album for Vee-Jay. They created a "live" album by taking rehearsal recordings and overdubbing crowd noises. Said album mostly featured standards done in a traditional style incongruous with the group's usual sound, perhaps in a deliberate attempt to make the album flop, although it did feature a song done in their usual style ("Little Boy [in Grown up Clothes]", which saw a single release) and a comedy routine which featured excerpts of "Sherry" ("How Do You Make a Hit Song?").
• Descended Creator: Charles Calello, the arranger on most of their hits from The '60s, briefly joined the band as the bass singer and bassist in-between Nick Massi's departure and Joe Long's hiring in 1965. He stuck around long enough to show up on the covers for the Working My Way Back to You and Gold Vault of Hits albums with the rest of the group.
• Referenced by...: Billy Joel got the title for "Just the Way You Are" from the "I love you just the way you are" line toward the end of "Rag Doll", and later directly homaged the group in "Uptown Girl".

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