SPECIALS

SPECIALS

Tempus fugit. Down at the recent GOP convention, actress Terry Moore announced to a group of Youths For Nixon that among many other acts, Frankie Valli and the 4 Seasons would be appearing at the evening's Rock 'n' Roll Revival Re-election Rally. �Who�, piped up one apple-cheeked YFN, �is Frankie Valli and The 4 Seasons?� Who indeed. Granted that this newly enfranchised Republican was a mere third grader when �Sherry� squealed to the top of the charts, somehow the word should have Filtered down to him. After all, they�ve sold tens of millions of records (mostly small ones with big holes) over the past decade, and have recently made two mandatory moves for the refurbishment of fading rock groups, namely a label change and the performing retirement of their resident song-writer �to concentrate on studio work�. Not that all this is likely to do much good. More than any of their contemporaries, the Seasons are a breathing, whining anachronism, as out of step as the President they support. Actually, even at their peak, their image and lyrical thematic preoccupation kept them curiously apart from the pop mainstream.