Classic or Dud: "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" (Frankie Valli)

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And any other good covers of this one?

― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

I don't know if I'd nominate Jim Belushi croaking this in Wild Palms as 'good' exactly ...

Okay, dorky sci-fi reference, sorry.

― Dare (Dare), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

Christopher Walken in The Deer Hunter. Arms flung wide, belting out "I LOVE YOU BABY!!" Pretty damn great.

― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

fugees

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

Pet Shop Boys, obviously.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)

andy williams, quite obviously

― powpowpow, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

Lauryn Hill, quite obviously. Mashed up with the Pet Shop Boys version, quite obviously.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

Muse, bloody obvious.

― elgolfo (elgolfo), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

forget the covers, Frankie's version is not just classic, but easily one of the best songs, best arrangements, best performances, best singles, best thing every on this planet.

but see also that movie Conspiracy Theory.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 05:08 (twenty years ago)

unbelievable classic.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 05:09 (twenty years ago)

I just heard a cover of this the other day, but I can't remember who performed it. I just remember being disappointed because they didn't rock the horn part that comes right before the chorus in the original. It's that duh-DUM, duh-DUM, duh-duh-DUM-dee-DUM that just makes this song.

Also, mark this song down for me as one of those classic oldies that I didn't know the name of until I was in my thirties. "Can't Take My Eys Off You" would've been Number Three on my list of possible titles, coming in behind "I Love You, Baby" and "You're Just Too Good to Be True".

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

It's a shame maybe, but I hate this song, dunno why...

― zeus (zeus), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

I can imagine somebody not liking this song - I used to hate most of those 1968-style rock-songs-with-Vegas-horns myself, just on principle - but I think it's just great, myself. That chorus is so jubilant/schmaltzy. Was that the first hit in which Valli started laying off on the falsetto? Every time his name comes up on ILM I mentally chastise myself for not owning a good Four Seasons comp. (Or even a bad one for that matter.)

Is it a false memory of mine, or did Leonard Nimoy (or some other "Golden Throat"-type singer) cover this song?

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

Fucking Hell, C'MON!!!! Andy Williams? Lauryn Hill?, What about The Boystown Gang - fabulous gay disco version featuring two of the most wooden dancers in the history of popular music. Pure Gold!

― Gordon King, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

Lauryn Hill. That's the cover I heard that was pretty flat.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 24 November 2005 05:43 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

Can anybody watch this and not feel a small shiver of anticipation at the chorus?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0IM7Mvg80w

― Can't stop the dancing chickens (dyao), Thursday, 4 June 2009 15:46 (sixteen years ago)

Christopher Walken in The Deer Hunter. Arms flung wide, belting out "I LOVE YOU BABY!!" Pretty damn great.
― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 00:44 (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Didn't Richard Gere do this in American Gigolo as well?

― Mark G, Thursday, 4 June 2009 15:50 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9KAqhbIZ7o

― bidfurd, Thursday, 4 June 2009 18:33 (sixteen years ago)

like almost all of their singles, this is straight fire

― k3vin k., Thursday, 4 June 2009 18:35 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

never noticed how much of a fucking engine the rhythm section is on this, whoever it is lays down a fucking beat

― waka flocka flame for all time (dayo), Sunday, 12 September 2010 10:11 (fifteen years ago)

aaaaaarchkfkadjfafjioa it is just killing me how good it is

― waka flocka flame for all time (dayo), Sunday, 12 September 2010 10:29 (fifteen years ago)

yeah this song is amazing, no question

― teledyldonix, Sunday, 12 September 2010 16:49 (fifteen years ago)

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