Big Girls Don't Cry & 12 Others (Vee Jay, 1963)

[John]

A bumper 13 songs including a repeat as Big Girls Don't Cry re-appears on this second album. The other Big Hit from this album is Walk Like a Man, familiar to most people even now. This album has some great songs on it, such as the show-opener over many years "Since I Don't Have You", performed exactly as on this record, which is amazing. I've never understood though why such a simple song took Beaumont, Vogel, Verscharen, Lester, Taylor, Rock and Martin to write it! Some terrific performances and no abatement of The "sound" of Frankie Valli, as it was billed up to about 1969. There are some grotesque arrangements here, but to be honest I like them.