Made up of members Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi, The Four Seasons released plenty of hits ...

Valli and Nick Massi were both born and raised in Newark ... love songs and party songs,” Kappus says and adds that The Four Seasons sang about the type of people they knew, the same people ...

DeVito teamed up with Valli in 1956 and four years later they formed the Four Seasons with Gaudio and Nick Massi. Their hits included Oh What a Night, Sherry, Big Girls Don't Cry and Walk Like a Man.

DeVito, Valli, Gaudio and Nick Massi founded the American rock and pop band the Four Seasons in 1960 and went on to create such hit songs as "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Sherry" and "Walk Like a Man." ...

He formed a band called the Variety Trio with one of his brothers and Nick Massi, who would become the fourth member of the Four Seasons when that group coalesced in about 1960. (Mr. Massi died in ...