Tuesday, September 2, 2025

"Surfers Rule"

I listened to The Very Best of Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons yester-day and was finally able to investigate and confirm something I'd suspected about "Surfers Rule" after listening to Surfer Girl in July last year.

In the coda, over the repeated line "Four Seasons, you'd better believe it," Brian sings a wordless falsetto part, something like this:


This is taken almost directly from the Four Seasons' "Walk Like a Man."  At the beginning, Frankie Valli sings his own falsetto part, something like this:


(With some small variation, these phrases also appear in the middle of the song and again in the coda.)

There's a slight difference in the rhythm in the second measure, but the intervals are exactly the same (in the top line, at least).