Closeup (Frankie Valli album)


Closeup is an album by Frankie Valli, released in February 1975 on the Private Stock label. It had been seven years since his prior album, and afforded Valli his first of two number-one solo hits in the US. The LP reached #51 on the U.S. Billboard albums chart.
The album contains two hit singles: "My Eyes Adored You" and "Swearin' to God". It also contains Valli's original version of "I Can't Live a Dream," which became a hit for the Osmond Brothers in late 1976.

Reception

In a retrospective review, Joe Viglione of Allmusic recalled that the album "is singer Frankie Valli again finding the magic without his Four Seasons, this time in the '70s with two big hits in two different genres", and called it "an important and forgotten catalog item that needs to be expanded and re-released with bonus tracks and liner notes that give it its proper place in music history."
In his August 1975 review for Stereo Review magazine, Peter Reilly remarked that:

Track listing

Side one
  1. "I Got Love for You, Ruby" – 3:22
  2. "Why" – 2:44
  3. "He Sure Blessed You" – 3:27
  4. "Waking Up to Love" – 4:30
  5. "I Can't Live a Dream" – 3:15
Side two
  1. "My Eyes Adored You" – 3:33
  2. "In My Eyes" – 4:21
  3. "Swearin' to God" – 10:09