Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill.

And I'm Brian.

And what are we talking about today, Brian?

1969's The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette by Frankie Valley and the Four Seasons.

Okay. What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.

We try to have the conversation that fans do, and then we round out the episode by doing a track-by-track review in which we talk about the things we love about the songs and things we think about while listening to them. It's kind of like,

imagine that we're just a couple of friends hanging out in a room, talking about an album that

they like, and we're just inviting you along for the conversation yeah instead of uh a couple of

renowned experts in a significant large budget studio we're just your two idiot college friends

well imagine uh that we're your two idiot college friends and not two renowned experts in like this really big

yeah that's that's exactly it uh so we're not going to do it alone today no no who we haven't

with us we have mike der rico of the rock under fire podcast uh they are another new jersey

podcast uh they've been around for a little over a year now of the Rock Under Fire podcast. They are another New Jersey podcast.

They've been around for a little over a year now,

and Mike reached out to us.

It was like, hey, guys, like your stuff.

And I went and listened to his stuff,

and I was like, hey, man, like your stuff too.

We should team up a little bit.

You're right down the road or up the road, whatever.

Yeah, like an hour away thereabouts.

And we had him join us to talk about Frankie Valley and the Four Seasons and their album,

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