Jean Valli - The World's About To Lose [It's Biggest Fool] - [c.1967].
Channel: mrblindfreddy9999
Date: 05/11/2022

[Written by  Penny Jay].

Issued on STOP  ST 154 B [1968].

Recorded Circa  October 1967 Nashville, TN - 
Jean Valli [vcl solo],  others Unknown
Producer : Pete Drake

Only TEN  Known Recordings

Born Jean Valli in New York  13 May 1925 [aka Texas Jean Valli]

Gave Frankie Valli his START and his Name
Born Francesco Stephen Castellucco  3 May 1934
n 1953 as "Frankie Valley", a variation on a name he adopted from "Texas" Jean Valli, a female hillbilly singer. As discussed in a 2014 article, "Frankie said in 2010 that Jean took him to meet music publishers Paul and Dave Kapp, telling them he was her brother. As a result, his first single was listed under 'Frankie Valley', and the name stuck—though he eventually changed it to the same spelling ... [as Texas Jean was using]

Jean Valli was a well-known hillbilly-singer in the 1950s. At one time she had her own band. She accampanied herself with a bass fiddle and guitar. She was known as a top Yodeler, singer, author and composer of western songs. She appeared with such stars as Elton Britt, Hank Williams, Milton Berle, Smiley Burnett Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper and Kate Smith.