Can't Take My Eyes Off You

"Can't Take My Eyes Off You"
Song
B-side	"The Trouble With Me" (from the same album)

"Can't Take My Eyes Off You", written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio, was a 1967 single by Frankie Valli. The song was among Valli's biggest hits, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and earning a gold record. It was one of several hits that Valli recorded without the participation of his vocal group, The Four Seasons, and his biggest "solo" hit until he hit #1 in 1974 with "My Eyes Adored You".

Cover versions

Notable

The song has been covered by a variety of artists over the years. A version by Andy Williams made it to #5 on the UK singles chart in 1968. Samantha Jones recorded it for her 1968 album Call It Samantha. Anni-Frid Lyngstad chose her Swedish-language version (Du är så underbart rar) to be the flipside of a 1967 single release.

A version in Italian (titled "Per ricominciare") was recorded live by Mina in her historical album Mina_alla_Bussola_dal_vivo in 1968. One year later she also recorded the song with the original lyrics for the US market in the album "More than strangers".

In 1982, San Francisco based disco band Boys Town Gang performed a disco version of the song.

In 1991, the Pet Shop Boys used part of the song on their double A-side single "Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You)/How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?", which reached #4 in the U.K. (In the U.S., both sides of the single were released as separate singles and both charted, with "How Can You Expect to be Taken Seriously?" at #93 and the "Where The Streets Have No Name/I Can't Take My Eyes Off You" medley at #72.)

Other renditions of the song to have charted in the U.S. included versions by The Lettermen (#7 in 1968, in a medley with "Goin' Out Of My Head"), Nancy Wilson (#52 in 1969), Maureen McGovern (#27 on the Adult Contemporary chart in 1979), Boys Town Gang (#1 in the Netherlands in 1982) and Lauryn Hill (#35 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart in 1998).

Experimental progressive rock guitarist Bumblefoot recorded a heavy metal version of the song. In 2005 the song was covered by Queens for their debut album "Made For Dancing". In 2007 this song was covered by Soccx. In Germany this song was used for dancing at the ADTV-Worlddance-Day 2010, ChaChaCha-Simultan-Event and Quintal. In 2004, tejano singer Jennifer Peña released a cover version in Spanish, titled "No Hay Nadie Igual Como Tú" for her album Seducción.

By country

Other musicians who have covered the song include:

Australia

Heath Ledger

The Easybeats

David Campbell

Bolivia

Octavia (Bolivian Band)

DJ Vertygo & Belen Ortiz -House Remix-))

Brazil

Pitty

Cídia e Dan

Canada

Percy Faith

Chile

Ángel Parra Trío

China

Leon Lai (Cantonese lyrics)

Prudence Liew (Cantonese lyrics)

Croatia

Vanna, on Electro Team's album Second to none (1994)

Finland

Jormas (1968)

Finntrio (1968)

Heikki Laurila (1971)

Kurre (1995)

C.C. Jenssen, with Paul Tupakka (1997)

Frederik (1992)

Sonja Lumme, with Timo Turpeinen (1998)

Xysma (1997)

France

Raphaël [1]

Germany

Geschwister Jacob (1968, titled "Das glücklichste Mädchen der Welt")

Greece

Efi Thodi

Hungary

Zsuzsa Cserháti (titled "I love you baby")

Hong Kong

Leon Lai

Prudence Liew on album Why

Iceland

Ellý Vilhjálms (titled "Hvar ert þú?")

Italy

Mina

Leone di Lernia

Japan

Ayumi Hamasaki (live)

Hate Honey

Hello Kitty (Megumi Hayashibara)

Tomoko Kawase (Tommy february⁶)

Közi (live)

Yūji Oda

Fried Pride

Shō Sakurai of Arashi (live)

Ringo Shiina

Sowelu

Nobuteru Maeda (Nob Summer)

Triceratops

Ken Yokoyama

Zard

Seth (live)

Shohjo-tai

Netherlands

The Hermes House Band

Honeymoon Souvenirs\Ronnie Tober...CNR Music TCD 10223-2

Gerard Joling & Tatjana Simic

Norway

Anni-Frid Lyngstad (as Du Är Så Underbart Rar)

Morten Harket of a-ha

Pakistan

Noori a Pakistani Rock band (for a Honda commercial)

Spain

Los Manolos (Nainoná album, 2004)

Raphael, Alaska, Bob Gaudio (Raphael 50 años despues album, 2008)

Alba Molina (Spot Promoción Andalucía, 2009)

Dj Vertygo & Belen Ortiz

Sweden

Tingsek

Andreas Johnson

Taiwan

A-mei (A-mei in PUB, 2001)

Lollipop (Cantonese lyrics)

Joanna Wang

Turkey

Ömür Göksel

U.S.A.

Andy Williams

Vikki Carr

Bobby Darin

Diana Ross & the Supremes (Mary Wilson)

Engelbert Humperdinck

Barry Manilow

The Temptations

Eddy Arnold

Gloria Gaynor

Lauryn Hill

Daniel Amos, Christian rock band

Cake

Cardin

The Killers (live)

Next Phaze

David Osborne

Joan Osborne

Kim Ross

Save Ferris

O. C. Smith

The Spinto Band (live)

Suburban Legends (live)

Bumblefoot

Al Martino

Neil Sedaka

Jamie Kennedy (in the film Son of the Mask. The song is also included on the film's soundtrack)

Brook Benton

U.K.

Bad Manners, a 2 tone version on their album Can Can

John Barrowman for his 2008 album Music Music Music

Shirley Bassey

Petula Clark

Kiki Dee

Sheena Easton

Samantha Jones, 2 versions, appearing on her albums Call It Samantha (1968) and The Lady Likes It Latin (1976)

Pet Shop Boys, along with a cover of U2's Where the Streets Have No Name.

Manic Street Preachers, appearing on the album Lipstick Traces

Matt Monro

Muse, as part of Radio 1's Live Weekend and as a B-side

Jimmy Somerville

Cultural influence

Film

The song has been featured in several films, including The Deer Hunter and Conspiracy Theory, where it appears along with Lauryn Hill's cover of the song. At the end of the credits of Conspiracy Theory, another version is played, sung by a-ha lead vocalist Morten Harket. Julia Roberts sings along to the song while Mel Gibson watches her through binoculars from a taxi cab, he also sings along to it. The song was sung by Heath Ledger in 10 Things I Hate About You and by Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys. In a deleted scene of the 2002 live-action Scooby-Doo film, Velma, played by Linda Cardellini, sings this song with uncharacteristic fervor. The song is used in the Swedish TV-commercial for Tele2, performed by J-Lo. The song is at the end of an episode of the Hidden Palms. The song is included in the film Son of the Mask in a scene where Jamie Kennedy is dancing in a club. In the Filipino films You Are the One and You Got Me!, a version of the song is performed by Filipino actor Sam Milby. The song is featured at the very end of the Saturday Night Live spawned film Coneheads. It was featured in the 1999 film Drop Dead Gorgeous when beauty contestant Becky Leeman played by Denise Richards "sang" it during the talent portion of the Mount Rose American Teen Princess beauty pageant, and the TV series Queer as Folk

Television

• Vincent Chase is asked to sing the song at a Sweet 16 birthday party that he is paid to appear at on the television show Entourage.

• Kenan Thompson and Maya Rudolph sang a parody of the song in a Season 34 episode of Saturday Night Live as a tribute to cast member Amy Poehler, who was giving birth to a baby at the time.

• In one episode of Strictly Come Dancing John Barrowman, as a guest star, sings this song.

• In Curb Your Enthusiasm, Jeff's daughter sings the song but Larry David interrupts her as he finds her voice horrible.

Other media

This song is popularly used in advertising, such as for Freedom in Australia in the 1990s, by the Mexican government in the Programa Cultural de las Fronteras ads, and Valli's version was used in a TV commercial for Planters nuts that aired during Super Bowl XLII on February 3, 2008. It has also been adapted as a popular football chant for many players and teams, including Carlos Hernández Valverde of Melbourne Victory F.C.. It was used as the backing music for an introductory montage to the final day of the final Ashes Test 2005 on Channel 4 (their last day of broadcasting cricket). Fans of Fulham F.C. of the English Premier League sing it following a victory. The Wales International Football team also used it as the backing music in the 1994 World Cup Qualifying Stages on the advertisements of the games, therefore it has become the tune that supporters often chant in support of the team.