Opus 17 (Don't You Worry 'bout Me)

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"Opus 17 (Don't You Worry 'bout Me)"
Opus 17 (Don't You Worry 'bout Me) - The Four Seasons.jpg
Single by The Four Seasons
from the album 2nd Vault of Gold Hits
B-side"Beggar's Parade (from the album Workin' My Way Back to You and More Great New Hits)"
ReleasedMay 1966
GenreRock
Length2:32
LabelPhilips
Songwriter(s)Sandy Linzer-Denny Randell
Producer(s)Bob Crewe
The Four Seasons singles chronology
"Peanuts"
(1966) 		"Opus 17 (Don't You Worry 'bout Me)"
(1966) 		"On The Good Ship Lollipop"
(1966)

"Opus 17 (Don't You Worry 'bout Me)" is a song composed by Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell and recorded by The Four Seasons in 1966 for their album Working My Way Back to You.

Background[]

"Opus 17" was the first hit with new full-time bassist/bass vocalist Joe Long. The title meant that this was the 17th single released by the Four Seasons.

As was the case with another Linzer-Randell contribution to the Four Seasons catalog, "Let's Hang On!", "Opus 17" features a rhythmic vocal hook within each verse, but, unlike in most Four Seasons singles, falsetto singing is muted except in the Coda section by Frankie Valli (songs without falsetto were usually released as Valli solo numbers in this era). The song begins in F-sharp major, and goes up by half scale, until it reaches the coda in B major.

Billboard praised the "excellent vocal and instrumental production."[1]

Chart history[]

The song was released as the official follow-up to the title song of the album and reached the #13 position on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.[2]

Chart (1966) Peak
position
Canada RPM Top Singles[3] 33
New Zealand (Listener)[4] 9
South Africa (Springbok)[5] 12
UK[6] 20
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[7] 13
U.S. Cash Box Top 100[8] 9

References[]

  1. ^ "Spotlight Singles" (PDF). Billboard. May 14, 1966. p. 18. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits: Eighth Edition. Record Research. p. 297.
  3. ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1966-06-27. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  4. ^ Flavour of New Zealand, 26 August 1966
  5. ^ "SA Charts 1965–March 1989". Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  6. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 210. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  7. ^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  8. ^ Cash Box Top 100 Singles, , 1966


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