The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore - Stereo Version

This was written by the prolific songwriters Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio and produced by Crewe. The pair wrote many of the hits for The Four Seasons (Gaudio was a member of the group), and composed this one for lead singer Frankie Valli as a solo release. Valli's version was issued in 1965 and only managed a meager chart placement of #128, despite the phenomenal success of The Four Seasons. The next year, The Walker Brothers covered the song using an arrangement that clearly resembled Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound" technique. This version was a huge hit, going to #1 in the UK and making #13 in America.

This is a very despondent song about a hopeless feeling that comes with the loss of love. In our interview with Bob Gaudio, he explained: "I remember it was a rainy day and Bob Crewe and I were in his office, which was in the Atlantic Records building in the Lincoln Center area of New York, and it started to come together. It was a gloomy day and we were both a little depressed. And out it came."

Cher covered this song, releasing it as a single in 1995 and including it on her 1996 album It's a Man's World. Her version reached #26 UK and was featured on "The Post-Modern Prometheus" episode of The X-Files in 1997, which concludes with the main characters attending a Cher concert.