by William Ruhlmann
&Big Girls Don't Cry& had already appeared on the Four Seasons' previous Sherry album, but when it became their second number one hit, they didn't hesitate to build a new album around it. As with Sherry, Big Girls Don't Cry and Twelve Others is filled out largely with cover songs, including a version of the Rays' and the Diamonds' 1957 hit &Silhouettes& (co-written by the Four Seasons producer Bob Crewe), Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers' &Why Do Fools Fall in Love,& and the Skyliners' &Since I Don't Have You.& Those songs looked back at the Four Seasons' antecedents, but songs like &My Sugar& and their next number one, &Walk Like a Man,& written by Crewe and Bob Gaudio, looked forward. (After the Four Seasons left Vee Jay Records, the label would release their covers of the Shepherd Sisters' &Alone (Why Must I Be Alone)& and the McGuire Sisters' &Sincerely& from this album as singles and score chart hits with them in 1964.)