Nobody came to Frankie Valli’s wedding over the summer, which was exactly how the 89-year-old singer wanted it. “Oh, it was terrific,” he recalls of the very private ceremony at Las Vegas’ Westgate Hotel, where Valli and his fourth wife, Jackie Jacobs, tied the knot in June, more than half a century after he set out toward becoming one of the 1960s’ most reliable pop hitmakers as the falsetto-voiced frontman of the Four Seasons.

“We both have families from back east, and afterward everybody said, ‘Why didn’t you tell us? We wanted to come!’” He laughs. “They probably all would have, as long as I paid for the plane trip and the rooms.”