Beggin'

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“Beggin”
Single by The Four Seasons from the album New Gold Hits
B-side	Dody
Released	February 1967
Format	7"
Genre	Rock
Length	2:48
Label	Philips
Writer(s)	Bob Gaudio-Peggy Farina
Producer	Bob Crewe
The Four Seasons singles chronology
Tell It to the Rain (1966) Beggin' (1967) C'mon Marianne (1967)

“Beggin”
Single by Madcon from the album So Dark The Con Of Man
Released	October 2007
Format	CD, Digital Download
Genre	Hip-Hop/Rap
Length	3:38
Label	BonnierAmigo
Writer(s)	Bob Gaudio-Peggy Farina
Producer	3Elementz
Madcon singles chronology
? Beggin' (2007) Back On The Road (2008)

"Beggin'" is the title of a song composed by Bob Gaudio and Peggy Farina and popularized by The Four Seasons in 1967. The second single from the group's New Gold Hits album was produced by Bob Crewe, it reached the #16 position on the Billboard Hot 100 charts as lead singer Frankie Valli's "solo" recording output (with Four Seasons participation) was beginning to take more and more of the group's energy (his biggest "solo" hit of the 1960s, "Can't Take My Eyes Off You", was released in May, only three weeks before the Four Seasons' last Top Ten hit of the decade, "C'mon Marianne"). The Four Seasons' version did not chart in the United Kingdom, where Timebox had a minor hit with the song instead.

In 2007, French musician Pilooski, re-edited and released his version of the song on the 2nd of June. This version reached #32 in the UK and #1 on the UK Dance Chart. It's the first single of the album "Beggin' The Ultimate Collection". The Pilooski re-edit, does not include any new instrumentation or vocals but is purely a manipulation of the original recording made by The Four Seasons, using echo and phase-polarisation.

The same year the Norwegian hip hop band Madcon released their version of the song. This version got very popular and reached the #1 position of the Norwegian VG Music Charts.[1] Madcons version of the song is a total re-recording, all instruments are performed by production-team 3Elementz, and all vocals by Madcon. The song has reached 6 times Norwegian platinum sales, the highest selling song in Norway in 2007, and has received the "hit of the year" spellemann-price(Norwegian Grammy-like award). The song is also popular in Germany, reaching there the Top 10.

Preceded by "Hell If I" by Alejandro Fuentes	Norwegian VG-lista number-one single 7 November 2007 – 26 December 2007	Succeeded by "Days Go By" by Glenn Lyse
Preceded by "Days Go By" by Glenn Lyse	Norwegian VG-lista number-one single (second run) 2 January 2008 – 6 February 2008	Succeeded by "Bleeding Love" by Leona Lewis