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Connie Francis - Souvenirs

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Artist: Connie Francis
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 1996-10-22
Music Label: Polygram Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Didn't I Love You Enough?
  2. Freddy
  3. Oh, Please, Make Him Jealous
  4. Goody Goodbye
  5. Are You Satisfied?
  6. My Treasure
  7. My First Real Love
  8. Believe In Me (Credimi)
  9. Send For My Baby
  10. Forgetting
  11. My Sailor Boy
  12. I Never Had A Sweetheart
  13. Little Blue Wren
  14. No Other One
  15. Eighteen
  16. The Majesty Of Love
  17. Who's Sorry Now?
  18. I'm Sorry I Made You Cry
  19. Stupid Cupid
  20. Carolina Moon
  21. Fallin'
  22. I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You)
  23. Happy Days And Lonely Nights
  24. My Happiness
  25. Never Before
  26. You Always Hurt The One You Love
  27. If I Didn't Care
  28. Lipstick On Your Collar
  29. Frankie
  30. You're Gonna Miss Me
  31. Plenty Good Lovin'
Music CD 2
  1. Among My Souvenirs
  2. God Bless America
  3. Mama
  4. Teddy
  5. Valentino
  6. Everybody's Somebody's Fool
  7. Jealous Of You (Tango Della Gelosia)
  8. Robot Man
  9. My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own
  10. Malaguena
  11. Many Tears Ago
  12. Senza Mamma E Nnammurata
  13. Where The Boys Are
  14. Swanee
  15. No One
  16. Baby Roo
  17. Breakin' In A Brand New Broken Heart
  18. Someone Else's Boy
  19. Together
  20. Too Many Rules
  21. Pretty Little Baby
  22. La Paloma
  23. Never On Sunday
  24. He's My Dreamboat
  25. Hollywood
  26. When The Boy In Your Arms (Is The Boy In Your Heart)
  27. Baby's First Christmas
  28. Don't Break The Heart That Loves You
  29. Second Hand Love
Music CD 3
  1. Vacation
  2. The Biggest Sin Of All
  3. I Was Such A Fool (To Fall In Love With You)
  4. He Thinks I Still Care
  5. I'm Gonna Be Warm This Winter
  6. Al Di La
  7. Follow The Boys
  8. Waiting For Billy
  9. If My Pillow Could Talk
  10. Lollipop Lips
  11. Drownin' My Sorrows
  12. Mala Femmena (Evil Woman)
  13. Your Other Love
  14. Whatever Happened To Rosemarie
  15. In The Summer Of His Years
  16. Blue Winter
  17. Souvenirs
  18. You Know You Don't Want Me
  19. Be Anything (But Be Mine)
  20. Looking For Love
  21. Don't Ever Leave Me
  22. We Have Something More (Than A Summer Love)
  23. Whose Heart Are You Breaking Tonight?
  24. For Mama (La Mamma)
  25. Wishing It Was You
  26. You're Mine (Just When You're Lonely)
  27. My Child
  28. Forget Domani
  29. Roundabout
  30. Bossa Nova Hand Dance (Deixa Isso Pra La)
Music CD 4
  1. Jealous Heart
  2. When The Boys Meet The Girls
  3. Exodus/Havah Negilah (Dance Everyone Dance)
  4. Love Is Me, Love Is You
  5. I'd Let You Break My Heart All Over Again
  6. It's A Different World
  7. Somewhere, My Love
  8. A Letter From A Soldier (Dear Mama)
  9. A Nurse In The U.S. Army Corps
  10. So Nice (Summer Samba) (Samba Do Verao)
  11. All The Love In The World (Et Si C'etait Vrai)
  12. Spanish Nights And You (Noches Espanolas Y Tu)
  13. Games That Lovers Play
  14. Another Page
  15. Souvenir D'italie
  16. Time Alone Will Tell (Non Pensare A Me)
  17. Born Free
  18. My Heart Cries For You
  19. Lonely Again
  20. My World Is Slipping Away
  21. Why Say Goodbye (A Comme Amour)
  22. Addio, Mi 'Amore
  23. Somebody Else Is Taking My Place
  24. Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?
  25. I Don't Wanna Play House
  26. The Wedding Cake
  27. Gone Like The Wind
  28. Zingara (Gypsy)

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Free Music Review: THE Most Glaring Absentee From The R&R Hall Of Fame
Hit: 5 Stars

Back at the dawn of R&R, circa 1955, the legendary originals began to be heard on mainstream radio after several years of relative obscurity insofar as a national audience was concerned. The King, of course, was the catalyst, and when Elvis Presley broke down the doors R&R was here to stay. Soon the unique sounds of Bill Haley & His Comets, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Little Richard joined Presley's on most radio stations, followed in short order by Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, and The Everly Brothers. All had one thing in common. They were all male.

Indeed, for the first few years following the advent of R&R, there were precious few female vocalists able to hold their own on the charts, and to share air time, jukebox play, and record sales with those pioneers. Brenda Lee was one. So was Ruth Brown, and who can forget LaVern Baker. Right there with them, hit for hit, was Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero, better known as Connie Francis. But whereas those other three great ladies of R&R, as well as every one of the male vocalists just mentioned, are in the R&R Hall Of Fame, Connie is consistently ignored. Which is just plain ludicrous.

I loved the music of those three as well as later inductees such as Dusty Springfield and Patti Smith, and in no way would I ever attempt to dispute their justified recognition. But when you compare their songs to Connie's there is simply no way you can say they belong but she does not.

The lady had 56 Pop Top/Hot 100 hits from 1957 to 1969 (all of them here along with 10 of the uncharted B-sides and four that made the "Bubble Under" charts after their introduction in 1959), saw 8 cross over to the R&B charts, had 2 Country cross-overs and one more that made only those charts (including her last registered hit, There's Still A Few Good Love Songs Left In Me on Polydor in the spring of 1983 - and sadly omitted here). Also, in addition to scoring 24 Adult Contemporary (Easy Listening) cross-overs from their inception in late 1961, she added another 5 that made those charts only and 2 more that hit the Hot 100 "Bubble Under" listings. And, with one exception, that being her last such hit, the # 40 I'm Me Again in early 1981 on MGM, all are here, including my personal favourite, My World Is Slipping Away (# 35 AC in February 1968).

Yes, many of her songs were love ballads that could not be described as R&R in any way, shape or form. But that also applied to those other female inductees as well. On the other hand, Connie probably had more legitimate R&R hits than any of them! Keeping in mind that you can only judge the music in the context of its time, these hits of hers were all R&R in every sense of the word AT THAT TIME: Stupid Cupid (# 14 in 1958); Fallin' (# 30 in 1958); Lipstick On Your Collar (# 5 Pop/# 10 R&B in 1959); Plenty Good Lovin' (# 69 in 1959); Everybody's Somebody's Fool (# 1 Pop/# 2 R&B in 1960); My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own (# 1 Pop/# 11 R&B in 1960); Many Tears Ago (# 7 in 1960); Breakin' In A Brand New Broken Heart (# 7 in 1961); (He's My) Dreamboat (# 14 in 1961); Vacation (# 9 in 1962); and many more. All of which are in this wonderful compilation, as already related in some of the other fine reviews.

Along the way, and always with MGM, she was backed by some of the best musical directors in the business: Stan Applebaum, Sid Bass, Artie Butler, Don Costa, Morty Craft, Ray Ellis, Tony Hatch, Leroy Holmes, Bill Justis, Gus Levene, Guilio Libano, Joe Lipman, Alan Lorber, Marty Manning, Bill McElhiney, Billy Mure, Claus Ogerman, Tony Osborne, Cliff Parman, Bill Ramal, David Rose, Joe Sherman, and Shelby Singleton.

All of this is detailed within the superb packaging, which comes in book form measuring 5" x 10" (accounting for the distortion in the picture shown here), with liner notes comprising an essay by Don Charles, and track-by-track annotations by Charles, Bill Levinson and Patrick Niglio, a complete discography of the contents, a listing of all her LPs and their contents, complete with album covers, and some great, candid shots of Connie at various stages of her illustrious career, including one in a leopard-skin bathing suit that will take your breath away.

This is the very best of a terrific entertainer who overcame some very difficult times in her life to rank right up there with the giants in the Golden Age of R&R, and who should be honoured at the very next opportunity by the R&R Hall Of Fame. If she isn't, shame on them.
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