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Best Of Frank Ifield, The

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I Remember You is my all time favorite song. I just bought the CD, and was delighted to hear so many great classic songs on one CD. Frank Ifield is extremely versatile. An English Australian singing what appears to be American Country. I will wear this one out!

One big hit in America "I Remember You", and that is more then enough for anyone to want this CD. Frank Ifield was a little before the Beatles so he just had his talent to ride on not the whole British Invasion.... Sounds like early American Country music. Well worth a listen.

I enjoyed listening to Frank Ifield songs. The song " I Remember You " was my favorite and the main reason I ordered the CD. Frank Ifield has a great singing voice!

Had thought about Frank Ifield often thru the years. Finally decided to see if I could find a recording - very happy I did.

I was so delighted to find this album still available. Frank Ifield's sound was so unique. An Englishman from Australia, his music was very special to me from the very first time I heard him sing "I Remember You." Every cut on this album rings the bell! His music was seldom played in the US, but I heard it whenever I visited my Mom at her home up near the Canadian border. From then on, I was a Frank Ifield fan!

Am really enjoying this long forgotten wonderful voice. Takes me right back to the good old days! I was so glad it was available!

Jerry

This is yet one more example - among many - of a "Best Of" compilation that leaves off far too many legitimate hits to be given a rating higher than 3 stars.

Born on November 30, 1936 in Coventry, Ifielde was raised in Australia before returning to the U.K. at age 23. His biggest hit by far, a # 1 in the U.K. and distributed on this side of the Atlantic by Vee-Jay, was I Remember You which peaked at # 1 Adult Contemporary (AC) and # 5 Billboard Hot 100 in October 1962 b/w I Listen To My Heart (not included here). What sold it more than anything else was the falsetto, which he used on all of his subsequent discs, even to the point of emulating the old Country star Elton Britt by breaking into a yodel here and there.

He followed that with the old Hank Williams' hit, Lovesick Blues, another # 1 in the U.K. but just missing the Top 40 here, topping off at # 44 Hot 100 in January 1963 b/w Anytime (also omitted). That October he was back with another oldie, I'm Confessin' (That I Love You), which again reached # 1 U.K. and # 16 AC/# 58 Hot 100 here b/w Waltzing Matilda. Both sides are missing from this compilation, as are both sides of his last North American charter. Please, a hit for Bing Crosby in 1932, leveled off here at # 71 Hot 100 in January 1964 b/w Mule Train. Also left off is another British # 1, a cover of the Gogi Grant hit The Wayward Wind.

While the man could certainly carry a nice tune, it seems his stage presence was wooden, as was his acting career which began -and ended - in 1965 with the Australian film Up Jumped A Swagman.

Wait for someone to come up with a definitive collection of all his hits, and if you really want I Remember You, I suggest you search it out on a multi-artist compilation.

Not really a review but I am looking for Frank Ifields Tale of Two Cities Nashville-London Prodiced inNashville Tenn. around 1962. Thanks whatever you can do.