Connie's Country [Import]

Connie Francis | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 27, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal I.S.
• ASIN: B0000255OK
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,511 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #42 in Music > Imports > Broadway & Vocalists
  • #100 in Music > Imports > Pop

Track Listings

1. Bye Bye Love

2. I Fall to Pieces

3. I Don't Wanna Play House

4. Oh, Lonesome Me

5. I Can't Stop Loving You

6. Heartaches by the Number

7. Your Cheatin' Heart

8. Singing the Blues

9. I Walk the Line

10. Tennessee Waltz

11. Cold, Cold Heart

12. I Really Don't Want to Know

13. I'm a Fool to Care

14. Half as Much

15. Room Full of Roses

16. I Don't Want to Hurt Anymore

17. How's the World Treating You?

18. Peace in the Valley

Editorial Reviews

Budget price collection featuring 18 tracks including 'Bye Bye Love' & 'I Walk The Line.' Spectrum. 1999.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Connie's Country - Great country, August 22, 2005

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Scott J. Sedei - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Connie's Country (Audio CD)

I have always been a Connie Francis fan but was surprised to see "Connie's Country" on Amazon, I never knew she had a country album out. The CD is great, Connie's incredible voice and style give these country classics new life. Again, she crossed a music boundry/style and has improved on it. I actually like many of these re-recordings better than the originals. If you're a Connie Francis fan, this CD is a real treat.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars VERSATILE CONNIE, May 21, 2006

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Terry D. Robertson "Terry D. Robertson" (Asheville, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Connie's Country (Audio CD)

This proves Connie can sing anything. This CD covers her country releases but unfortunately is minus some of her finer moments during her foray into C&W such as "I'd Be A Legend In My Time and They'll Be No Teardrops Tonight". But this UK import is very good indeed and should be in everyone's collection. The sound quality is excellent and the care that was put into this project is evident. A welcome addition to the Connie Francis library.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Connie And Country Go Back To The Beginning, May 17, 2008

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AvidOldiesCollector (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Connie's Country (Audio CD)

The connection Connie had to Country goes right back to the start of her career. Indeed, her first hit single - minor though it was - involved a duet with C&W star Marvin Rainwater on The Majesty Of Love which made it to # 93 on the Billboard Pop Top 100 in December 1957 b/w You, My Darlin', You. And although that did not register on the Country charts, she did have Everybody's Somebody's Fool go to # 24 Country in the summer of 1960 (as well as # 1 Hot 100 and # 2 R&B) b/w Jealous Of You (# 19 Hot 100), and in early 1969 had The Wedding Cake reach # 33 Country as well as # 91 Hot 100, b/w Over Hill Underground. And her last hit single ever, which came in March 1983, was a Country one, There's Still A Few Good Love Songs Left In Me, # 84 Country b/w Let's Make It Love Tonight.

However, her 8th LP, which came out in November 1959, was titled Country & Western Golden Hits, containing: Singing The Blues; Tennessee Waltz; Young Love; Your Cheatin' Heart; Bye Bye Love; (There'll Be) Peace In The Valley (For Me); My Special Angel; Hearts Of Stone; Half As Much; Cold Cold Heart; Let Me Go, Lover; and Anytime. Three years later, in August 1962, MGM released Country Music Connie Style with these selections: I Really Don't Want To Know; Oh, Lonesome Me; I Fall To Pieces; Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You); I Walk The Line; He Thinks I Still Care; She'll Have To Go; I'm Movin' On; I Don't Hurt Anymore; I'm A Fool To Care; I Can't Stop Loving You; and Heartaches By The Number.

In November 1964 Connie Francis & Hank Williams, Jr. Sing Great Country Favorites hit the market with: Send Me The Pillow That You Dream On; Wolverton Mountain; Please Help Me I'm Falling (In Love With You); Singin' The Blues; Walk On By; If You've Got The Money, I've Got The Time; Mule Skinner Blues; Making Believe; Blue Blue Day; No Letter Today; Bye Bye Love; and Wabash Cannonball. Her last Country-themed album, My Heart Cries For You, then came out in July 1967 with: Lonely Again; Don't Touch Me; Four Walls; There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight; The Wayward Wind; How's The World Treating You?; My Heart Cries For You; I'll Be A Legend In My Time; I Wish I Had A Wooden Heart; Room Full Of Roses; and Anytime.

Several songs were, as you will notice, repeated in some of the albums, and this one from Polygram UK is more or less an amalgam of the contents of those four LPs with excellent sound reproduction. Well worth the price.