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Connie's Country

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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.

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.

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.

What a wonderful discovery, pairing the incomparable Connie Francis with simple but emotionally potent early country lyrics. An easy five stars. The arrangements on this collection range from brilliant to tacky. Some tracks will test your tolerance of "kitsch," although never rising to the level of Connie Stevens' over-the-top Hank Williams album. Superb sound quality. Kudos to the sound engineer. At Amazon Marketplace prices, it's a crime not to purchase and own this disc. My wife and I argued for 15 minutes about whose "I Fall to Pieces" is better, Connie's or Patsy's. Of course I was just being difficult (Patsy *owns* that song), but for it to be even a close call is about the highest compliment I can think of for such a decidedly un-country performer as Connie Francis.

Although Celine Dion nearly does with a couple of her numbers there is no female singer who can "cry" a tune like Connie Francis ! Her voice never ever fails to brings home to us as listeners' a true love, lost, unrequited or just never ever found. One indeed wonders to what heights this amazing performer could have taken her career if her vicious rape in a hotel room never happened. To the diva of my youth and the diva of my life time, long may your voice be heard on radios' gaga-gaga . . .

This cd, came in no good quality of sound. To much echo and its no good to linten to.

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A good listen. Connie Francis was a favorite of my mother while I was growing up. Many of the songs on this CD are familiar favorites. Connie's voice with clarity and emotion brings heartache and hope alive for the listener.

connie could do it all, no matter the type of music!! truly a talent to be admired! love her, and i alway will!!

I'm never surprised by anything Connie Francis does. In this album she takes on the greats from Patsy Cline to Hank Williams and does not disappoint. Well worth the purchase for any Connie Francis and Country fan.