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Rock'n Roll Million Sellers

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Connie Francis sings these rock and roll best sellers with great gusto and style. Listening to her sing these tunes is pure magic. She is the Queen of Pop Music.

I have owned this CD for years and the album for more years! I have throughly enjoyed this music compilation. I love the way Connie can take someone's songs and really make them sound better. I simply love her voice on any song she sings. I have been a fan since 1962 and still listen to at least one of her songs everyday. She is the greatest and the United Nations of songs with all her foreign language recordings. The world is able to hear and understand beautiful music.

Connie had already made an indelible mark in the U.S. and abroad with her chart toppers. Her Rock & Roll Million Sellers effort just reinforced her rightful place as the queen of rock and pop. While the songs except for Lipstick were hits by other singers, Connie's distinctive vocal imprint gave the listeners an idea of how the songs were MEANT to be sung. Connie Rocks on this one and if it is not in your collection you owe it to yourself to get it.

"Rock 'N' Roll Million Sellers" is just another example of the many facets of Connie's talents. Whether it's the rockin "Heartbreak Hotel", her own "Lipstick On Your Collar" or the classic "Silhouettes" Connie adds something to each song that makes them her own. If she was the first in the recording studio this album would have been titled "Connie's Rock 'N' Roll Million Sellers.

Its not entirely clear what exactly is the acheievement of this rather tepid colletion of, at the time, "hit" rock ballads. Certainly Connie Francis displays all the gusto one expects from her recordings, but this album lacks a conviction which exists with most of her other themed albums. Francis tackles each song with the best of intentions, but most of the tracks display nothing new in interpretation. With few excepetions, the sum of the parts come off bland and uninviting for more than a few repeat spins. Francis' classic "Lipstick on Your Collar" seems misplaced on this collection of forgettable tracks. For Francis interpretation at their early best, check out the re-issued MY THANKS TO YOU or WHO'S SORRY NOW.

Connie was never much of a rock'n'roller ("Lipstick On Your Collar"?), so it's puzzling why they chose to release this entirely forgettable collection she made of rock and roll songs. Her version of "Heartbreak Hotel" is needless.