- Connie Francis Sings Italian Favorites
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Connie Francis sings Italian Favorites Studio album by Connie Francis Released November 1959 Recorded August 22, 1959
August 25 - 27, 1959Genre Pop Label MGM Records
E-3791 (mono)/SE-3791 (stereo)Producer Danny Davis Connie Francis chronology My Thanks To You (1959) Connie Francis sings Italian Favorites (1959) Christmas In My Heart (1959) Singles from Connie Francis sings Italian Favorites - "Mama"
Released: February 1960
Connie Francis sings Italian Favorites is a studio album recorded by U. S. Entertainer Connie Francis.
The album consists of traditional Italian and Neapolitan songs (e. g. Santa Lucia) as well as then-current contemporay songs like Volare (Nel blu dipinto di blu) or Piove which both had risen to international fame after being Italy's entries to the Eurovision Song Contests of 1958 and 1959.
Connie Francis sings Italian Favorites was recorded following a suggestion from Francis' father, George Franconero, sr., who played an active part in directing Francis' career. He had realized that Francis' would have to make a timely transition from the youth-oriented Rock 'n' Roll music to adult contemporary music if she wanted to pursue a successful longterm career in music.[1]
To make the album appealing to both Italian immigrants as well as listeners not familiar with Romanic languages, Francis sang most of the songs bilingual in either Italian/English or Neapolitan/English. Only Volare and Piove are sung entirely in Italian whilst Torna a Surriento is sung entirely in Neapolitan. Francis, who didn't learn to speak Italian and Neapolitan fluently until 1962, received assistance from a Berlitz teacher to achieve the correct pronunciation of the lyrics' Italian and Neapolitan lines.[2]
The album was recorded between August 22 and 27, 1959, at E.M.I.'s famous Abbey Road Studios in London[3] under the musical direction of Tony Osborne[4] and was released in November 1959. Soon afterwards it entered the album charts where it remained for 81 weeks, peaking at # 4. It remains to this day as Francis' most successful album release.[5]
Following the success of Connie Francis sings Italian Favorites, Francis recorded seven more albums of "Favorites" between 1960 and 1964, including Jewish, German and Irish Favorites, among others.
Contents
Track listing
Side A
# Title Songwriter Length 1. "Comm' e bella a stagione" Gigi Pisano, Rodolfo Falvo, George Brown 1.51 2. "Anema e core" Salvatore d'Esposito, Domenico Titomalino, Curtis Mann, Harry Akst 3.03 3. "Arrivederci Roma" Renato Rascel, Pietro Garinei, Sandro Giovannini, Carl Sigman 2.56 4. "Solo tu (You alone)" Robert Allen, Al Stillman 2.57 5. "Volare" Domenico Modugno, Franco Migliacci 3.19 6. "Non dimenticar" Gino Redi, Michele Galdieri, Shelly Dobbins 3.16 7. "Toward the End of the Day (Alla fine dell' di)" Jeffrey Stillman 3.16 Side B
# Title Songwriter Length 1. "Piove" Domenico Modugno 2.52 2. "Mama" Bruno Cherubini, Harold Barlow, Phil Brito 3.55 3. "Do You Love Me Like You Kiss Me (Scapricciatiello)" Pacifico Vento, Ferdinando Albano 2.39 4. "I Have But One Heart (O' Marenariello)" Gennaro Ottaviano, Salvatore Gambardella, Johnny Farrow, Marty Symes 3.33 5. "'O sole mio (There's No Tomorrow)" Eduardo di Capua, Giovanni Capurro 2.56 6. "Santa Lucia" traditional, transcription by Teodoro Cottrau 3.12 7. "Torna a Surriento (Come back to Sorrento)" Ernesto De Curtis, Giambattista De Curtis 2.49 Not included songs from the sessions
# Title Songwriter Length Remark 1. "Volare" Domenico Modugno, Franco Migliacci unknown alternate version with different arrangement and tempo, unreleased to this day References
- ^ Connie Francis: Who's sorry now, St. Martin's Press, London 1984
- ^ as above
- ^ Ron Roberts: Connie Francis Discography 1955 – 1975
- ^ William Ruhlmann: Connie Francis 1955 – 1959, supplement to 5 CD Boxed Set White Sox, Pink Lipstick… and Stupid Cupid, Bear Family Records BCD 16 616 EI, Hambergen (Germany) 1993
- ^ Connie Francis: Souvenirs, Booklet of 4-CD-Box, Polydor 1996, Cat.-No. 314 533 382-2
External links
U. S. Albums Who's Sorry Now? • The Exciting Connie Francis • My Thanks To You • Connie Francis sings Italian Favorites • Christmas In My Heart • Connie's Greatest Hits • Rock 'n' Roll Million Sellers • Country & Western - Golden Hits • Connie Francis sings Fun Songs For Children • One For The Boys • Connie Francis sings Spanish And Latin American Favorites • Connie Francis sings Jewish Favorites • Songs to a Swinging Band • More Greatest Hits • Connie Francis sings "Never on Sunday" • Connie Francis sings Folk Song Favorites • Connie Francis sings Irish Favorites • Connie Francis sings Modern Italian Hits • Connie Francis sings Award Winning Motion Picture Hits • Greatest American Waltzes • In The Summer Of His Years • Connie Francis sings German Favorites • Connie Francis and Hank Williams, Jr. sing Great Country Favorites • Movie Greats Of The 60s • Connie's Christmas • Connie Francis and The Kids Next Door • Love, Italian Style • Happiness - Connie Francis On Broadway Today • Grandes Exitos del Cine de los Años 60 • Connie & Clyde – Hit Songs of the 30s • Connie Francis sings Bacharach & David • Connie Francis sings The Songs of Les ReedInternational Albums Connie Francis en El Patio • Melodien, die die Welt erobern • Somewhere, My LoveU. S. Singles Who's Sorry Now • Stupid Cupid/Carolina Moon • Fallin'/Happy Days and Lonely Nights • I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You) • My Happiness • You Always Hurt the One You Love • If I Didn't Care • Lipstick on Your Collar • Among My Souvenirs/God Bless America • Mama • Everybody's Somebody's Fool • My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own/Malagueña • Breakin' in a Brand New Broken Heart/Someone Else's Boy • Together • When the Boy in Your Arms (Is the Boy in Your Heart) • Don't Break the Heart That Loves You • Vacation • He Thinks I Still Care • I'm Gonna Be Warm This Winter/Al di là • If My Pillow Could Talk • In the Summer of His Years • Be Anything (but Be Mine) • Jealous Heart • So Nice (Summer Samba) • My Heart Cries for You • Lonely Again • I Don't Wanna Play HouseInternational Singles Die Liebe ist ein seltsames Spiel • Ich komm' nie mehr von dir los • Wenn ich träume • Schöner fremder Mann • Einmal komm' ich wieder • Eine Insel für zwei • Lili Marleen • Jamais • Tu' mir nicht weh • Wenn du gehst • Ho bisogno di vedertiNotable Songs Filmography Where the Boys Are • Follow the Boys • Looking for Love • When the Boys Meet the GirlsRelated topics Categories:- Connie Francis albums
- 1959 albums
- Italian-language albums
- MGM Records albums
- Albums produced by Danny Davis (country musician)
- "Mama"
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