My Thanks to You

My Thanks to You
My Thanks To You
Studio album by Connie Francis
Released August 1959
Recorded March 4, 5, and 6, 1959
Genre Pop
Label MGM Records
E-3776 (mono)/SE-3776 (stereo)
Producer Arnold Maxin, Norman Newell
Connie Francis chronology
The Exciting Connie Francis (1959) My Thanks To You (1959) Connie Francis sings Italian Favorites (1959)

My Thanks To You is a studio album recorded by US Entertainer Connie Francis. The album features songs which had been popular on both sides of the Atlantic between the 1920s and the 1940s. It was recorded March 4–6, 1959 at E.M.I.'s famous Abbey Road Studios in London.

During the sessions, Francis recorded two versions of the song I'll Close My Eyes, written by Billy Reid and Buddy Kaye. Both recordings share the same orchestral arrangement but different sets of lyrics, which are referred to as "American version" and "British version" for distinction. The British version was included on the album while the American Version remained unreleased until 1993.[1]

Geoff Love and Tony Osborne, who both also appeared as conductors, provided arrangements in the style of British Light Music to make the album more appealing especially to British audiences who had rewarded Francis with # 1 chart notations for Who's Sorry Now? and Stupid Cupid in 1958, making her even more successful of the European side of the Atlantic than on the American where both songs had peaked on # 4 and # 16 respectively.

But even with sophisticated singles such as My Happiness (a US # 2 and a UK # 4 for her in early 1959), Connie Francis was still considered too much of a rock 'n' roll singer to be also accepted as a performer of adult contemporary material, hence the albums failed to make an impression on the charts.

The album was re-packaged with a new cover design and re-released in March 1962.[2]

Contents

Track listing

Side A

# Title Songwriter Length
1. "My Thanks To You" Noel Gray, Norman Newell 3.32
2. "The Bells of St. Mary's" A. Emmett Adams, Douglas Furber 2.30
3. "A Garden in the Rain" Carroll Gibbons, James Dyrenforth 3.08
4. "Try a Little Tenderness" Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly, Harry M. Woods 3.50
5. "A Tree in the Meadow" Billy Reid 3.27
6. "Now Is the Hour" Maewa Kaihau, Clement Scott, Dorothy Stewart 2.35

Side B

# Title Songwriter Length
1. "I'll Close My Eyes" (British Version) Billy Reid, Buddy Kaye 3.36
2. "The Very Thought of You" Ray Noble 3.47
3. "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" Eric Maschwitz, Jack Strahey 4.20
4. "Cruising Down the River" Neil Tollerton, Eily Bendell 2.24
5. "The Gypsy" Billy Reid 3.00
6. "Goodnight, Sweetheart" Ray Nobel, Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly, Rudy Vallée 3.16

Not included songs from the sessions

# Title Songwriter Length Remark
1. "I'll Close My Eyes" (American Version) Billy Reid, Buddy Kaye 3.38 unreleased until 1993


References

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ Connie Francis: Souvenirs, Booklet of 4-CD-Box, Polydor 1996, Cat.-No. 314 533 382-2

External links

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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 Reed
International Albums
U. 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 House
International 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
Notable Songs
Filmography
Where the Boys Are  • Follow the Boys  • Looking for Love  • When the Boys Meet the Girls
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Wikipedia book Book:Connie Francis'

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