PUT AWAY THE BOOKS, WE'RE OUT OF SCHOOLTHE WEATHER'S WARM BUT WE'LL PLAY IT COOLWE'RE ON VACATION HAVING LOTS OF FUNV-A-C-A-T-I-O-N IN THE SUMMER SUN
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>"Those who missed out on the late Fifties will ask themselves 'What's the only thing less funky than a Connie Francis movie?' The answer in all its depressing splendor can found on this compilation."
Fact is that Connie was the #1 selling female singer of all time until Madonna broke her record.
>>129485894alright, not funny, dude.
>>129486039And you thought Cuckgau was bad.
>>129486055she was never critically accepted or appreciated. why that is is not entirely clear, though i have a few hunches as to why that was.
>>129486096I think too girly and the fact that she could sing in almost any style worked against her; it made her look rootless and without a defined "sound." While she had a fine voice, it also lacked a really distinctive character to it the way eg. Brenda Lee's did.
Francis recorded way too fucking much because her psycho asshole dad whipped her into it.
>>129485894That incident aside, she also had a botched operation to remove a vocal nodule that made her unable to sing for almost a decade.
>>129485860Cuckgau had a weird beef with this song and IDK why.
>>129486039>>129486198you're missing a bit of the point. they were there when Francis was on TV and the radio basically nonstop and probably got very very burned out on her.
>>129486055Italian/Jewish.... I'm sure her success was purely organic.
>>129486241she was not a Jew though?
>>129486055>Fact is that Connie was the #1 selling female singer of all time until Madonna broke her recordThe chart dominance her and Brenda had for a while was because the 60s was kind of thin on female pop talent compared to the 50s. If anything the 60s was more of a decade for male pop talent.
>>129486184When she appeared on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts her dad made her play the accordion so dudes wouldn't be eyeballing her tits.
she had a #2 hit in Germany as late as 1992 yet couldn't get arrested in America by the time the 60s were done
>>129486422Euros always eat up the discarded scraps from Anglo pop music we don't want anymore eg. the Bee Gees were huge over there in the 80s-90s.
>>129486422Every early 60s powerhouse had declined by the tail end of the decade. Many were still putting out good music but they lost their cool factor and no longer got label support or radio play.
>>129486198It's one of Connie's more puerile songs. btw when "Pretty Little Baby" became a Tik Tok hit she didn't even remember that song existed because it was an obscure B-side/album track she completely forgot about. when you have a catalog that big and probably haven't heard the song in 60 years you tend to let it slip your mind.
>>129486615The song was from the Second Hand Love And Other Hits LP. Yes it was not a single.
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