Connie Rocks

by Connie Francis

Overview

Another wild and wooly volume in its Rocks series, this Connie Francis set is packed to the gills with hits, B-sides and obscurities with 33 cuts in all! From her stellar reading of Conway Twitty's "It's Only Make Believe," the sultry "Fallin'," an alternate version of the country-rockabilly tune "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own," and the horn-driven "Plenty Good Lovin'." As is usual for Bear Family, the sound is great, there are terrific liner notes, and what's best of all, it's all on a single disc. Connie Rocks offers a view of early rock & roll from one of its most seminal, if not always acknowledged, female vocalists and performers. Just snag it. ~ Thom Jurek

Product Details

Release Date:	11/25/2003
Label:	Bear Family Records
UPC:	4000127163189
Rank:	88409

Tracks

1. Robot Man
2. Everybody's Somebody's Fool
3. Send For My Baby
4. Eighteen
5. Stupid Cupid
6. Happy Days and Lonely Nights
7. Who's Sorry Now
8. Fallin'
9. My Heart Has a Mind of It's Own-Version 3
10. Lipstick on Your Collar
11. You're Gonna Miss Me
12. Frankie
13. Carolina Moon
14. Where the Boys Are
15. Breakin' in a Brand New Broken Heart
16. When the Boy in Your Arms (Is the Boy in Your He
17. I Hear You Knockin'
18. Tweedle Dee
19. It's Only Make Believe
20. Many Tears Ago
21. Plenty Good Lovin'
22. My Happiness
23. The Tiger and the Mouse
24. Hearts of Stone
25. Among the Souvenirs
26. Baby Roo
27. It Would Still Be Worth It
28. Someone Elses's Boy
29. Too Many Rules
30. Telephone Lover
31. I Won't Be Home to You
32. My Real Happiness
33. Mister Twister

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Connie Francis   Primary Artist,Vocals
Cliff Parman   Conductor
Allan Reuss   Guitar
Alvin Stoller   Drums
Edgar Lustgarten   Cello
Sid Bass   Conductor
Victor Arno   Violin
Israel Baker   Violin
Milton Thomas   Viola
Walter Edelstein   Violin
Irving Goodman   Trumpet
William Miller   Violin
Roy Harte   Drums
Eudice Shapiro   Violin
Stan Applebaum   Conductor
Harry Bluestone   Violin
Don Costa   Conductor
Richard Taylor "Dick" Nash   Trombone
Leroy Holmes & His Orchestra   Conductor
Samuel Boghossian   Viola
Neil Sedaka   Piano
Louis Adrian   Violin
Eunice Wennermark   Violin
John Santulis   Violin
Joe Mele Copacabana Band   Piano
Wesley Webb West   Guitar (Steel)
Francis L. "Joe" Howard   Trombone
Stanley Chaloupka   Harp
Harry Zagon   Violin
Howard Leslie Heitmeyer   Guitar
Oliver E. "Ollie" Mitchell   Trumpet
Alfred Lustgarten   Violin
Theodore M. "Ted" Nash   Saxophone
Ray Ellis   Conductor
Morty Craft   Conductor
Darrel Terwilliger   Violin
Norman Botnick   Viola
Joseph Livoti   Violin
Larry Breen   Bass
Samuel Cytron   Violin
William Pitman   Guitar
Don Ferris   Piano
Joe Lipman   Conductor
Ted Rosen   Violin
Harold Dicterow   Violin
Victor Bay   Violin
George Werth   Trumpet
Louis Singer   Drums
John Peter DeVoogt   Violin
Jacques Ray   Viola
Seymour Kramer   Violin
Jane Russell   Violin
William Weiss   Violin
Phil Stevens   Bass

Technical Credits

Connie Francis   Vocal Overdubs,Composer
Jack Nance   Composer
Clint Ballard, Jr.   Composer
Benny Davis   Composer
Doc Pomus   Composer
Fred Rose   Composer
Edgar Leslie   Composer
Pearl King   Composer
Sid Tepper   Composer
Bob Crewe   Composer
Borney Bergantine   Composer
Billy Rose   Composer
Neil Sedaka   Composer
Jesse Kaye   Producer
Neil Nephew   Composer
Dave Bartholomew   Composer
Mort Shuman   Composer
Athena Hosey   Composer
Hal Gordon   Composer
Winfield Scott   Composer
Harry Ruby   Composer
David Rose   Leader
Bert Kalmar   Composer
Ted Snyder   Composer
Sylvia Dee   Composer
J.D. Miller   Composer
Colin Escott   Liner Notes
Jack Keller   Composer
Conway Twitty   Composer
Frank Slay   Composer
Eddie Curtis   Composer
Frederick Tobias   Composer
Fred Fisher   Composer
Howard Greenfield   Composer
John Berry   Composer
Joe Sherman   Arranger
Horatio Nicholls   Composer
Mark Lewis   Composer
Harry Meyerson   Producer
Hy Heath   Composer
Don Stirling   Composer
Arnold Maxin   Producer
Gary Temkin   Composer
Betty Peterson   Composer
Joe Burke   Composer
George Goehring   Composer
Greg Goehring   Composer
Roy Bennett   Composer
Richard Weize   Discography,Reissue Producer
Ray Ellis   Producer
Otis Blackwell   Composer
Morty Craft   Producer
Brad Boobis   Composer
Juergen Crasser   Mastering
R.A. Andreas   Photography,Illustrations
Gus Levene   Leader
Edna Lewis   Composer
Wolfgang Taubenauer   Artwork
Don Covay   Composer