Connie Francis - On The Dancefloor With Connie Francis (CD)

One of the reasons Connie Francis was America's hands-down hottest female vocalist during the late '50s and early '60s was her extreme versatility. She could do it all and then some, squeezing every ounce of emotion out of an old Tin Pan Alley tearjerker, credibly singing in several different languages, and belting red-hot rock and roll that enlivened many a dance floor. This collection concentrates solely on the latter - 32 prime examples of Connie's beguiling way with up-tempo material that was aimed right at her worldwide teenage demographic. Naturally, her best-known rockers are on board - Stupid Cupid (provided by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield, with Neil on piano), Lipstick On Your Collar with it's jaw-dropping George Barnes guitar ride, the boisterous 1962 Top Ten hit Vacation - but plenty of deeper catalog sides are on offer too. An infectious cover of LaVern Baker's Tweedle Dee, the rousing Mr. Twister (co-written by future soul star Don Covay), a Sedaka/Greenfield-authored Baby Roo, the John D. Loudermilk-penned Hollywood and He's Just A Scientist, and a silly but undeniably fun Robot Man that was a huge 1960 British seller all demonstrate Francis' confident mastery of rock and roll (Francis wrote Plenty Good Lovin' and I Won't Be Home To You herself).

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. If My Pillow Could Talk
2. Stupid Cupid
3. Baby Roo
4. The Tiger And The Mouse
5. Ol' Man Mose
6. Torero
7. Looking For Love
8. Send For My Baby
9. Lipstick On Your Collar
10. Eighteen
11. Someone Else's Boy
12. Swanee
13. Vacation
14. My Real Happiness
15. Plenty Good Lovin'
16. Fallin'
17. Ain't That Better Baby?
18. Hollywood
19. Gona Git That Man
20. Many Tears Ago
21. Malaguena
22. Tweedle Dee
23. Telephone Lover
24. Everybody's Somebody's Fool
25. Robot Man
26. Come On, Jerry (Timber)
27. Mr. Twister
28. Johnny Darlin'
29. He's Just A Scientist
30. I Won't Be Home To You
31. The Song Is Ended (But The Melody Lingers On)
32. Goody Goodbye