I am looking for the chords for Mama by Connie Francis. If you are not familiar with the song, half of it is in Italian and the other in English. I would like to learn how to play it on the keyboard and I can only play chords. Please help!!! It is my italian grandmother’s favorite song and I would love to learn how to play it for her. Thanks!!
Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool/Connie Francis
February 1, 2012 By 25 Comments
“Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool” is a song written by Jack Keller (music) and Howard Greenfield (lyrics) which was a #1 hit for Connie Francis in mid 1960. Although “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool” was written as a bluesy ballad, Francis envisioned the song as polka style number feeling that as such it would fare well in the West German market and producer Arnold Maxin followed Francis’ advisement in the 7 April 1960 session at Olmstead Studios (NYC) when Francis cut the song with the Joe Sherman Orchestra. In the US “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool” was intended to serve as the B-side for the track “Jealous of You (Tango Della Gelosia)”, which like Francis’ precedent A-side hit “Mama” was a ballad of Italian origin; however most American radio stations preferred to play “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool” and – while “Jealous of You” did reach #19 – “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool” reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on 27 June 1960 and remained there the following week. The first of Francis’ three US #1’s, “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool” was also ranked on the R&B chart at #2 and was the only one of Francis’ major hits to cross over to the C&W charts where it peaked at #24. A #5 hit in the UK, “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool” was #1 in Australia for three weeks in July 1960 and in South Africa ranked as the #15 hit for that year. Francis’ instincts re the West German hit potential of “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool” proved correct: rendered as “Die Liebe ist ein seltsames Spiel” became the best …
What has Connie Francis & Celine Dion both sang?
January 15, 2012 By 4 Comments
First have they ever sang the same song and if so what is the name(s) of the song(s). And where can I find them to listen to.
CONNIE FRANCIS: “LIPSTICK ON YOUR COLLAR” ‘59 (The Saturday Night Beechnut Show)
January 6, 2012 By 25 Comments
This great rocker, recorded in May 1959, rose to the #5 spot on the Billboard Top 40 chart. It was the flipside of “Frankie,” another huge million-selling hit for Connie. This was a double-sided hit – the first for a female recording artist of the rock-and-roll era. I worked with old video but laid down an audio track using the CD version of the song. I had to do a little bit of creative editing to synchronize everything, but it was fun! Enjoy! FAIR USE” COPYRIGHT NOTICE: I believe posting of this video constitutes a “fair use” of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 USC Section 107, the material on this You Tube channel is uploaded and shared without fee or payment of any kind to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond ‘fair use’, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.
MAMA – CONNIE FRANCIS
January 1, 2012 By 12 Comments
Written in 1941 by Italian composer Cesare Andrea Bixio – he also wrote Vivere – Italian lyrics by Bruno Cherubini, English lyrics by Harold Barlow and Phil Brito, from Connie’s 1959 album ‘Connie Francis sings Italian Favourites’!!! Please COMMENT and RATE!!!
Can you write an amusing paragraph or 2 or more that include these CONNIE FRANCIS song titles?
January 1, 2012 By 7 Comments
1. Who’s Sorry Now?
2. Lipstick On Your Collar.
3. Where The Boys Are.
4. Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool
5. I’m Sorry I Made You Cry
6. Stupid Cupid
Oh My Darling Clementine
January 1, 2012 By 25 Comments
Oh My Darling Clementine By Connie Francis and Jonny Hills Oh My Darling, Clementine is an American western folk ballad usually credited to Percy Montrose (1884), even though it’s sometimes referred to Barker Bradford. The song is believed to have been based on another song called Down by the River Liv’d a Maiden by HS Thompson (1863). The words are those of a bereaved lover singing about his darling, the daughter of a miner in the 1849 California Gold Rush. He loses her in a drowning accident, though he consoles himself towards the end of the song with Clementine’s “little sister”. The verse about the little sister was often left out of folk song books intended for children, presumably because it seemed morally questionable. Gerald Brenan attributes the melody to originally being an old Spanish ballad in his book South from Granada. It was made popular by Mexican miners during the Gold Rush. It was also given various English texts. No particular source is cited to verify that the song he used to hear in the 1920s in a remote Spanish village was not an old text with new music, but Brenan states in his preface that all facts mentioned in the book have been checked reasonably well. Forty-niners The first people to rush to the gold fields, beginning in the spring of 1848, were the residents of California themselves—primarily agriculturally oriented Americans and Europeans living in Northern California, along with Native Americans and some Californios (Spanish-speaking …
What was the name of the Connie Francis song played in the movie The Craft?
December 19, 2011 By 3 Comments