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Cat. No. VV 1345: CONNIE FRANCIS ~ GREATEST HITS. VOL. 2. METRO RECORDS 2355 048.
Cat. No. VV 1345: CONNIE FRANCIS ~ GREATEST HITS. VOL. 2. METRO RECORDS 2355 048.

Cat. No. VV 1345: CONNIE FRANCIS ~ GREATEST HITS. VOL. 2. METRO RECORDS 2355 048.

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USED VINYL RECORD. PART OF A COLLECTON NOW UP FOR SALE.

AFTER A VERY POOR START TO HER CAREER TO THE EXTENT THAT HER RECORD COMPANY WAS ON THE THE VERGE OF DROPPING CONNIE FROM THE LABEL, CONNIE WENT ON TO BECOME THE BIGGEST FEMALE ARTIST OF THE LATE 1950s INTO THE MID 1960s WITH THANKS TO DICK CLARK OF AMERICAN BANDSTAND AFTER DICK HEARD CONNIE'S "WHO'S SORRY NOW" AND ARRANGED FOR CONNIE TO SING ON BANDSTAND AND, AS THEY SAY, THE REST IS HISTORY.

CONNIE BECAME THE FIRST WOMAN TO REACH NO. 1 ON THE US BILLBOARD HOT 100 WHEN "EVERYBODY'S SOMEBODY'S FOOL", AN OLD COUNTRY NUMBER ORIGINALLY PERFORMED BY ERNEST TUBB AND ROCKED UP A LITTLE, TOPPED THE CHART IN 1960. CONNIE WAS THE FIRST WOMAN TO ACHIEVE THREE No. 1 HITS ON THE CHARTS AMONG HER 53 ENTRIES. FOLLOWING THE BRITISH INVASION OF THE EARLY 1960s CONNIE'S CAREER WANED.

BETWEEN 1974 AND 1988, A SERIES OF TRAUMATIC PERSONAL EXPERIENCES, INCLUDING A RAPE ATTACK AT KNIFE-POINT, LED CONNIE TO SUFFER YEARS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL DIFFICULTIES THAT SIDELINED HER CAREER. CONNIE RESUMED PERFORMING FROM 1989 UNTIL HER RETIREMENT IN 2018. SHE REGAINED PROMINENCE IN 2025, SHORTLY BEFORE HER DEATH, WHEN HER 1961 RECORDING "PRETTY LITTLE BABY" (NOT INCLUDED HERE) WENT VIRAL ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS. MANY OF THE TRACKS PRESENTED HERE COULD EASILY HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN "GREATEST HITS VOL.1."

THE SLEEVE IS IN GOOD CONDITION WITH SOME SIGNS OF WEAR INCLUDING SOME RING WEAR AND A SMALL CREASE IN THE TOP R/H CORNER OF THE SLEEVE AND SOME WEAR ALONG THE EDGES. THERE ARE NO TEARS IN THE SLEEVE. THE RECORD IS GRADED AS EXCELLENT BORDERING ON NEAR MINT CONDITION.

TRACK LISTING: Side 1 - Together / I'm Sorry I Made You Cry / When The Boy In Your Arms (Is The Boy In Your Heart) / Teddy / If My Pillow Could Talk / Fallin' / You're Gonna Miss Me / Valentino. Side 2 - Happy Days And Lonely Nights / Second Hand Love / Drownin' My Sorrows / (He's My) Dreamboat / My Child / Don't Break The Heart That Loves You / My Heart Has A Mind Of It's Own / Jealous Heart.

12" VINYL RECORD

 

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