Vocal style

Connie Francis - Vocal style

Connie Francis specialized in downbeat ballads (often remakes of old standards) delivered in her trademark "sobbing", emotive style. She often embellished using variations in delivery from touching, soft, sweet, tones to soaring, powerful voice textures, with successful hits such as "Who's Sorry Now?", "I'm Sorry I Made You Cry", "Second Hand Love" (No. 7), "Among My Souvenirs" (No. 7), "Together"(No. 6), "Breakin' In a Brand New Broken Heart" (No. 7), "Many Tears Ago" (No. 7), "Frankie" (No. 9), "When the Boy in Your Arms (Is the Boy in Your Heart)" (No. 10) and the Italian song "Mama" (No. 8). Francis also had success with several upbeat, rock-and-roll style compositions employing her powerful voice: "Stupid Cupid" (No. 1 in the UK), "Lipstick on Your Collar" (No. 5), "Robot Man" and "Vacation" (No. 9).

Connie Francis' other notable performances included "In the Summer of His Years", a tribute to slain U.S. President John F. Kennedy, and Bert Kaempfert's "Strangers in the Night", although the latter is more often associated with Frank Sinatra). Both "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" and "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own" went to No. 1 on the Billboard chart in 1960. In 1962, Francis had another number one hit with "Don't Break the Heart That Loves You".

Connie Francis recorded many of her hit songs in foreign languages, including "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" and her signature song, "Where the Boys Are". She recorded in thirteen languages throughout her career: English, Greek, German, Swedish, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian (and local language in Italy, Neapolitan), Hebrew, Yiddish, Japanese, Latin and Hawaiian. During a concert at the Golden Stag Festival in Braşov, Romania, in March 1970, Francis performed live in Romanian. Francis' biggest hit album in the U.S. was 1959's Italian Favorites; she followed it with several more albums of Italian language songs over the years, as well as collections of Spanish language and Jewish songs, among others.

Let's enjoy Connie Francis - If I Never Sing Another Song (Live Trumps 1993) from wrdane video

This seems to be Connie Francis' encore. What a superb performance of this song.

She's a gift to us all. Thank you so much to the lifelong fan who has shared these videos with us. To quote: "May they be viewed at least a million times."

Wow I love this song and you are right it belongs to Connie..

This song and connie are and will always be the perfect match made in heaven..

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