I think Connie Francis was the greatest female vocalist from the late fifties through the mid sixties. (True: I was a young boy then, and in love with her voice.) But it wasn’t just my opinion, it was much of America’s (and the world’s) too.
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I think Connie Francis was the greatest female vocalist from the late fifties through the mid sixties. (True: I was a young boy then, and in love with her voice.) But it wasn’t just my opinion, it was much of America’s (and the world’s) too. It was the first number one single by a female singer in the rock era, the first to have “rock and roll” in the title, and the first number one single for RCA Records. I was turning six years old in the summer of 1957, when Patti Page’s David V. McLeodMarch 1, 1934 – January 23, 2009 This song was written for the Drifters by the prolific songwriting team of Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman. THE FOUR ACES lyrics - Love Is A Many Splendored Thing There’s a yellow rose in Texas, that I am going to see, In 1954, Bill Haley and His Comets recorded “Rock Around the Clock”. It was re-released later in 1955, in conjunction with the film Blackboard Jungle. The song rose to the top of the Billboard musical charts that summer and stayed there for eight weeks, the first rock and roll record to do so. One, two, [...] TimeLife.com |
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