''Connie Francis sings German Favorites'' is a

studio album An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track cartridge, 8-track or Cassette tape, cassette), or digital distribution, dig ...

of German songs recorded by American entertainer

Connie Francis Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero ( ; born December 12, 1937), known as Connie Francis, is a retired American Pop music, pop singer, actress, and top-charting female vocalist of the late 1950s and early 1960s. She is estimated to have sold more th ...

Background

Unlike the other installments in Francis' series of "Favorites" albums, ''Connie Francis sings German Favorites'' does not focus on the traditional songs of a certain country or ethnic group. Beginning in 1960 with the overwhelming success of ''Die Liebe ist ein seltsames Spiel'', a German version of her U.S. No. 1 hit ''

Everybody's Somebody's Fool "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" is a song written by Jack Keller and Howard Greenfield that was a No. 1 hit for Connie Francis in 1960. A polka-style version in German, "Die Liebe ist ein seltsames Spiel", was the first German single recorded an ...

'', Francis had established herself in Germany as a respected performer of contemporary German music. By the time of the album's release, Francis had enjoyed six No. 1 hits on the German charts. Hence, ''Connie Francis sings German Favorites'' is more of a typical pop Greatest Hits Album. Originally scheduled for release in late spring 1963, the album was not released until January 1964 because of the delayed release of Francis' 1962 album '' Connie Francis sings Award Winning Motion Picture Hits'', which had been scheduled for release in June 1962 but did not hit the shops until May 1963.Connie Francis: ''Souvenirs'', Booklet of 4-CD-Box, Polydor 1996, Cat.-No. 314 533 382-2

Track listing

Side A

Side B

References

External links

Official Connie Francis Fan Club Site
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