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Connie Francis Sings German Favorites
''Connie Francis sings German Favorites'' is a studio album of German songs recorded by U.S. entertainer Connie Francis. 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 and ...'', 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 ty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Studio Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Keller (songwriter)
Jack Walter Keller (born James Walter Keller; 11 November 1936 – 1 April 2005) was an American composer, songwriter and record producer. He co-wrote, with Howard Greenfield and others, several pop music, pop hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including "Just Between You and Me", "Everybody's Somebody's Fool", "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own", "Venus in Blue Jeans" and "Run to Him". He also wrote the theme songs for TV series including ''Bewitched'' and ''Gidget (TV series), Gidget'', and later worked in Los Angeles – where he wrote for, and record producer, produced, The Monkees – and in Nashville. Biography Keller was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of dance band musician Mal Keller and his wife Reva. Stuart Colman, Jack Ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German-language Albums
German ( ) is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol. It is also a co-official language of Luxembourg and Belgium, as well as a national language in Namibia. Outside Germany, it is also spoken by German communities in France (Bas-Rhin), Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Poland (Upper Silesia), Slovakia (Bratislava Region), and Hungary (Sopron). German is most similar to other languages within the West Germanic language branch, including Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Low German, Luxembourgish, Scots, and Yiddish. It also contains close similarities in vocabulary to some languages in the North Germanic group, such as Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish. German is the second most widely spoken Germanic language after English, which is also a West Germanic language. German is one of the major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1964 Albums
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Connie Francis Albums
Connie is a given name. It is often a pet form (hypocorism) of Concetta, Constance, Cornelia, or Cornelius. Given name or nickname Women * Connie Achurra, Chilean chef * Connie Binsfeld (1924–2014), American politician * Connie Booth (born 1944), American actress and writer, former wife of John Cleese * Connie Britton (born 1967), American actress, singer and producer * Connie Brockway (born 1954), American historical and romance novelist * Connie Carpenter-Phinney (born 1957), American retired cyclist and speed skater * Connie Chung (born 1946), American journalist * Constance Clayton (born 1933), American educator and civic leader * Connie Constance (born 1995), British singer and songwriter * Connie Conway (born 1950), American politician * Connie Desmond (1908–1983), American baseball sportscaster * Connie Dierking (1936–2013), American Basketball League and National Basketball Association player * Connie Egan, Northern Irish politician * Connie Fisher (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Leip
Hans Leip (22 September 1893 – 6 June 1983), was a German novelist, poet and playwright, best remembered as the lyricist of Lili Marleen. Leip was the son of a former sailor and harbour-worker at the port of Hamburg. He was educated there, and in 1914 became a teacher in the Hamburg suburb of Rothenburgsort. In 1915 he was called up by the German army and after training in Berlin served on the Eastern front and in the Carpathians. After being wounded in 1917 he was discharged on medical grounds. He first had ambitions as an artist, but then turned to writing, although he illustrated his books himself. In the 1920s, he travelled extensively, to Paris, London, Algiers and New York City, among other places. His breakthrough as a novelist was with the success of ''Godekes Knecht'', which was awarded the prize of the ' newspaper. His novels sold well in the years leading up to the outbreak of World War II, while he also wrote plays, short stories, poems, dramas and was also a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norbert Schultze
Norbert Arnold Wilhelm Richard Schultze (26 January 1911 in Brunswick – 14 October 2002 in Bad Tölz) was a prolific German composer of film music and a member of the NSDAP and of Joseph Goebbels' staff during World War II. He is best remembered for having written the melody of the World War II classic "Lili Marleen", originally a poem from the 1915 book ''Die kleine Hafenorgel'' by Hans Leip. Other works were the operas ''Schwarzer Peter'' and ''Das kalte Herz'', the musical ''Käpt'n Bye-Bye'', from which comes the evergreen "Nimm' mich mit, Kapitän, auf die Reise" ("Take me travelling, Captain"), as well as numerous films, such as ' (1955). Pseudonyms used by Schultze include ''Frank Norbert'', ''Peter Kornfeld'', and ''Henri Iversen''. Life Schultze took the Abitur in Brunswick and went on to study piano, conducting, composing and theatre science in Cologne and Munich. He went to the Bavarian capital in the 1930s as a composer and worked under the name Frank Norbert a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lili Marleen (Connie Francis Single)
"Lili Marleen" (also spelled "Lili Marlen'", "Lilli Marlene", "Lily Marlene", "Lili Marlène" among others; ) is a German love song that became popular during World War II throughout Europe and the Mediterranean among both Axis and Allied troops. Written in 1915 as a poem, the song was published in 1937 and was first recorded by Lale Andersen in 1939 as "Das Mädchen unter der Laterne" ("The Girl under the Lantern"). The song is perhaps best known as performed by Lale Andersen. In 2005, Bear Family Records released a 7-CD set ''Lili Marleen an allen Fronten'' ("Lili Marleen on all Fronts"), including nearly 200 versions of "Lili Marleen" with a 180-page booklet. (). Creation The words were written in 1915 as a poem of three verses by Hans Leip (1893–1983), a school teacher from Hamburg who had been conscripted into the Imperial German Army. Leip reportedly combined the nickname of his friend's girlfriend, Lili, with the name of another friend, Marleen, who was a nurse. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camillo Felgen
Camillo Jean Nicolas Felgen (17 November 1920 – 16 July 2005) was a Luxembourgish singer, lyricist, disc jockey, and television presenter, who represented Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest 1960 and in 1962. Biography Felgen started his career as a teacher. During the Second World War, Felgen was a translator for the German occupiers, and then a reporter with a French-language newspaper. He studied theater and opera in Brussels and Liège; in 1946, he joined Radio Luxembourg as a chorus singer and a French-language reporter. In 1949, the mastering of his baritone completed his theatre and opera studies. In 1951, he had his first international hit record, "Bonjour les amies" ("Hello Friends"). The song went on to become the theme song for his national broadcaster. In 1953, he recorded his first German-language record, "Onkel Toms altes Boot" ("Uncle Tom's Old Boat"), in Berlin. He represented his home country in the Eurovision Song Contest 1960 with " So laa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schöner Fremder Mann
''Schöner fremder Mann'' is the fourth German single recorded by U. S. entertainer Connie Francis. The song is the German cover version of Francis' U. S. recording '' Someone Else's Boy''. Although the original version didn't chart, it became one of Francis' biggest international successes, and it is the only song in her repertoire she recorded in eight languages: *English *German *French (as ''Celui que je veux'') *Italian (as ''Ti conquisterò'') *Spanish (as ''El novio de otra'', a. k. a. ''Mi tonto amor'') *Portuguese (as ''Um amor so meu'') *Dutch (as ''Jij bent niet van mij'') *Japanese (as ''夢のデイト'' - ''Yume no Deito''). ''Schöner fremder Mann'' became Francis' biggest hit to date in West Germany, peaking at # 1.Jan Feddersen: ''Connie Francis'', supplement to 5 CD Boxed Set ''Lass mir die bunten Träume'', Bear Family Records BCD 15 786 AH, Hambergen (Germany) 1994 The B-side of the single was ''Funiculì, Funiculà'', an Italian recording from her U. S. al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benny Davis
Benny Davis (August 21, 1895 - December 20, 1979) was a vaudeville performer and writer of popular songs. Biography Davis started performing in vaudeville in his teens. He began writing songs when working as an accompanist for Blossom Seeley. In 1917, he wrote "So Long Sammy" with Jack Yellen and "Good-Bye Broadway. Hello France" with C. Francis Reisner. His first success was 1920's "Margie", with music by Con Conrad and J. Russel Robinson. His most popular song was "Baby Face", written in 1926 with Harry Akst. For Broadway, Davis wrote the score for the 1927 edition of ''Artists and Models'' and for the 1929 show ''Sons o' Guns''. His career lasted until the mid-1930s. Davis's liberal use of false rhymes in his songs was scorned by some pure practitioners of the craft, and prompted Howard Dietz to compose a couplet: "Heaven Save Us, From Benny Davis." Nevertheless, Davis was voted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1975. Davis died in December 1979, aged 84, in Miami, Flor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tu' Mir Nicht Weh
''Tu' mir nicht weh'' is the eighth German single recorded by U. S. entertainer Connie Francis. The single's A-side is a German cover version of Francis' U. S. # 1 hit ''Don't Break the Heart That Loves You'', which Francis also recorded in *Italian (as ''Un desiderio folle'') *Japanese * Neapolitan (as ''Un desiderio folle'') *Spanish (as ''Mi corazón te adora'') The single's B-Side was ''Paradiso'', a song written especially in German for Francis. "Tu' mir nicht weh" peaked at # 2 of the German charts, while "Paradiso" peaked at # 1, marking this record as Francis first double-sided single in Germany of which the B-side scored better on the charts than the A-side.Richard Weize: ''Connie Francis'', companion book to 8-LP-Boxed Boxed Set ''Connie Francis in Deutschland'', Bear Family Records BFX 15 305, Hambergen/Vollersode (Germany) 1988 Subsequently, "Paradiso" became one of the biggest hits of the year 1962 with cover versions in *Dutch (recorded by Anneke Grönloh) *Fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
