confranfan - 45worlds - All Comments

confranfan - 45worlds - All Comments

« Member Page

Page 9 of 21 : Previous : Next :

Member	Item		Review/Comment
confranfan SUBS 24th Jun 2017		Vinyl Album Connie Francis - I'm Me Again	POLYDOR RECORDS LTD release POLYDOR label Same content and album pose as USA LP MGM MG-1-5406. This album was simultaneously issued on cassette POLYDOR 3110 387. There were varying circumstances prevailing in Britain at the time of this release, hence it appears on the Polydor label albeit with the 2315 international prefix which had hitherto been one assigned to MGM. The album sleeve is a reproduction of the US edition but with modifications to catalog numbers and copyright credits. It retains the MGM logo on both front and liner, the latter giving the catalog number as MGM SUPER 2315 426. Added non-glare scan of album front cover.
confranfan SUBS 24th Jun 2017		Vinyl Album Connie Francis - Connie Francis Sings Great Country Hits	POLYDOR RECORDS LTD release MGM label - MGM SELECT "2353 000" Series A2: I REALLY DON'T WANT TO KNOW [Second recording] The above album was also issued on cassette MGM 3110 045. Album sleeve incorporates reproduction of pose used on USA LP MGM E/SE 4079 COUNTRY MUSIC CONNIE STYLE.
confranfan SUBS 24th Jun 2017		Vinyl Album Connie Francis And Hank Williams Jr. - Sing Great Country Favourites	POLYDOR RECORDS LTD release MGM label - MGM SPECIAL SERIES The above album was issued in the MGM "SPECIAL" series, a lower-price label supplementary to the main MGM SELECT catalog. Same content as USA LP MGM SE 4251 but supplied in a different sleeve. The above album was also issued on cassette MGM 3140 115. The sleeve to this release is an abysmally designed sleeve depicting a US railroad station with no pose of either Connie Francis or Hank Williams Jr. featured. Numerically, this budget issue is the last MGM label release in the Polydor catalog, although chronologically that distinction belongs to MGM 2353 129 CONNIE FRANCIS SINGS THE BIG BAND HITS, marketed in April 1977. Two months after the release of that item, Connie's material was transferred to the Polydor label and that of MGM retained for soundtrack purposes, until its eventual sale. Provided composer credit.
confranfan SUBS 24th Jun 2017		Vinyl Album Connie Francis - Connie Francis Sings The Big Band Hits	POLYDOR RECORDS LTD release MGM label - MGM SELECT "2353 000" Series This album was originally scheduled for release in November 1976. ROCK-A-BYE YOUR BABY WITH A DIXIE MELODY; MY MAN and WHEN THE CLOCK STRIKES MIDNIGHT formed part of the initial compilation made available in test pressing form and supplied with label copies but unreleased. The below listed tracks were used to replace the aforementioned tracks mentioned above. B1: LOVE IS WHERE YOU FIND IT B3: MISIRLOU B4: YOU OUGHTA BE IN PICTURES The above album was also issued on cassette MGM 3110 308. Provided composer credit.
confranfan SUBS 23rd Jun 2017		Vinyl Album Connie Francis - The Special Magic Of Connie Francis Vol 2	POLYDOR RECORDS LTD Release MGM label - MGM SELECT "2353 000" Series A3: SPANISH NIGHTS AND YOU [Second recording] A5: BE ANYTHING [BUT BE MINE] (2:10 version) B4: LA VIE EN ROSE [TAKE ME TO YOUR HEART AGAIN] (Second recording) The above album was also issued on cassette MGM 3110 302. Added composer credits.
confranfan SUBS 23rd Jun 2017		Vinyl Album Connie Francis - Connie Francis Sings The Great Movie Hits	POLYDOR RECORDS LTD release MGM label - MGM SELECT "2353 000" Series A4: YOU'LL NEVER KNOW [Overdubbed accompaniment] A8: SECRET LOVE [Overdubbed accompaniment] B1: SOMEWHERE MY LOVE [Third recording with intro] B3: ALL THE WAY [Overdubbed accompaniment] B7: ANNIVERSARY SONG [Oh, How We Danced] The above album was also issued on cassette MGM 3110 298. Provided clearer cover art scans and composer credit.
confranfan SUBS 23rd Jun 2017		Vinyl Album Connie Francis - Connie Francis Sings Great Country Hits Vol 2	POLYDOR RECORDS LTD release MGM label - MGM SELECT "2353 000" Series A4: BLUE BLUE DAY [Duet with Hank Williams, Jr.] B7: WALK ON BY [Duet with Hank Williams, Jr.] The original compilation of CONNIE FRANCIS SINGS GREAT COUNTRY HITS VOL. 2 was planned for release in August 1973. Test pressings indicated that the tape quality of both SOMEDAY [YOU'LL WANT ME TO WANT YOU] and YOU WERE ONLY FOOLING did not meet the required standard and these tracks were substituted with: A2: IF YOU EVER GET LONELY B4: I'D BE A LEGEND IN MY TIME The above album was also issued on cassette MGM 3110 216 and cartridge 3807 216. Provided clearer album cover scans and composer credit.
confranfan SUBS 23rd Jun 2017		Vinyl Album Connie Francis - Great Songs Of The Sixties	POLYDOR RECORDS LTD. release MGM label - MGM SELECT "2353 000" Series A6: WHAT KIND OF FOOL AM I? [Second version] B1: WHAT NOW MY LOVE [Et Maintenant/Second recording - English & French] B7: MAKE IT EASY ON YOURSELF [Second recording] The above album was also assigned the cassette number MGM 3110 192, but it was never released.
confranfan SUBS 23rd Jun 2017		Vinyl Album Connie Francis - Greatest Hits, Vol. 2	POLYDOR RECORDS LTD release MGM label - MGM SELECT "2353 000" Series This album was also issued on cassette MGM 3110 066. More carelessness by Polydor resulted in MY HEART HAS A MIND OF ITS OWN being featured on both the above album and GREATEST HITS on MGM 2353 039. The track should have been BREAKIN' IN A BRAND NEW BROKEN HEART. A1: TOGETHER [First recording] A5: IF MY PILLOW COULD TALK [Third recording] A8: VALENTINO [Dual track version] B2: SECOND HAND LOVE [Dual track version] B7: MY HEART HAS A MIND OF ITS OWN [2:31 version] B8: JEALOUS HEART [Second dual track LP version]
confranfan SUBS 23rd Jun 2017		Vinyl Album Connie Francis - Connie Francis Sings Great Country Hits	Provided clearer label scans.
confranfan SUBS 23rd Jun 2017		Vinyl Album Connie Francis - Greatest Hits	Polydor took over MGM shortly after EMI's release of MGM CS 8117 CONNIE FRANCIS SINGS THE SONGS OF LES REED in 1970, but it was not until late the following year that the company marketed its first British Connie Francis album releases. All LPs were issued in stereo format, although printed symbols denoted tracks which either appeared in mono or electronically enhanced stereo. MGM 2353 series album liners carry the word "SELECT" to identify the category of release. This was placed after the catalog number on the first five releases, but preceding it on all others, as if forming part of the number. Since "SELECT" does not appear on the labels, the entries posted to this site consider it appropriate to identify the series only. The 2353 series has been followed by one release in the 2354 range, described Polydor and MGM "SPECIAL". From 1970 until the summer of 1973, Polydor's Connie Francis artwork consisted of one 8X10 black and white photograph, one album cover, one mid-Sixties US inner liner featuring a black and white picture, and one 8X10 b/w photograph; all of which were utilized to make up album sleeves! EMI, apparently, no longer connected with MGM, had disposed of its entire 12-year stock of materials - including tapes of still-to-be issued recordings at the time. Such an unbelievable state of affairs may have lent sympathy for Polydor had they embarked on an immediate release program. However, given the near two years before their first album, and the release in mono of tracks which had only been commercially issued in stereo, most would agree that this merely served to illustrate the lack of care and cost-cutting approach to the British marketing of Connie Francis product at the time. There was a marked improvement both in quality of content and packaging from late 1974 which led directly to an upswing in radio plays and renewed interest. This culminated in the record-breaking chart-topping achievement of 20 ALL TIME GREATS, Connie's first UK album to appear on the Polydor label. It was during this period that some of the rarest of worldwide Connie Francis items were manufactured, in the form of test pressings and, in a couple of instances, proof liners. These pressings, extremely limited in number, are highly prized collectors' items and have been included here on the site under catalog numbers assigned to them. In all instances the numbers match those of any officially released compilations. They affected both MGM and Polydor label releases and amply illustrate the positive change in company attitude. The pressings came with "label copies" containing song titles, running times, composers and publishing credits. Unless stated otherwise, they were supplied in plain white sleeves with cut-out centers. POLYDOR RECORDS LTD release MGM label - MGM SELECT "2353 000" Series B1: ROBOT MAN [Second recording] B2: MY HEART HAS A MIND OF ITS OWN [2:31 VERSION] Also issued on cassette MGM 3110 043 and cartridge VERVE 3807 146. Despite 3807 being the Polydor International code for an MGM 8-track cartridge, both box and liner credit Verve and reproduce that labels logo. Album sleeve is a blue dye enlargement of black & white half-tone picture used on mid-Sixties US inner LP covers.
confranfan SUBS 22nd Jun 2017		Vinyl Album Connie Francis - My Heart Cries For You	MGM C/CS 8050 LOVE ITALIAN STYLE and C/CS 8054 MY HEART CRIES FOR YOU were the only two Connie Francis albums marketed by the independent MGM Records. The lack of releases was brought about by the unsuitability of both USA LP MGM E/SE 4472 HAPPINESS - ON BROADWAY TODAY and MGM E/SE 4474 GRANDES EXITOS DEL CINE DE LOS ANOS 60. The former fell foul of British music copyright laws (in effect at the time) regarding musical shows material, and the latter was considered to have a non-existent UK market.
confranfan SUBS 22nd Jun 2017		Vinyl Album Connie Francis - Love Italian Style	EMI RECORDS LTD release MGM label - MONO/STEREO "C/CS 8000" Series Same content and album pose as USA LP MGM E 4448. The following items were released by MGM Records during its British "independence" which began in July 1967, with pressing and distribution being handled by EMI. Because of the maintained continuity of C/CS catalog numbers, and the retained connection with EMI Records Ltd, these have been grouped with that company's releases.
confranfan SUBS 22nd Jun 2017		Vinyl Album Connie Francis - The Best Of Connie Francis	EMI RECORDS LTD release MGM label - MONO/STEREO "C/CS 8000" Series A8: TOGETHER : First recording B3: MY HEART HAS A MIND OF ITS OWN: 2:31 version B4: ROBOT MAN: Second recording B7: JEALOUS HEART: Second dual track / LP version B8: MANY TEARS AGO: Live At The Copa version The above album was the third compilation of Connie Francis singles tracks to be issued, but the first devoted entirely to genuine hit titles. Unlike it predecessors MGM C 831 CONNIE'S GREATEST HITS and MGM C 970 16 OF CONNIE'S BIGGEST HITS, it was not based on a US release and was supplied in a unique picture sleeve resulting from a May 1965 press photographic session held at the Mayfair Hotel in London. B8: MANY TEARS AGO is a "live" version culled from USA LP MGM E 3913 CONNIE FRANCIS AT THE COPA, and not the original singles version. B8: JEALOUS HEART is the second dual-tracked LP version and not the original dual-tracked singles version. THE BEST OF CONNIE FRANCIS was the last album to be marketed by EMI prior to MGM's brief period of independence, during which time it was responsible for its own marketing and promotion.
confranfan SUBS 22nd Jun 2017		Vinyl Album Connie Francis - Live At The Sahara In Las Vegas	EMI RECORDS LTD release MGM label - MONO/STEREO "C/CS 8000" Series Same content and album artwork as USA LP MGM E 4411. Provided cleaner cover scans.
confranfan SUBS 22nd Jun 2017		Vinyl Album Connie Francis - Movie Greats Of The 60's	EMI RECORDS LTD release MGM label - MONO/STEREO "C/CS 8000" Series Same content and album artwork as USA LP MGM SE 4382.
confranfan SUBS 22nd Jun 2017		Vinyl Album Connie Francis - Jealous Heart	EMI RECORDS LTD release MGM label - MONO/STEREO "C/CS 8000" Series Same content and album artwork as USA LP MGM E 4355. Added cleaner scans of front and back cover.
confranfan SUBS 21st Jun 2017		Vinyl Album Connie Francis - Greatest American Waltzes Sung By Connie Francis	EMI RECORDS LTD release MGM label - STEREO "CS 6000" Series Same content and album artwork as USA LP MGM SE 4145. The above album was also issued in mono on MGM C 958. Added cleaner scans of front and back cover.
confranfan SUBS 21st Jun 2017		Vinyl Album Connie Francis - Follow The Boys	EMI RECORDS LTD release MGM label - STEREO "CS 6000" Series Same content and album artwork as USA LP MGM SE 4123. The above album was also issued in mono on MGM C 931. Added back cover & label scans to complete the entry.
confranfan SUBS 19th Jun 2017		Vinyl Album Connie Francis - Sings Italian Favourites	EMI RECORDS LTD release MGM label -STEREO "CS 6000" Series The following releases in this series are stereo pressings which were issued in conjunction with the mono items outlined with preceding entries. The development of stereo was slower in the UK than the US and, as a result, several of Connie's early albums were not made available in this format. Her EMI stereo catalog began in late 1960 and, in a number of instances, releases took effect some time after the mono edition had been made available. The stereo items in this section were issued in the MGM CS 6000 series, in operation between 1960 and 1966. In 1966 a new 8000 series of catalog numbers, applicable to both mono and stereo pressings, was developed, retaining the use of the prefixes "C" and "CS". Same content and album artwork as USA LP MGM SE 3791. The above album was also issued in mono on MGM C 821. Provided cleaner scan of back cover.
confranfan SUBS 19th Jun 2017		Vinyl Album Connie Francis - Connie Francis Sings All Time International Hits	Added cleaner scan of back cover.
confranfan SUBS 19th Jun 2017		Vinyl Album Connie Francis - Connie Francis Sings All Time International Hits	EMI RECORDS LTD release MGM label - MONO "C" Original Series Same content and album artwork as USA LP MGM E 4298 The above album was also issued in stereo on MGM CS 6083. EMI pressings of the compilation chose to play it safe! It has been entered as CONNIE FRANCIS SINGS ALL TIME INTERNATIONAL HITS, since that is how it appears on the front of the album sleeve. On the spine of the cover, however, it states CONNIE FRANCIS SINGS THE ALL TIME INTERNATIONAL HITS. On the sleeve liner the title is given as CONNIE FRANCIS SINGS ALL TIME INTERNATIONAL FAVOURITES, while record labels state CONNIE FRANCIS SINGS ALL TIME INTERNATIONAL FAVORITES [with the American spelling!]. Should any variations be discovered - whether correct spelling of "FAVORITES" on labels, or amendments to any presentations of the titles as outlined - these will be additionally represented in the future. The above set was the last Connie Francis album to be released in either the original mono "C" prefix or stereo "CS 6000" series. For the next two years, until the phasing out of separate mono/stereo pressings, a new "8000" range of numbers was adopted for both, but again employing "C" for mono pressings and "CS" to denote stereo. These releases are to be found directly after the MGM CS 6000 series of stereo equivalents to the mono items outlined thus far.
confranfan SUBS 18th Jun 2017		Vinyl Album Connie Francis - A New Kind Of Connie	EMI RECORDS LTD release MGM label - MONO "C" Original Series Same content and album artwork as USA LP MGM E 4253. The above album was also issued in stereo on MGM CS 6080.
confranfan SUBS 18th Jun 2017		Vinyl Album Connie Francis - Connie Francis Sings Songs From Her New MGM Motion Picture Looking For Love	EMI RECORDS LTD release MGM label - MONO "C" Original Series Same content and album artwork as USA LP MGM E 4229. The above album was also issued in stereo on MGM CS 6079. Provided cleaner scan of back cover.
confranfan SUBS 18th Jun 2017		Vinyl Album Connie Francis - Connie Francis Sings Award Winning Motion Picture Hits	EMI RECORDS LTD release MGM label - MONO "C" Original Series Same content and album artwork as USA LP MGM E 4048. The above album was also issued in stereo on MGM CS 6070.
confranfan SUBS 18th Jun 2017		Vinyl Album Connie Francis - Follow The Boys	MGM RECORDS LTD release MGM label - MONO "C" Original Series Same content and album artwork as USA LP MGM E 4123. The above album was also issued in stereo on MGM CS 6068.
confranfan SUBS 18th Jun 2017		Vinyl Album Connie Francis - Connie Francis Sings Modern Italian Hits	EMI RECORDS LTD release MGM label - MONO "C" Original Series Same content and album artwork as USA LP MGM E 4102. The above album was also issued in stereo on MGM CS 6067.
confranfan SUBS 18th Jun 2017		Vinyl Album Connie Francis - Country Music Connie Style	EMI RECORDS LTD release MGM label - MONO "C" Original Series Same content and album artwork as USA LP MGM E 4079. The above album was also issued in stereo on MGM CS 6062.
confranfan SUBS 18th Jun 2017		Vinyl Album Connie Francis - Connie Francis Sings Folk Song Favorites	EMI RECORDS LTD release MGM label - MONO "C" Original Series Same content and album artwork as USA LP MGM E 3969. Also issued in stereo on MGM CS 6054.
confranfan SUBS 16th Jun 2017		Vinyl Album Connie Francis - Connie Francis Sings "Never On Sunday" And Other Title Songs From Motion Pictures	EMI Records LTD release MGM label - MONO "C" Original Series Same content and album artwork as USA LP MGM E 3965. This album was also issued in stereo on MGM CS 6047. The correct release date for this entry is January 1962.

Page 9 of 21 : Previous : Next :