CONNIE FRANCIS
VINTAGE JAPANESE PICTURE SLEEVE 45 rpm
ATASHI-NO (WHERE THE BOYS ARE sung in Japanese)
DON'T BE CRUEL (sung in English)
LABEL = MGM LL-2104
YEAR OF RELEASE = 1961
COUNTRY OF RELEASE = JAPAN
VINYL = MINT-
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COMES WITH VINTAGE PICTURE SLEEVE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION WITH MILD WEAR AND CREASING. Where the Boys Are is a song written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield and first recorded by Connie Francis.
Original version by Connie Francis
Premise
When Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer signed Connie Francis for a major starring rôle in the motion picture Where the Boys Are (based on the novel of the same name by Glendon Swarthout), Francis solicited the services of Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield, who had written hit songs for her previously (e. g. "Stupid Cupid"), to write original material for her to perform on the film's soundtrack including a Where the Boys Are title song.
Sedaka and Greenfield wrote two potential title songs for the film, but producer Joe Pasternak dismissed the song preferred by Francis and the songwriting team. The dismissed version in question was never recorded, not even for demonstration purposes, as Francis (vocal) and Sedaka (piano) had presented both songs as a live performance for Pasternak.
Motion Picture Version
The version chosen by Joe Pasternak was recorded for the first time on July 12, 1960 in Hollywood and was only used when combined to medleys with the overture and closing credits scores written by George E. Stoll.
Original Version 1960
Francis recorded the record version of Where the Boys Are on 18 October 1960 in a New York City recording session with Stan Applebaum arranging and conducting. The same session also came up with Francis' hits Many Tears Ago and Breakin' in a Brand New Broken Heart as well as the songs On the Outside Looking In, Happy New Year Baby, and Mein Herz weiß genau, was es will, which all would remain unreleased until the 1980s.
Subsequently, Francis recorded "Where the Boys Are" in six other languages on November 9, 1960:
German: Wenn ich träume
French: Je sais qu'un gars
Japanese: Atashi-no
Italian: Qualcuno mi aspetta
Neapolitan: C'è qualcuno
Spanish: Donde hay chicos
The different versions of the track would provide her with a #1 hit in some fifteen countries. The Japanese version Atashi-no was even released in the US on MGM Records Single K 13005.
Where the Boys Are was comparatively less successful in the English speaking world: its US peak was #4 while the track peaked on both the UK and Australian charts at #5. However, Where the Boys Are became Francis' signature tune and remains a fan favorite.
1978 Recording
After several years of stage absence, Francis recorded a new album entitled Who's Happy Now? in 1978. A revamped Disco version of Where the Boys Are was chosen as the leading track of the album and culled as a single. Although the English recording wasn't able to crack the charts anywhere, Francis also recorded Spanish, Italian and Japanese Disco versions of the song.
Cover versions
Matti Heinivaho recorded the song in 1961 in Finnish as Tuolla jossain (meaning There Somewhere)
Lisa Hartman performed Where the Boys Are for the 1984 remake of the motion picture.
Lorna Luft who co-starred in the 1984 film also recorded a disco version issued in the name Lorna.
Tracey Ullman recorded Where the Boys Are for her You Caught Me Out album.
Linda Martin recorded Where the Boys Are and reached #19 in Ireland.
The Czars recorded Where the Boys Are in 2005 for their album Sorry I Made You Cry.
Kari Tapio recorded another Finnish version entitled Milloin saapuu hän (When will she arrive) in 1992 for his album Yön tuuli vain
Anne Mattila covered Kari Tapio's version for her 2004 album Unihiekkaa.
Jane McDonald recorded "Where the Boys Are" for her 2005 album You Belong to Me.
LeAnn Rimes performed the song as Connie Francis on the NBC drama series American Dreams in Season 1, episode 19 entitled "Where the Boys Are".
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Connie Francis (born Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero; December 12, 1938) is an American pop singer, and the top-charting female vocalist of the 1950s and 1960s. She is best known for her downbeat ballads delivered in her trademark sobbing, emotive style. In addition to her signature song, "Who's Sorry Now?", her many hits include "Lipstick on Your Collar", "Where the Boys Are", and "Stupid Cupid". She topped the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart on three occasions with "Everybody's Somebody's Fool", "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own" and "Don't Break the Heart That Loves You". She also was known for her early relationship with the singer and teen heart-throb Bobby Darin. Francis was born in the Italian Down Neck, or Ironbound, neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey. She attended Newark Arts High School in 1951 and 1952. She and her family moved to Belleville, New Jersey, where she graduated 'Salutatorian' from the Belleville High School Class of 1955. Following her appearance on the Arthur Godfrey show (singing "Daddy's Little Girl"), Connie was advised to change her name from Franconero to something more easily pronounceable and to drop the accordion that was part of her act. Then in her 1952 appearance on Battle of the Ages she is introduced as "13-year-old Connie Francis." There she sang "Wheel of Fortune." The story goes that every record label she had tried had turned her down. Finally, even when MGM decided to take her, it was basically because the track she wanted to record, "Freddy," happened to be the name of the son of a company executive. Francis' first single, "Freddy," (1955) and her next nine singles were commercial failures. Early in her career, Francis was introduced to Bobby Darin, then an up-and-coming singer and songwriter. Darin's manager arranged for him to help write several songs for her. Despite some disagreement about material, after several weeks Darin and Francis developed a romantic relationship. Francis' strict Italian father would separate the couple whenever possible. When her father learned that Bobby Darin had suggested the two lovers elope after one of her shows, he ran Darin out of the building at gunpoint, telling Bobby to never see his daughter again. Francis saw Darin only two more times - once when the two were scheduled to sing together for a television show, and again when Francis was spotlighted on the TV series This Is Your Life. By the latter's taping, Bobby Darin had married actress Sandra Dee. In her autobiography Francis says she and her father were driving into the Lincoln Tunnel when the radio DJ announced Darin's and Dee's marriage. Her father made a negative comment about Bobby finally being out of their lives. Angered, Francis wrote, she hoped the Hudson River would fill the Lincoln Tunnel, killing both herself and her father; she later wrote that not marrying Darin was the biggest mistake of her life. After the failure of her first nine demos, MGM was about to drop her. She considered a career in medicine. At what was to have been her final recording session for MGM she recorded a cover version of the 1923 song "Who's Sorry Now?" which had been written by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby. Francis has said that she recorded it at the suggestion of her father, who convinced her it stood a chance of becoming a hit because it was a song adults already knew and that teenagers would dance to if it had a contemporary arrangement. The gamble paid off. On January 1, 1958, the song debuted on Dick Clark's American Bandstand. By mid-year, over a million copies had been sold, and Francis was suddenly launched into worldwide stardom. In April 1958, "Who's Sorry Now" reached number one on the UK Singles Chart and number four in the US. For the next four years, Francis was voted the "Best Female Vocalist" by "American Bandstand" viewers. In 1959, she also appeared on ABC's The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, as did many other singers of her generation. As Francis explains at each of her concerts, she began searching for a new hit immediately after the success of "Who's Sorry Now?" After the relative failure of follow-up single "I'm Sorry I Made You Cry" (which stalled at #36), Francis met with Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield who sang a number of ballads they had written for her. After a few hours, Francis began writing in her diary while the songwriters played the last of their ballads. Afterward, Francis told them that she considered their ballads too intellectual for the young generation. Greenfield suggested that Sedaka sing a song they had written that morning for another girl group. Sedaka protested that Francis would be insulted, but Greenfield said that since she hated all the other songs they had performed, they had nothing to lose. Sedaka played "Stupid Cupid." When he finished, Francis announced that he had just played her new hit record. The song reached #14 on the Billboard chart. (Incidentally, while Francis was writing in her diary, Sedaka asked her if he could read what she had written. She refused, but Sedaka was inspired to write "The Diary," his own first hit single. Through the rest of her early career, Sedaka and Greenfield wrote many of her hits, including "Fallin'" (#30) and "Where the Boys Are" (#4). The success of "Stupid Cupid" restored momentum to Francis' chart career, and she reached the U.S. top 40 an additional seven times during the remainder of the '50s; four of her singles -- "My Happiness," "Lipstick on Your Collar," "Among My Souvenirs," and "Mama" -- were top-ten singles. In 1960, Connie Francis became the youngest headliner to sing in Las Vegas, where she would play 28 days a year for the next nine years. That same year she also became the first female singer to have two consecutive No. 1 singles: "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" and "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own." (By 1967, Francis had had 35 U.S. Top 40 hits, three of which had reached No. 1. In 1961, she starred in her own television special on ABC television, sponsored by Brylcreem. In Kicking Sound Around, she sang and acted with Tab Hunter, Eddie Foy Jr. and Art Carney. The next year, she appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show on July 1, 1962, with the French singing star Johnny Hallyday in a show taped at the famous Moulin Rouge in Paris. Her first autobiography, For Every Young Heart, was released the same year. On July 3, 1963, she played a Royal Command Performance for Queen Elizabeth II at the Alhambra Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland. During the height of the Vietnam War in 1967, Connie Francis performed for U.S. troops. Further hits during the early 1960s included "Where the Boys Are," "Breaking In a Brand New Broken Heart," "Together" (all 1961), "Don't Break the Heart That Loves You" and "Second Hand Love" (1962). Due to changing trends in the early- and mid-1960s, Francis' chart success began to wane. She had her final top-ten hit, "Vacation," in 1962. A number of Francis singles continued to reach the top 40 in the U.S. Hot 100 through the mid-60s, with her last top 40 entry being 1964's "Be Anything (but Be Mine)." Her singles continued to chart in the lower regions of the Hot 100 through 1969 though she had one additional single ("Should I Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree?") "Bubble Under" the chart in 1973. (Her final AC chart single, "I'm Me Again," came in 1981.) Despite her declining chart success, Francis remained a top concert draw. Francis recorded several albums of country music standards during her pop career. In 1969, she had a modest country hit with "The Wedding Cake" and "My Happiness" (No. 2), which she recorded in 1958, and re-recorded in 1978 and 1989. She appeared on the country charts again in 1982 with "There's Still a Few Good Love Songs Left in Me." Several country singers found chart success remaking Francis' pop hits for the country market, including Marie Osmond, "Who's Sorry Now?" in 1975, Susan Raye, "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own" in 1972, and Margo Smith, "Don't Break The Heart That Loves You" in 1978. Debby Boone had two successful recordings of Connie Francis' songs, with "My Heart has a Mind of Its Own," reaching No. 11 in 1979 and another cover release, "Breakin' In a Brand New Broken Heart," which reached No. 25 in 1979. She also included "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" on her 1986 album, The Best of Debby Boone. After a hiatus in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Connie Francis returned to the spotlight in 1973 with "The Answer," a song written for her. She soon began performing again. While appearing at the Westbury Music Fair in New York, on November 8, 1974, Francis was raped at the Jericho Turnpike Howard Johnson's Lodge. She subsequently sued the motel chain for failing to provide adequate security. She reportedly won a $2.5[7] million judgment, at the time one of the largest such judgments in history. She did not perform again for seven years, and at one point in the seven years said she would never be able to perform again. Her rapist was never found. In 1978, she appeared with her friend Dick Clark on his NBC-TV variety show Dick Clark's Live Wednesday. Unknown to the audience, the still-fragile Francis lip-synched to a pre-recorded disco medley of her hit "Where the Boys Are." She released her autobiography, Who's Sorry Now?, in 1984. It was a New York Times bestseller. In 1989, she resumed her performing career again. Her most recent CD The American Tour (2004) contains performances from recent shows. In late December 2004, Francis headlined in Las Vegas for the first time since 1989. In March and October 2007, Francis performed to sold-out crowds at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco. She appeared in concert in Manila, the Philippines, on Valentine's Day 2008. 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). Her 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).[citation needed] 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." 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 fifteen 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 Bra?ov, 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. Francis appeared in the M-G-M motion pictures Where the Boys Are (1960); Follow the Boys (1963) (the title song of which became a No. 17 Billboard single for Francis); Looking for Love (1964), and When the Boys Meet the Girls (1965). She also overdubbed the vocals for Tuesday Weld in the 1956 movie "Rock, Rock, Rock," and for Freda Holloway in the 1957 Warner Brothers rock and roll movie Jamboree, singing the songs "Siempre," "For Children of All Ages," "Who Are We to Say," and "Twenty-Four Hours a Day," which appeared on the promotional soundtrack album for the film. Billboard chart historian Joel Whitburn has ranked Francis as the top female vocalist on the Adult Contemporary chart during the 1960s. In 1961, Francis was the first female artist to score a No. 1 Billboard Adult Contemporary single with "Together," and she topped the AC chart the following year with "Don't Break the Heart That Loves You." In 2000, "Who's Sorry Now?" was named one of the Songs of the Century. Francis was inducted into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame in December 2007, a charter first-ballot member. PACKAGING & SHIPPING
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