CONNIE FRANCIS - TAMMY

TAMMY

CONNIE FRANCIS

COMPOSITORES: JAY LIVINGSTON & RAY EVANS

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ÁLBUM: CONNIE FRANCIS SINGS NEVER ON SUNDA AND OTHER TITLE SONGS FROM M

GRAVADORA: MGM

GÊNERO: POP

ANO: 1961

Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero (December 12, 1937), better known as Connie Francis, is an American pop singer, former actress, and top-charting female vocalist of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Although her chart success waned in the second half of the 1960s, Francis remained a top concert draw. Despite several severe interruptions in her career, she is still active as a recording and performing artist.

In 1989, Francis resumed her recording and performing career again. For Malaco Records, Francis recorded a double album entitled Where the Hits Are, containing re-recordings of 18 of her biggest hits, as well as six classics of yesteryear Francis had always wanted to record such as "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" and "Torn Between Two Lovers".

In 1992, a medley of remixed versions of her biggest German hits charted in Germany. A single, entitled "Jive, Connie", ended up among the top-ten best-selling singles of the year, which brought Connie Francis the prestigious R.SH-Gold award for the "Best Comeback of the Year" from R.SH (short for "Radio Schleswig-Holstein"), back then one of Germany's most important private radio stations. A subsequent compilation album of her biggest German hits in their original versions was also released successfully. In the wake of this, Francis recorded two duets for the German Herzklang label (a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment) with Peter Kraus, with whom she had already worked several times in the late 1950s and early 1960s. A German-language solo album was supposed to follow on Herzklang, but despite all songs being recorded and mixed, the album remains unreleased.

In 1995, Francis recorded The Return Concert, a live album which was released on Legacy Recordings.

In 1996, With Love To Buddy, a tribute album of songs made famous by the late Buddy Holly, was released. Although this album continues to be re-released under various names on countless low-budget labels, With Love To Buddy remains Francis' last original release as of October 2011. At infrequent intervals, though, Francis releases compact disc albums and EPs in limited quantities on her own label, Concetta Records, containing previously unreleased material from her private archives.

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.

In 2010, she also appeared at the Las Vegas Hilton with Dionne Warwick, a show billed as "Eric Floyd's Grand Divas of Stage".

In December 2017, Francis released her most recent autobiography, Among My Souvenirs.

I hear the cottonwoods whispering above

Tammy, Tammy, Tammy's in love

The ole whootie owl whootie-hoo's to the dove

Tammy. oh Tammy, Tammy's in love.

Does my darling feel what I feel when he comes near

My heart beats so joyfully you'd think that he could hear

Wish I knew if he knew what I'm dreaming of

Tammy, Tammy, Tammy's in love.

(Whipporwill, whipporwill you and I know)

Tammy, Tammy can't let him go

(The breeze from the bayou keeps murmuring low)

Tammy, Tammy, you love him so.

When the night is warm soft and warm I long for his charms

I'd sing like a violin if I were in his arms

Wish I knew if he knew what I'm dreaming of

Tammy, Tammy, Tammy's in love...