MANY
TEARS AGO
CONNIE
FRANCIS
SONGWRITER: WINFIELD SCOTT
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: LOVE ‘N’ COUNTRY
LABEL: MGM
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 1989
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.
Francis was born to na Italian-American family in the Ironbound neighborhood of Newark,
New Jersey, the first child of George and
Ida (née Ferrari-di Vito) Franconero, spending her first years in the Crown
Heights, Brooklyn area (Utica Avenue/St.
Marks Avenue) before the family moved to New Jersey.
Growing up in an Italian-Jewish neighborhood,
Francis became fluent in Yiddish, which
led her later to record songs in Yiddish and Hebrew.
In
her autobiography Who's Sorry Now? published in 1984, Francis recalls
that she was encouraged by her father to appear regularly at talent contests,
pageants, and other neighborhood festivities from the age of four as a singer
and accordion player.
Francis attended Newark
Arts High School in 1951 and 1952. She and
her family moved to Belleville,
New Jersey, where Francis graduated as salutatorian from Belleville High School Class of 1955.
During
this time, Francis continued to perform at neighborhood festivities and talent
shows (some of which were broadcast on television), appearing alternately as
Concetta Franconero and Connie Franconero. Under the
latter name, she also appeared on NBC's
variety show Startime Kids between 1953 and 1955.
During the rehearsals for her appearance on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, Francis
was advised by Godfrey to change her stage name to Connie Francis for the sake
of easier pronunciation. Godfrey also told her to drop the accordion – advice
she gladly followed, as she had begun to hate the large and heavy instrument. Around
the same time, Francis took a job as a singer on demonstration records,
which brought unreleased songs to the attention of established singers and/or
their management who would subsequently choose or decline to record them for a
professional commercial record.
"Many Tears Ago" is a song written
by Winfield Scott and performed
by Connie Francis.
It reached #7 on the U.S. pop chart and #12 on the UK
Singles Chart in 1960.
The single's B-side,
"Senza Mama (With No One)", reached #87 on the U.S. pop chart.
They said your
cheating heart will make me cry
And like a fool I gave it a try
I should've listened when they told me so
Many many tears ago
But I could not believe the things they said
Because my heart over ruled my head
I should've listened when they told me so
Many many tears ago
I laughed out loud when they told me
That you had someone else
But your cheating heart has shown me
That I was foolin' myself
I know it's too late for a brand new start
For I have cried you out of my heart
I should've listened when they told me so
Many many tears ago
I laughed out loud when they told me
That you had someone else
But your cheating heart has shown me
That I was foolin' myself
I know it's too late for a brand new start
For I have cried you out of my heart
I should've listened when they told me so
I should've listened when they told me so
Many many tears ago.
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