I can see that I neglected to address your Connie Francis comment!!!!!!

I guess I got carried away for some reason. lol

In any event Connie is also one of my favorites, forever and for always.

I love her voice and the kind of person she is.

If you have not heard her duet album with Hank Jr you are in for a treat.

I am also debating getting her recordings that she made in other languages (kind of mind boggling how much there is out there).

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Yes, I saw some of that info about Elvis, Floyd and Boots collaboration; when I was looking up info about Floyd Cramer.

Don't feel bad that I overwhelmed you with lists. I overwhelm myself with lists. It can be disconcerting at times. But once in a while, it pays off; and something gets accomplished, that nobody else, including the pros, ever did. Leaving a legacy with more positives than negatives, is a rewarding way to live.

Yep, I too, have the occasional treasure that Roger's shared with me. But I've already shared refreshments with him in Timmins, Deerhurst and other sites. Maybe I'll try Ottawa some time. I doubt he'll come here. Tho he and Kay are very welcome, he's kinda allergic to the US security policies. Not very fond of those myself. But that's life in the big country. Maybe in another 20 years, it will be India, China, or Brazil that are top dogs, throwing their weight around, generating resentment, as the primary target of assymetric opponents, and stumbling through defensive measures.

The Aquatones name sounds familiar to me. I thought I heard them before. However I did not remember the "You" song that is your favorite. And I see they're described as a 'one hit wonder' in some sites. Maybe it's one of the more recent songs that I was remembering.

"Say You'll Be Mine" from the original group, I think, has a nice female voice in lead, for a very beautiful melody.

http://s0.ilike.com/play#The+Aquatones: ... c755749d56

I've always been impressed with doowop. When I got drafted into US Army in Jan 1967, we were put on a train from Detroit, to St Louis. Since my last name begins with "A", I was one of the first in line, marched onto the train, with orders to go all the way to the other end and grab a spot for the trip. Unknown to any of us, the last car or two were deluxe Pullman sleepers. I had my own dang apartment.

The gate-door had an upper half and lower half. So I and the guy across the aisle confabbed all the way to St Louis, for 2 days and nights. He'd grown up on a farm too. But while I came from a workaholic family, he came from a music-holic family. He led summer camps, training people how to play and sing - a combination of religious and pop. When we finally got to Fort Leonard Wood, he canvassed our barracks, and out of 80, found four people who could sing and harmonize. I'd been in choir in high school, so knew the basics.

He taught us just one song in the few days we were at reception station awaiting assignment. But we got pretty good. At night, the 4 of us would belt out our 4 part harmony of some popular doo-wop song of the time. The barracks was mostly devoid of furniture, and echoed wonderfully as a reverb chamber. We'd get a crowd of many GI's gathering around our barracks door and windows, to listen to us, before the sergeant supervisor came by, told us to shut up and turn out the lights.

I looked through your link and some of the info, before reading the rest of your post. Interesting that you correspond with Dave, the original member of the group.

Some folks are personally accessible (at least online) like that, some are not. You can't always tell beforehand. For a couple examples, most of the Fabulous Falls are, but not all of them. Dana Delaney is accessible online, to fans, but I guess most of her contemporary counterparts are not.

It's been a long time since I heard Connie Francis from her early days. So I forgot how special her voice sounded back then. I was pleasantly surprised and reminded, when I was checking some of her top iLike songs (from Myspace), to see which ones would be in my favorites list from 1950-65.

Connie Francis had a wonderful voice (whether she dtill does, I don't know). She was far more popular than people in Canada and the USA realized. She sang in 13 languages. I don't know how many record sales she had in all but it was huge as she sold all over the world.

She is best known for Where the Boys Are but her plaintive "sobbing" voice was perfect for many other ballads, especially the song Mama.

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Yes, that plaintiff voice was one of the characteristics that I was reminded of when I listened to her a couple days ago.

One of the other characteristics was her ability to turn on a dime, and switch between sounding sexy (enticing/teasing etc) in one song, then sounding pleading in the next.

She could do that with just her voice, almost regardless of the words. But the right words, magnified the effect. Maybe it is something unique that she developed or made famous, like Floyd Cramer, with his "slip notes" on the piano. I think she developed a specific skill to change things in her voice, I don't know whether it's called vibrato, tremulo, portamento or what the heck. But it reminds me of something I've seen in forums about my keyboard. It lacks a "pitch bend" wheel or foot pedal, like some of the more recent keyboards.

These are 2 of the characteristics I noticed. I think there was a third, but my aging memory and concentration fail me at the moment. I've got something else on my mind, which distracts me, until I post it in a moment.

Curiously...,

Someone made a post in this thread, with notice sent by email on 1/3/2010 4:56 PM, to subscribers of this thread:

"You are receiving this email because you are watching the topic, "My New MP3 Music" at Shania Twain Centre. This topic has received a reply since your last visit. You can use the following link to view the replies made, no more notifications will be sent until you visit the topic."

http://www.shaniatwaincentre.com/forum/ ... 8560#48560

But a click on that link now, gets the message:

"The topic or post you requested does not exist"

This was before Roger's post about Connie Francis plaintiff voice, Where The Boys Are, etc.
for which notice was sent by email on 1/3/2010 7:09 PM, to subscribers of this thread:

"You are receiving this email because you are watching the topic, "My New MP3 Music" at Shania Twain Centre. This topic has received a reply since your last visit. You can use the following link to view the replies made, no more notifications will be sent until you visit the topic."

http://www.shaniatwaincentre.com/forum/ ... 8564#48564

So somebody made a post, then deleted it.

There are familiar hooks in songs I'd like to save and use for posting, similar to the way people quote old sayings. I remember one that would apply to this situation of the missing post. The song, I believe, was called "Who Wrote the Book of Love". And the hook is "I WONDER WHO. . .," followed by a conspicuous pause.

I was the one! I could not get the post to go thru. It was kind of long and I was frustrated. I then tried again with a short nonsense reply to your post and it went thru - I then tried to edit it to include the long real reply and it would not go thru either! I finally deleted the nonsense response. Let's see if this goes thru today.

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Roger this is her site: http://www.conniefrancis.com/

I couldn't find any recent stats, but she had sold 35 million world-wide by 1967 and has released over 70 albums to date according to this site: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am ... 34ba3ng~T1

She has always been one of my favs too Roger.

Steve

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Thanks for connecting the dots Bob. Sorry about your difficulties and appreciate your effort to contribute. I usually type my replies in notepad if they're gonna be more than a sentence or 2; then copy and paste when I'm done. That reduces my posting probs and frustrations about 95%.

It also lets me see what I'm responding to. Sometimes I need to reread the prior posts. I often am overly eager, to finish reading and start responding. That causes me to overlook things initially.

I wonder why the need to express, is stronger than the need to listen, so much of the time. And I sometimes wonder the impact of the outcome.

There are also many songs are my favourite, actually The Beatles , i love them very much , their song are so classical !

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