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''Connie Francis Sings Italian Favorites'' is a studio album recorded by American singer and entertainer Connie Francis. ==Background== The album consists of traditional Italian and Neapolitan songs (e. g. ''Santa Lucia'') as well as then-current contemporary songs like ''Volare (Nel blu dipinto di blu)'' or ''Piove'' which both had risen to international fame after being Italy's entries to the Eurovision Song Contests of 1958 and 1959. ''Connie Francis Sings Italian Favorites'' was recorded following a suggestion from Francis' father, George Franconero, sr., who played an active part in directing Francis' career. He had realized that Francis' would have to make a timely transition from the youth-oriented Rock 'n' Roll music to adult contemporary music if she wanted to pursue a successful longterm career in music.〔Connie Francis: ''Who's sorry now'', St. Martin's Press, London 1984〕 To make the album appealing to both Italian immigrants as well as listeners not familiar with Romanic languages, Francis sang most of the songs bilingual in either Italian/English or Neapolitan/English. Only ''Volare'' and ''Piove'' are sung entirely in Italian whilst ''Torna a Surriento'' is sung entirely in Neapolitan. Francis, who didn't learn to speak Italian and Neapolitan fluently until 1962, received assistance from a Berlitz teacher to achieve the correct pronunciation of the lyrics' Italian and Neapolitan lines.〔as above〕 The album was recorded between August 22 and 27, 1959, at EMI's famous Abbey Road Studios in London〔Ron Roberts: ''Connie Francis Discography 1955–1975''〕 under the musical direction of Tony Osborne〔William Ruhlmann: ''Connie Francis 1955–1959'', supplement to 5 CD Boxed Set White Sox, Pink Lipstick… and Stupid Cupid, Bear Family Records BCD 16 616 EI, Hambergen (Germany) 1993〕 and was released in November 1959. Soon afterwards it entered the album charts where it remained for 81 weeks, peaking at # 4. It remains to this day as Francis' most successful album release.〔Connie Francis: ''Souvenirs'', Booklet of 4-CD-Box, Polydor 1996, Cat.-No. 314 533 382-2〕 Following the success of ''Connie Francis sings Italian Favorites'', Francis recorded seven more albums of "Favorites" between 1960 and 1964, including Jewish, German and Irish Favorites, among others. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Connie Francis Sings Italian Favorites」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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