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EU-only . By the early 1960s, not only was Connie Francis established as the most successful female singer in the world, she was easily the most prolific, cutting an average of six LPs and four or five singles per year. Many of her albums were themed towards specific markets, and in 1959 she released her first LP of dedicated Country & Western material, Country & Western Golden Hits, which was essentially a collection of covers of recent Country hits. It was sufficiently successful that in 1962 she recorded a second similarly-structured Country & Western LP, Country Music Connie Style, on which she was backed by full Nashville InchAInch Team, including Floyd Cramer, Grady Martin, Buddy Harman, Jerry Kennedy, Boots Randolph, Harold Bradley and Bob Moore. These two albums provide the basis for this compilation, which is augmented by a further half-dozen similarly-styled sides, including a couple of her million-selling singles, 'Everybody's Somebody's Fool' and 'Second-Hand Love' (the latter, perhaps her quintessential Countrypolitan recording); a pair of unissued rarities, 'On The Outside Looking In' and 'No One Ever Sends Me Roses'; and two further Nashville sides, 'Come On Jerry' and 'Careless Love', which appeared on her Sings Folk Song Favorites LP. Although much of Connie's extensive back catalog has been reissued over the years, several of the sides featured herein have never previously appeared on CD. Album Tracks 1. Singing the Blues 2. Tennessee Waltz 3. Young Love 4. Your Cheating Heart 5. Bye Bye Love 6. Peace in the Valley 7. My Special Angel 8. Hearts of Stone 9. Half As Much 10. Cold Cold Heart 11. Let Me Go Lover 12. Anytime 13. I Really Don't Want to Know 14. Oh Lonesome Me 15. I Fall to Pieces 16. Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You) 17. I Walk the Line 18. He Thinks I Still Care 19. She'll Have to Go 20. I'm
