Rock 'n' Roll Million Sellers

Rock 'n' Roll Million Sellers
Studio album by Connie Francis
Released November 1959
Recorded April 15, 1959
September 8 – 9, 1969
September 25, 1969
Genre Pop
Label MGM Records
E-3794(mono)/SE-3794 (stereo)
Producer Ray Ellis
Connie Francis chronology
Connie's Greatest Hits
1959		 Rock 'n' Roll Million Sellers
(1959)		 Country & Western – Golden Hits (1959)
Singles from Rock 'n' Roll Million Sellers
  1. "Lipstick on Your Collar"
    Released: May 1959

Rock 'n' Roll Million Sellers is studio album recorded by U. S. Entertainer Connie Francis.

The album is a tribute to the then-current Rock 'n' Roll-stars of the era, such as Elvis Presley and Fats Domino. The album's only original recording was Lipstick on Your Collar which had been a # 7 for Francis in the summer of 1959.

Contents

Track listing

Side A

# Title Songwriter Length Remark
1. "Heartbreak Hotel" Mae Boren Axton, Thomas Durden, Elvis Presley 2.05 -
2. "Tweedlee Dee" Winfield Scott 2.33 -
3. "I Almost Lost My Mind" Ivory Joe Hunter 2.39 -
4a. "I Hear You Knockin'" Dave Bartholomew, Pearl King 2.24 on stereo pressings only[1]
4b. "I Hear You Knockin'" Dave Bartholomew, Pearl King 2.20 alternate take
on mono pressings only[2]
5. "Just a Dream" Jimmy Clanton 2.57
6a. "Don't Be Cruel" Otis Blackwell, Elvis Presley 1.45 on stereo pressings only[3]
6b. "Don't Be Cruel" Otis Blackwell, Elvis Presley 1.42 alternate take
on mono pressings only[4]

Side B

# Title Songwriter Length Remark
1. "Lipstick on Your Collar" George Goehring, Edna Lewis 2.20 -
2. "Sincerely" Harvey Fuqua, Alan Freed 2.54 -
3. "Ain't That a Shame" Fats Domino, Dave Bartholomew 2.15 -
4. "Silhouettes" Bob Crewe, Frank Slay 2.48 -
5. "I'm Walkin'" Fats Domino, Dave Bartholomew 2.02 -
6. "It's Only Make Believe" Conway Twitty, Jack Nance 2.33 -

Not included songs from the sessions

# Title Songwriter Length Remark
1. "Earth Angel" Curtis Williams, Jesse Belvin, Gaynel Hodge 3.12 unreleased until 1993[5]
2. "Frankie" Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield 2.33 released on MGM Records Single K 12792 and eventually included on "Connie's Greatest Hits"
3. "Oh, Frankie" Ginger Lenny 2.25 unreleased until 1988[6]
4. "Plenty Good Lovin'" Connie Francis 2.03 released on MGM Records Single K 12824 and eventually included on "Connie's Greatest Hits"
5. "You're Gonna Miss Me" Eddie Curtis 2.43 released on MGM Records Single K 12824 and eventually included on "Connie's Greatest Hits"

References

  1. ^ Ron Roberts: Connie Francis Discography 1955 – 1973, Fan Club Project of 1973
  2. ^ as above
  3. ^ as above
  4. ^ as above
  5. ^ 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
  6. ^ as above
Connie Francis
U. S. albums
Who's Sorry Now?  • The Exciting Connie Francis  • My Thanks To You  • Connie Francis sings Italian Favorites  • Christmas In My Heart  • Connie's Greatest Hits  • Rock 'n' Roll Million Sellers  • Country & Western - Golden Hits  • Connie Francis sings Fun Songs For Children  • One For The Boys  • Connie Francis sings Spanish And Latin American Favorites  • Connie Francis sings Jewish Favorites  • Songs to a Swinging Band  • More Greatest Hits  • Connie Francis sings "Never on Sunday"  • Connie Francis sings Folk Song Favorites  • Connie Francis sings Irish Favorites  • Connie Francis sings Modern Italian Hits  • Connie Francis sings Award Winning Motion Picture Hits  • Greatest American Waltzes  • In The Summer Of His Years  • Connie Francis sings German Favorites  • Connie Francis and Hank Williams, Jr. sing Great Country Favorites  • Movie Greats Of The 60s  • Connie's Christmas  • Connie Francis and The Kids Next Door  • Love, Italian Style  • Happiness - Connie Francis On Broadway Today  • Grandes Exitos del Cine de los Años 60  • Connie & Clyde – Hit Songs of the 30s  • Connie Francis sings Bacharach & David  • Connie Francis sings The Songs of Les Reed
International albums
U. S. singles
Who's Sorry Now?  • Stupid Cupid/Carolina Moon  • Fallin'/Happy Days and Lonely Nights  • I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)  • My Happiness  • You Always Hurt the One You Love  • If I Didn't Care  • Lipstick on Your Collar  • Among My Souvenirs/God Bless America  • Mama  • Everybody's Somebody's Fool  • My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own/Malagueña  • Where the Boys Are  • Breakin' in a Brand New Broken Heart/Someone Else's Boy  • Together  • When the Boy in Your Arms (Is the Boy in Your Heart)  • Don't Break the Heart That Loves You  • Vacation  • He Thinks I Still Care  • I'm Gonna Be Warm This Winter/Al di là  • If My Pillow Could Talk  • In the Summer of His Years  • Be Anything (but Be Mine)  • Jealous Heart  • Love Is Me, Love Is You  • So Nice (Summer Samba)  • My Heart Cries for You  • Lonely Again  • I Don't Wanna Play House
International singles
Notable songs
Filmography
Related topics
Book:Connie Francis