Connie Francis en El Patio

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Connie Francis en El Patio
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Released1964
RecordedDecember 1960 – February 1964
Genre Pop
Label MGM
Producer Danny Davis and others

Connie Francis en El Patio is a 12" studio album recorded by American pop singer Connie Francis. The track listing consist of a compilation of Francis' most successful Spanish language pop recordings released between 1960 and 1964.

Contents

The album was released in Mexico in 1965 and is one of Francis' rarest albums to find because only a very limited quantity of copies were released.

Track listing

Side A

#TitleSongwriterLength
1."Gracias"Augusto Alguerro2.22
2."Detrás del amor (Follow the boys)"Ted Murry, Benny Davis 2.43
3."Donde hay chicos (Where the boys are)" Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield 2.29
4."Qué sola estoy (I'm so alone)"Gary Geld3.01
5."Tanto control (Too many rules)"Don Stirlin, Gary Temkin2.26
6."Esta es mi noche (Tonight's my night)"Ted Murry, Benny Davis 2.37

Side B

#TitleSongwriterLength
1."Invierno triste azul (Blue Winter)"Ben Raleigh, John Gluck, jr2.26
2."Tú otro amor (Your Other Love)" Claus Ogerman, Ben Raleigh2.20
3."El novio de otra (Someone else's boy)"Athina Hosey, Hal Gordon2.43
4."Mister Twister" (Spanish Version) Eddie Curtis 2.16
5."Dime que pasó (Many Tears Ago)" Winfield Scott 1.58
6."Danke schön" (Spanish version) Bert Kaempfert, Kurt Schwabach, Milt Gabler 2.42

NOTE: As far as cover versions of Francis' US hits are listed, only the songwriters of the original English-language versions are given; the Spanish lyricists are unknown.

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