Spanish Nights and You

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"Spanish Nights and You"
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Single by Connie Francis
B-side "Games That Lovers Play"
ReleasedOctober 1966
Genre Vocal
Length2:20
Label MGM
13610
Songwriters Wandra Merrell Brown, Ray Allen
Producers Alan Lorber, Pete Spargo
Connie Francis singles chronology
"So Nice (Summer Samba)"
(1966)		"Spanish Nights and You"
(1966)		"Another Page"
(1967)

"Spanish Nights and You" is a song written by Wandra Merrell Brown and Ray Allen and most notably performed by Connie Francis. [1]

Contents

Connie Franics version

Release and reception

"Spanish Nights and You" was released as a seven-inch single in October 1966 by MGM Records. [2] It was backed by a James Last composed song, [3] "Games That Lovers Play" on the B-side, [2] which didn't see notable album inclusions. Both tracks were arranged by Alan Lorber and produced by him and Pete Spargo. [2]

Billboard magazine predicted that the single would reach the top 60 in the Hot 100 and called the song an "Intriguing rhythmic ballad", also calling it a "Top Francis performance" and said that it "has the ingredients of the Martino winner, 'Spanish Eyes'". [4]

Record World gave the single four stars and said that it is a "Pretty and romantic Latin flavored tune Connie duets with herself", and also stated that "Action [is] due". [5]

Cashbox reviewed the single in late October and stated that "Those lovely tones and that crying voice that could only belong to Connie Francis should get the lark loads of action with this wonderful tune titled 'Spanish Nights And You.'" Continuing that "The sweeping, Latinized ork backing Connie’s multilingual reading gives the side a vast and varied appeal. The magazine also noted that the flip, "Games That Lovers Play" is a "nice reading of the oft cut ditty." [3]

Chart performance

In 1966, the track reached No. 15 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart [6] and marked her return to the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it reached No. 99. [7] In Cashbox the single was ranked higher, peaking at No. 81 on the magazine's Top 100 Singles chart. [8] The single wouldn't break into Record World's Top 100 Pops chart, instead reaching No. 2 on their Up-Coming Singles chart, which acted as a fifty song extension of the main chart. [9]

Foreign release

The song was released in South Africa with the A and B-side being switched. The single reached No. 17 on the nation's charts. [10]

Track listing

7" vinyl single [2] [3]

References

  1. ↑ Connie Francis, "Spanish Nights and You" Single Release Retrieved May 6, 2023
  2. 1 2 3 4 Francis, Connie (October 1966). ""Spanish Nights and You"/"Games That Lovers Play" (7" vinyl single)". MGM Records . 13610.
  3. 1 2 3 Cashbox magazine, October 22, 1966. Record Reviews, The Cashbox Pick of the Week
  4. ↑ Billboard magazine, "Spotlights - Predicted to reach the top 60 of the Hot 100 Chart". October 15, 1966, page 16.
  5. ↑ Record World magazine, October 15, 1966. Singles Reviews, "Four Stars", page 6.
  6. ↑ "Connie Francis – Adult Contemporary". Billboard. Retrieved 2025-07-27.
  7. ↑ Connie Francis, "Spanish Nights and You" Chart Positions Retrieved May 6, 2023
  8. ↑ Downey, Pat; Albert, George; Hoffman, Frank (1994). Cash Box Pop Singles Charts, 1950–1993. Englewood, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited, Inc. pp. 129–130. ISBN   1563083167.
  9. ↑ "Record World, Up-Coming Singles chart" (PDF). Record World . Vol. 21, no. 1016. November 26, 1966. p. 22. Retrieved December 28, 2025– via worldradiohistory.com.
  10. ↑ "SA Charts 1965–March 1989" . Retrieved 1 September 2018.
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