Connie Francis did Disco???

[srg]

On a recent post I found out Connie Francis had Disco product back in 1978...I absolutely LOVE her voice ("Malaguena", "Time Alone Will Tell", her Italian-sung stuff are phenomenal- the lady CAN SING!)...now: where do I find "Where The Boys Are" 1978 disco version? Did she have other disco songs? Availability on CD??

[JussiK]

I found mine from the net store recently, and the copy is an Australian RCA label pressing. The 12" kicks off with a great 60's style intro and turns into a five-minute-something disco poperetta with a Wing and a Prayer-type sound and a rhythmic structure that must have sounded hopelessly dated in 1978, the year of it's realese. Now of course the record comes across as totally charming. Also, the b-side is a big surprise - how on earth did they think to do a version of the Israeli entry to the Eurovision song contest of 1978 ?

[remicks]

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What a GREAT idea for a disco remake....... where the boys are .......

Where the Boys Are (1960) is an American coming-of-age comedy film, written by George Wells based on the novel by Glendon Swarthout, about four Midwestern college co-eds who spend spring break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The title song "Where the Boys Are" was sung by Connie Francis, who also co-starred in a supporting role. The film was aimed at the teen market, featuring sun, sand and romance. Released in the wintertime, it inspired thousands of additional American college students to head to Fort Lauderdale for their annual spring break.
Where the Boys Are was one of the first teen films to explore adolescent sexuality and the changing sexual morals and attitudes among American college youth.


The kind of cool modern jazz (or west coast jazz) popularized by such acts as Dave Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan, and Chico Hamilton, then in the vanguard of the college music market, features in a number of scenes with Basil. Called "dialectic jazz" in the film, the original compositions were by Pete Rugolo.[1]
MGM had bolstered the film's success potential by giving a large role to Connie Francis, the top American female recording star and a member of the MGM Records roster. Francis had solicited the services of Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield, who had written hit songs for her, to write original material for her to perform on the film's soundtrack including a "Where the Boys Are" title song. Sedaka and Greenfield wrote two potential title songs for the film, but producer Joe Pasternak passed over the song Francis and the songwriting duo preferred in favor of a lush '50s style movie theme. Francis recorded the song on 18 October 1960 in a New York City recording session with Stan Applebaum arranging and conducting.[2]




The different versions of the track would provide her with a #1 hit in some fifteen countries. "Where the Boys Are" was comparatively less successful in the English speaking world: its US peak was #4 while the track peaked on both the UK and Australian charts at #5

too bad the remake wasn't done in a more attractively contemporary way .....like jussi says - this is likable now , but was way too dated in its style by 1978- ....

. Also, the b-side is a big surprise - how on earth did they think to do a version of the Israeli entry to the Eurovision song contest of 1978 ?

well , it was the contest's winning song for that year ! (so says wiki)