Description
DESCRIPTION
EU-only collection. In what has been a truly remarkable life and career, multi-talented Connie Stevens started out as an actress and singer, before going on to become a successful Broadway star, business tycoon, movie director, public servant and philanthropist. She emerged as an actress in the late '50's, establishing herself as a household name in the US via her role as Cricket Blake in the ABC TV series Hawaiian Eye, concurrent with which she launched a briefly successful secondary career as a jazz-tinged pop singer. This compilation is the first comprehensive overview of Connie's early singing career, presenting the A and B-sides of her singles and the standout tracks from her four LPs. Includes her two signature million-sellers, 'Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb)' (a duet with Edd 'Kookie' Byrnes) and the Popcorn classic 'Sixteen Reasons'. Also includes her subsequent hits 'Too Young To Go Steady', 'Why'd You Wanna Make Me Cry', 'Mr. Songwriter', 'Hey Good Lookin', and collectors' items like her German language Euro-hit 'La Le Lu', and the unreleased 'Why Can't He Care For Me'. Now in her mid-70s, Connie still occasionally sings at charity and benefit events, or for television specials, although for the past 30 years she has concentrated rather more on running her cosmetics empire, Forever Spring.
TracksCredits
1 Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb)
2 Why Do I Cry for Joey?
3 Apollo
4 Sixteen Reasons
5 Little Sister
6 Too Young to Go Steady
7 A Little Kiss Is a Kiss, Is a Kiss
8 Make Believe Lover
9 And This Is Mine
10 If You Don't, Somebody Else Will
11 The Greenwood Tree
12 La Le Lu
13 Man Soil Sich So Schnell Nicht Uberliebe
14 Why'd You Wanna Make Me Cry
15 Just One Kiss
16 Mr. Songwriter
17 I Couldn't Say No
18 Hey Good Lookin'
19 Nobody's Lonesome for Me
20 Why Can't He Care for Me
21 Why Try to Change Me Now?
22 On a Slow Boat to China
23 Too Young
24 Love of the Month Club
25 Lulu's Back in Town
26 Let's Do It
27 My Own True Love
28 Your Cheatin' Heart
29 You Win Again
30 Settin' the Woods on Fire
31 Cold, Cold Heart
32 Honky Tonkin'
33 May You Never Be Alone
