CONNIE FRANCIS THE ITALIAN AMERICAN COLLECTION VOL. 1

Connie Francis Concetta Maria Franconero, December 12, 1937, born into an ItalianAmerican family, in an Italian neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey. Frank Sinatra and Connie Francis were born on the same day 23 years apart, but they remain together as a part of NJ music history forever. Growing up in an ItalianAmerican household, we celebrated two sacred One was The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit, the other was Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Tony It seems their music was always playing somewhere in the ItalianAmerican community, The undisputed female counterpart to those guys was Connie Francis. The ItalianAmericans majority hailed largely from central and southern parts of Italy, where They settled in major urban centers like New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Boston and San Francisco. The rich musical heritage that the Italian immigrants brought with them has had a major impact on shaping United States musical culture as a whole;