The Exciting Connie Francis
After her breakthrough in early 1958 with her single "Who's Sorry Now?", a rock 'n' roll oriented version of the 1923 standard, and a subsequent album of the same title, Francis chose to take a more adult approach to her second album. For "The Exciting Connie Francis", she chose twelve American standards. Francis clearly marked the album as a concept album by dividing it into two sections with different moods: Side A is filled with songs differing between mid-tempo and up-tempo, while Side B consists solely of ballads.
Do the Twist (Connie Francis album)
For her own Twist album, Francis recorded a total of seventeen songs, most of them written by Eddie Curtis who had also written Francis' 1959 recording "You're Gonna Miss Me". Most of his works for this album were new songs, the exception being "Mommy, You're Daughter's Fallin' in Love", which used the tune of Winfield Scott's "Tweedlee Dee". Here, Curtis only provided new lyrics.