Funny I grew up listening to George Jones, Waylon, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, and Patsy Cline, those popular in the 60’s. But I never remember hearing this woman before; especially as a “star”. But when I recently stumbled on to one of her songs called, “”Once a Day”, which I had recorded on XM radio 10 years ago; I realized that she was way under rated for her time. Her voice is up there in the top 5 female singers, I would have to say! And I just heard her sing this “Million and One” song and I’m floored! I was born in 1959 by the way, so you know where I’m coming from!🤪
CONNIE is such a precious Christian Lady and I could simply sit and listen too her all day❤🎉God Bless You Sweet Connie🎉❤ this is so Beautiful, but then again Everyone you do is Beautiful! Love and Prayers to a Very Special Christian Lady and My Very Favorite Singer😊🙏❤🎉
I Too Agree This is such a Beautiful song Skeeter sung and my Favorite by her❤ and now it's even more of a Favorite as Sweet Connie had did her Honor of Skeeter and Connie certaintly gives It another Her precious All and All Great AND Breath taking song once again❤Thank You Sweet Connie 🙏for doing your Friend Very Proud❤🙏 in this, Again Beautiful.Ole Memory, Amazing song! ❤God Bless You Precious and such Very Talented Lady 😊and Always No1❤🎉
This was a surprise - Connie's 1969 cover of "Seattle" is one of my top five performances by her outside of her own hits and I've played it regularly for decades. "Seattle" was the theme song for the short-lived albeit terrific drama tv series HERE COME THE BRIDES and a pop hit for Perry Como at the time. I think Connie is the only country artist who ever recorded it though it screams COUNTRY to me. Happy to see it must be one of her favorite songs too for her to rerecord it again - as good as her recording done 55 years ago.
Widely acknowledged as one of the greatest songs of the 20th century in any genre and so proud our beloved country great Skeeter Davis was the one that made it famous. Connie had sung this on Marty's tv show and glad to hear she's now recorded it. This Skeeter classic must have been covered by over 50 famous singers - from Loretta Lynn to Susan Boyle to Herman's Hermits to Johnny Mathis and certainly Connie's take on her late friend's classic is one of the very best of the bunch.
Connie buffs know she first recorded this back in the 1960's for her CONNIE IN THE COUNTRY album and she still sings it as a great today as she did back then. I've always thought this was one of the best songs Loretta ever know and obviously Connie does as well to record it again. Conway Twitty also did it in one of his first country albums and I think there were other covers, impressive as this song was never a single release for Loretta.
Written by one of the greatest country songwriters ever, Miss Liz Anderson, with a little assist from her husband Casey. Of course, as most fans know they were Lynn Anderson's parents. Liz and Connie were very good friends as longtime fellow RCA artists and Connie recorded several other songs Liz wrote back then including "Ride Ride Ride", "FIve Fingers to Spare", and "Only for Me". Connie is still in amazing voice - she's past 80 and sounds as great as she did 50 years ago!
So Beautiful Connie! What a True Country Music's Legend and Such a Sweet Smiling Rolls Royce of Country Music! Happy for you and your Sweet Producer😊❤️🙏God Bless You Both!!💕🙏❤️
HELLO SWEET AND PRECIOUS TALENTED SINGER AND SHE IS STILL THE BEST THERE IS IN COUNTRY MUSIC AND I LOVE EVERY BEAUTIFUL GOSPEL SONG SHE SINGS ALSO🙏❤️😊! I HAVE LOOKED UP TO CONNIE SINCE DAY 1, AND I LOVE, RESOECT AND ADMIRE THIS PRECIOUS CHRISTIAN LADY
Connie has always said that Dottie West was her favorite girl singer of all time. Connie's version "Country Girl" does the song justice. Dottie would have pleased & proud of Connie's rendition of her song. ❤❤❤❤
It's great seeing a legend like Connie featured on Billboard with this new release. What a great classic country sound. Teach these young'ens something.
I think Marty in his production was going for a "classic folk song" saga here in this rendition like the old Carter Family songs when Sara sang some numbers written first-person in a male perspective and also in later songs like "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" which is often sung by women like Joan Baez though the lyrics clearly suggest the storyteller is male. The storyteller here is an acknowledged criminal and it would be hard for a lady like Connie to be believable in that mode so she's just singing like a vintage folk song which the song quite resembles even though it wasn't written until 1967. Liz Anderson wrote this for Merle and then for her album version she did use "he" but she changed the melody to almost a perky delivery since it does seem a problematic piece for a lady vocalist to pull off even making the narrator female but both Connie and Liz did a fine job since this, one of the ten or so greatest country songs ever in my opinion.
Nice rendition of a song about lost love. Connie to me is true country music. Enjoy her music I own. Thanks for sharing and hope her new album is enjoyed by many.❤
