Frank is still very much a viable voice in England, where he was voted the “Best British Male Vocalist of the Year” for both 19 at the International Country Music Awards at Wembley. Meanwhile, lfield toured the remainder of the world, playing concerts and cabarets. Although he did manage to place three other singles on the Hot 100 and four more on the C & W charts, not one could respark the nation’s interest. alone.įrank’s stateside impact vanished as rapidly as the changing of the seasons. Originally sung by Dorothy Lamour in the movie The Fleets In.more. Before being mothballed, lfield’s disk became the first record to sell a million copies in the U.K. Frank Ifield - I Remember You 911,675 views Huge hit for Frank Ifield in 1962. The only one of the trilogy to click in the States was “I Remember You,” a remake of the Jimmy Dorsey hit from the Dorothy Lamour/Helen O’Connell flick The Fleet Is In (1942). Three of these 45s–“l Remember You,” “Lovesick Blues,” and “The Wayward Wind”–topped the British listings according to New Music Express, this was a first in British pop history. For the next six years, Frank could do little wrong: 15 singles charted in England. His countrified cover version of Carl Dobkins, Jr.’s “Lucky Devil” established him in 1960. Provided to YouTube by Parlophone UKI Remember You Frank IfieldThe Best Of The EMI Years 1962 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Compan圜omposer. Seeking to broaden his realm of influence, Ifield moved back to England in 1959, where under the tutelage of Norrie Paramor, he was quickly signed to Columbia Records. By the end of his teen years, Frank lfield was reported to be the hottest vocal item in Tasmania, New Zealand, and Australia. Within a year, Frankie was making TV appearances and had recorded his first single, “Did You See My Daddy Over There?” More than 40 other disks were to follow over the next half-decade or so. It was in Sydney that he made his debut as a singer in 1950 at the Hornsby Pacific Theatre. I Remember You by Frank Ifield Written by Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger Language English Released on I Remember You Single June 1962 I Remember You Single July 1962 I Remember You Album 1962 Chart placings 5 in United States Comments Nr 5 US (Vee-Jay) / Nr 1 UK (Columbia). 30, 1937, Coventry, England) was a “spruker,” a “roll over roll over,” or what we in the Far West might call a “come-on man.” His earliest of jobs, in other words, was to get people to lay their money down for traveling tent shows and circuses.įrank’s dad was an inventor and design engineer, and although the family was originally from England, most of Frank’s youth was spent in Australia. “When I was 13, I worked with a fantastic old fellow called Big Chief Little Wolf, who taught me all the intricacies of show business in the old-fashioned manner,” Ifield told Sheila Tracy, author of Who’s Who in Popular Music in Great Britain. PLACE_LINK_HERE?wmode=transparent” width=”” height=”350″ >įRANK IFIELD “I REMEMBER YOU” (Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger) Vee-Jay 457 No.
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