Heartaches By the Number - Connie Francis
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Country Music - Connie Style, 1962
Written by Harlan Howard
Connie Francis died yesterday. I happened upon a great song of hers, "Pretty Little Baby," and put it on this blog in 2023 (before it, for whatever reason, became a TikTok trend). This is a very typical country heartbreak song, pledging an undying yet unrequited love ("Yes, I've got heartaches by the number / A love that I can't win / But the day that I stop counting / That's the day my world will end"). Francis' voice conveys a lot of emotional depth into her version. Maybe the lyric is an appropriate send-off for Francis, one of the great voices in modern music.
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