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Best of Frank Ifield:
I Remember You is my all time favorite song. I just bought the CD, and was delighted to hear so many great classic songs on one CD. Frank Ifield is extremely versatile. An English Australian singing what appears to be American Country. I will wear this one out!

Yes "a few kisses ago......I remember you":
One big hit in America "I Remember You", and that is more then enough for anyone to want this CD. Frank Ifield was a little before the Beatles so he just had his talent to ride on not the whole British Invasion.... Sounds like early American Country music. Well worth a listen.

Frank Ifield:
Not really a review but I am looking for Frank Ifields Tale of Two Cities Nashville-London Prodiced inNashville Tenn. around 1962. Thanks whatever you can do.

British Pop Star:
This is yet one more example - among many - of a "Best Of" compilation that leaves off far too many legitimate hits to be given a rating higher than 3 stars. Born on November 30, 1936 in Coventry, Ifielde was raised in Australia before returning to the U.K. at age 23. His biggest hit by far, a # 1 British hit and distributed on this side of the Atlantic by Vee-Jay, was I Remember You which peaked at # 5 in October 1962. What sold it more than anything else was the falsetto, which he used on all of his subsequent discs, even to the point of emulating the old Country star Elton Britt by breaking into a yodel here and there. He followed that with the old Hank Williams' hit, Lovesick Blues, another # 1 in Blighty but just missing the Top 40 here, topping off at # 44 in January 1963. That October he was back with another oldie, I'm Confessin' (That I Love You), which again reached # 1 "over there" but could only manage a # 58 here. That is missing from this compilation, as is his last North American charter Please, which leveled off here at # 71 in January 1964. Also omitted is another British # 1, a re-make of the Gogi Grant hit The Wayward Wind. While the man could certainly carry a nice tune, it seems his stage presence was wooden, as was his acting career which began -and ended - in 1965 with the Australian film Up Jumped A Swagman. Wait for someone to come up with a definitive collection of all his hits, and if you really want I Remember You, I suggest you search it out on a multi-artist compilation.

• I Remember You
• Long Gone Lonesome Blues
• Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye
• Singing the Blues
• Gonna Find Me a Bluebird
• Call Her Your Sweetheart
• No One Will Ever Know
• Good Morning Dear
• Oh, Such a Stranger
• Lovesick Blues
• I Love You Because
• So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)