Hi folks, just looking at a Connie Questell Discography >>HERE<< and noticed they have (see below) two entries with unknown titles.

Aware of the three Decca 45's she had issued, but I never knew there were other tracks... looks like there are two sessions here going by the dates, the second of which included the songs, 'Don't let it break your heart' and 'Tell me what to do' which came out Decca 31986 and 31783, and then the two unknown tracks with the date 2/4/1965, which this Discography refers to as the recording date.

Just my luck they are known and covered up! but love to find out if anybody knows about these two tracks?

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Company Matrix No.Size First Recording Date Title Primary Performer Description RoleAudio

Decca 115700 - 2/16/1965 - Give up girl - Connie Questell vocalist 

Decca 115701 - 2/16/1965 - Straighten up - Connie Questell vocalist 

Decca 115702 - 2/16/1965 - World of trouble - Connie Questell vocalist 

Decca 115703 - 2/16/1965 - The girl can't take it - Connie Questell vocalist 

Decca NA 13262 - 2/4/1965 - Don't let it break your heart - Connie Questell vocalist 

Decca NA 13263 - 2/4/1965 - Tell me what to do - Connie Questell vocalist 

Decca NA 13264 2/4/1965 [Unknown title(s) Connie Questell vocalist 

Decca NA 13265 2/4/1965 [Unknown title(s) Connie Questell vocalist 

 

43 minutes ago, Mal C said:

 

Just my luck they are known and covered up! but love to find out if anybody knows about these two tracks?

Decca NA 13264 2/4/1965 [Unknown title(s) Connie Questell vocalist 

Decca NA 13265 2/4/1965 [Unknown title(s) Connie Questell vocalist 

 

 

I wanna know

Soldier Boy

stranger things have been known 🙂

Edited March 19, 20241 yr by Simon T

“Tell me what to do” was a play originally by Ion in the 80s.

one of my favourite tracks 

I had no idea this was spun in the 8ts, that’s really good to know Alan.

Not much feedback on these two, I can't find any other conformation of these two tracks, only in this Discography, I'll keep looking, I did send the creators of this Discography an email, they are UC Santa Barbara Library, but got a response saying they could not reply to individual requests 😞

They have an interesting site for sure... anyhow if anybody can add anything to this...

 

 

Hi Mal,

You can download and listen to a good 90 minute interview with Connie and her husband, they were both in groups as teenagers. She tells you about her early group and solo recordings and the whole interview is built around life in The Bronx. I enjoyed listening to it.

https://research.library.fordham.edu/baahp_oralhist/191/

 

 

 

 

Edited March 20, 20241 yr by Alan T

I'll check that out, thanks Alan. I assume they don't go into the recording sessions outlined above, not in a way that sheds light on these two unlisted tracks....

No, nothing in detail about her Decca releases.

I wonder if I might be able to beat a path to them via Fordham research, although the interview is pretty old now...

So as a bit of Wednesday afternoon fun, I've had a few folks get in touch on PM to say is it the same singer as 'I wanna know'?  which I dismissed, but you know what, if you listen to 'Give up Girl' or "Tell Me What To Do" and 'I wanna know' there are simularities in the way the singer/s hold a note... most of Connies are mid tempo at best, so it's really hard to compare that way, but its real close 😉

 

ive made contact with Connie and will be speaking to her next week, turns out Jordan wilson spoke to her a few years back, I wonder if he was aware of therse two tracks?  I'll find out.

Malc

To be honest I don't really get it. These two unknown tracks were unreleased? But they are known and were played? Off acetates?

Any chance of some audio clips of them?

Hi Benji, they are simply listed in a discography I found, and that listing states they were songs recorded in one of two sessions connie did, but no titles as you can see.... who knows...

I'll ask Connie next week