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Fellow the boys

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 Follow the Boys is a 1963 song that was used as the theme song to the 1963 comedy film of the same name and was also a Top 20 hit for Connie Francis.
Three different versions of the song exist.
The first version was recorded on June 30, 1962 during the shooting of the on-location scenes in Italy, where Francis overdubbed her vocals to a playback which had been pre-recorded under the direction of Geoff Love at EMI’s Abbey Road Studios in London. This version was used for the opening and closing credits of the film.
The second recording of the “Follow the Boys” theme song was conducted by LeRoy Holmes, a veteran of the classic MGM musicals who by 1963 had left that studio to compose for United Artists films; however he returned to MGM to work with Francis whose 1958 hit “Stupid Cupid” he’d conducted. The recording took place on September 27, 1962. This version was released on the original MGM Records Single.
The third recording was recorded on January 10, 1963. This version used the original September 1962 playback with Francis overdubbing new vocals. This version was released on the album “Follow the Boys” (MGM Records SE-4123), which featured the film’s songs on the A-Side and a selection of Italian-flavored songs to fit the movie’s setting on the B-Side although they didn’t appear in the actual movie.
“Follow the Boys” was stylistically reminiscent of the hit theme song from Where the Boys Are written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield but was in fact written by Benny Davis and Ted Murry (pseudonym for Murray Mencher) the composers of Francis 1962 #1 “Don’t Break the Heart That Loves You”.
Released in February 1963, “Follow the Boys” reached #17 that April on the Billboard Hot 100 where it would be Francis’ final Top 20 entry. The song was markedly more successful as ranked by Cash Box spending two weeks at #11.

By Connie Francis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoDwlws0Mdg

Lyrics

I’ll follow the boys, wherever they goI’ll follow the boys, ’cause in my heart I knowI know that somewhere, somewhere along the wayI’ll find my love, my own true love, somedayAnd there’ll be no place too far, no ocean too wideWherever he goes, I’ll be right by his sideI’ll follow the boys, and wait until the timeTill that boy that I’m following is mineThere’ll be no place too far, no ocean too wideWherever he goes, I’ll be right by his sideSo I’ll follow the boys, and wait until the timeTill that wonderful boy that I’m following is mine