---------- From: Alan Westrope[SMTP:awestrop at crl.com] . I'm in the other camp, which holds that the name is derived exclusively from Artie Shaw's tune, pronounced FRENN ess see. >>>>>Except in the refrain, of course, where the last syllable gets the stress. "Who wouldn't say freneSI?" (the tune demands it) Appropos of nothing. P.