| Connie Francis is among the best female recording artists of all time in terms of record sales. She was the top female vocalist of the late 50's and early 60's.
She was born Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero in 1938 in Newark, New Jersey. At age three she learned to play an accordion. She appeared on local television at age 10, on Arthur Godfrey's talent show at 11, and on the television variety show Startime for several years.
In May of 1955 she recorded her first song Freddy for MGM. It was the beginning of a long association with MGM, for whom she would record a total of 35 songs that placed in the top forty between 1958 and 1964. Connie's breakthrough hit, released in 1958 when she was 19 years old, was Who's Sorry Now?, a song that had been very popular in 1923. The song had been suggested to her by her father, a domineering figure who pushed her throughout her career.
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