With a string of worldwide hits like Stupid Cupid, Who's Sorry Now and
Heartaches, Connie Francis was one of America's greatest early pop stars. Her
yearning voice caught the imagination of pop fans as she sold huge amounts of
records in the late 1950s and early 1960s, bridging the rock'n'roll and beat
boom eras. From Italian parentage, she performed regularly at talent shows in
Newark, New Jersey, winning a spot on the NBC variety show Startime Kids between
1953 and 1955. It led to a contract with MGM and her first single, Freddy. It
flopped - as did all her subsequent singles -...