Interviewed, Francis said she didn't even remember recording the song, but, listening to it now, she pronounced it "cute." I remember when that kind of thing was the current music... and also later when it was overwhelmed by The Beatles and everything else that made the mid-1960s so great to those of us who were young at that time. I don't like any current music enough to have a valid opinion, but it is imposed on me occasionally, enough to make me think that these kids today could have a fantastic time discovering the poppy fluff that we Boomers scorned.
30 मई 2025
"Sixty-four years ago, Connie Francis recorded 'Pretty Little Baby' as one of dozens of songs in a marathon recording session..."
"... that yielded three albums within two weeks. It did not, at the time, feel like a song that had the makings of a hit, so it landed on the B-side of the 1962 single... that was released in Britain. Since then, it was more or less overlooked. Then came TikTok... Over the last few weeks, 'Pretty Little Baby' has been trending on the social media app — it has been featured as the sound in more than 600,000 TikTok posts and soared to top spots in Spotify’s Viral 50 global and U.S. lists — bolstered by celebrities and influencers, like Nara Smith, Kylie Jenner, and Kim Kardashian and her daughter North, who have posted videos of themselves lip-syncing to it. The ABBA singer Agnetha Fältskog used the song for a clip on TikTok in which she said Ms. Francis had long been her favorite singer...."
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Who's sorry now...
She's seen difficult times and good for her if she can benefit from the recent attention.
She has a pleasant voice, but did all pop music from that era sound like it was written for 7-year-olds? I'm imagining a mashup with "Baby Shark" ("Pretty Little Baby Shark"?) that could be used as a torture device.
Ah well everybody's somebody's fool. I enjoyed most of the Connie Francis songs back in the day--and I'd still take a Connie Francis song over say the latest hip hop gangsta rap record. Ms. Francis, a nice Italian girl from Newark ,has sold gazillions of records and sang many of her songs in multiple languages.
And then there's this.
I knew little about her until I saw The Flight of the Phoenix; I mean the good one starring the best ensemble cast ever assembled. Connie Francis sang an Italian song called Senza Fine which moves a terribly injured young man to suicide in grief for his dying (and likely already deceased) wife.
Yeah, its a cute little song. Pleasant and sweet. And very aimed at young girls. Differences in musical taste seem to be in-grained and influenced by sex, education, and age. Why do some people like Classical while others prefer rap? WHy do some dislike CW but like Jazz? Why do some never stop loving the pop music they heard at 10, 14, 20?
R&R grated on the ears of the older generation, but now we all love it. wonder why?
I finally deciphered the odd comment that I read constantly on Youtube when replaying Old songs. "I wish I'd been born when X song or X singer did this". A puzzling comment since they can listen to it NOW. But i suppose they mean hear the singer LIVE at a concert. Which very few people could or did. Doris day and Sinatra were super popular in the 40s/50s/60s - how many heard them live in concert? 1 percent maybe.
Younger gens need to rediscover singers like Francis. Peggy Lee, Julie London, etc.. I think as current music is becoming more homogenised, people will eventually crave difference and find it in the past.
I remember the I Love Lucy show reruns having Rudy Valee on as a guest, in the 1960s when I was but a wee lad, and his being roundly applauded by the audience, but Google tells me that show originally aired in 1957. His first movie was 1929, as was his first hit song. So that was less than 30 years after he became famous. Connie Francis has more than double that time between recording and today's retro fame.
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