Born Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero, with Italian ancestry, Connie Francis was the first woman in history to top the Billboard 100 with Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool in June 1960. Her popularity ...
Connie Francis, the angelic-voiced singer who was one of the biggest recording stars of the late 1950s and early 1960s, has died. She was 87. Her friend and publicist, Ron Roberts, announced the ...