Francis was an interesting singer who felt comfortable in different musical settings and who had a respectable number of hits, some of them during the early years of rock'n'roll, which is one of the reasons why I don't understand why she hasn't been inducted into that musical style's Hall of Fame. Requescat in pace.

P.S.: It's incredible how things play out sometimes in unexpected ways. In the past few months, a recording Francis didn't even remember making, the B side "Pretty Little Baby," has become viral on social media because countless influencers used the song and sampled it. Francis, who wasn't aware of what "becoming viral" means, was with us long enough to realize that much younger generations on social media really enjoy her old song. I'm sure she must've been surprised and delighted!

Strangely enough i never considered Connie Francis a rock and roll singer Anton i always considered her a singer who sang popular songs as well as up tempo numbers and country flavored songs but i don't think her voice rocked the same way as Brenda Lee and Wanda Jackson's did i tended to think of her as female equivalent of Pat Boone who also had a string hits during the later part of the 1950s and early 1960s.

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Sadly Connie Francis never made another strong rocker in the vein of "Stupid Cupid" and "Lipstick On Your Collar" "Robot Man" which reached number 2 in the UK charts in 1960 as a double A side with the ballad "Mama" was a rather pedestrian rocker which Connie herself apparently detested also "Baby Roo" in 1961 I also found rather lame.

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