The singer Connie Francis, better known for her 1962 success “Pretty Little Baby” and the 1961 song “Everybody’s Sombody Fool,” died at the age of 87, confirmed its manager.
“With a heavy heart and extreme sadness that I inform you about the death of my dear friend Connie Francis last night,” said his copyright and royalty manager Ron Roberts, in a publication on social networks. “I know Connie would approve that his fans are among the first to know this sad news.”
“Pretty Little Baby” became more recently a viral song in Tiktok, which Francis joined shortly after, and the 1962 song has been used in more than 17 million videos for a total of more than 27 billion visits worldwide in the application.
“I am great and excited about the huge buzz that my 1962 recording of ‘Pretty Little Baby’ is doing all over the world,” Francis said. “To think that a song that I recorded 63 years ago is to captivate new generations of audiences is really overwhelming for me.”
Connie Francis appears in this image.
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“Pretty Little baby” And other hits, “which reached its maximum point in number 111 in what was then known as the Billboard Top LPS list.
In May of this year, “Pretty Little Baby” broke into Spotify Global and Us for the first time.
Francis was born to Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero in Newark, New Jersey, on December 12, 1937, and it is estimated that he sold more than 200 million records worldwide in his life.
Angeline Jane Bernabe of ABC News contributed to this report.
