{"id":155674,"date":"2025-07-19T14:08:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T14:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=155674"},"modified":"2025-07-19T14:08:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T14:08:26","slug":"the-good-old-days-of-music-worth-listening-to-enjoy-by-charles-schokman-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/the-good-old-days-of-music-worth-listening-to-enjoy-by-charles-schokman-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The good old days of music worth listening to &#038; enjoy &#8211; By  Charles Schokman"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong> The good old days of music worth listening to &amp; enjoy &#8211; By Charles Schokman<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-155675 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/The-good-old-days-of-music-worth-listening-to-enjoy-By-Charles-Schokman.jpeg\" alt=\" The good old days of music worth listening to &amp; enjoy - By Charles Schokman \" width=\"487\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Connie Francis Songs Early Years Collection<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VoXDoJV7CaQ?si=qYnsT-NDr-7Ttvbs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Connie Francis Collection<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tcYvGYaRRZc?si=0BRSwgZV2JYpOx95\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Connie Francis A Legend in Concert USA\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1S9KVTbDuCM?si=GqnuSAvD9wVzXZ0O\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Connie Francis, who was at one time the world&#8217;s biggest-selling female artist, has died at the age of 87.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The musician, whose hits included Stupid Cupid and Who&#8217;s Sorry Now, had recently enjoyed a resurgence after her 1962 song Pretty Little Baby went viral on TikTok.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Francis had recently been treated for pelvic pain caused by a fracture. During her stay in hospital, she was diagnosed with pneumonia and died on Wednesday night, the president of her record label, Ron Roberts, told BBC News.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Roberts had previously announced the star\u2019s death\u00a0on\u00a0\u201cwith a heavy heart and extreme sadness. &#8220;I know that Connie would approve that her fans are among the first to learn of this sad news,\u201d he added. The star&#8217;s death comes just months after Pretty Little Baby became a trending song on TikTok.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Millions of people, including Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner, lip-synced to the easy listening ballad, while showing off their children and pets, or making displays of affection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">One video, by social media influencers Brooke Monk and Sam Dezz,\u00a0Speaking last month, Francis said she had been surprised by the sudden success of a track that had originally been a b-side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;To tell you the truth, I didn&#8217;t even remember the song<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;I had to listen to it to remember. To think that a song I recorded 63 years ago is touching the hearts of millions of people is truly awesome. It is an amazing feeling.&#8221; Francis was born Concetta Rosemarie Franconero and grew up in a working-class Italian American family in Brooklyn, New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Encouraged by her father, she started playing the accordion at the age of three. By the time she was a teenager, she had changed her name to Connie Francis, and was making regular appearances on the US TV variety show Startime Kids.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Early attempts to launch a singing career were not successful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">She was turned down by almost every record label, only securing a contract with MGM Records because her demo song was called Freddy &#8211; which happened to be the name of the president&#8217;s son.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Her initial recordings failed to find an audience, and Francis accepted a place to study medicine at university.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">But she scored a breakout hit with her last contracted recording for MGM &#8211; a cover of the 1923 song Who&#8217;s Sorry Now?, that she only recorded at her father&#8217;s insistence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;I had 18 bomb records,&#8221; Francis told UPI in 1996. &#8220;He wanted me to record a song written in 1923. I said &#8216;Forget about it &#8211; the kids on American Bandstand would laugh me right off the show.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;He said, &#8216;If you don&#8217;t record this song, dummy, the only way you&#8217;ll get on American Bandstand is to sit on the TV&#8217;.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">It was almost prophetic. In 1958, Dick Clark championed the track on American Bandstand, telling viewers: &#8220;There&#8217;s no doubt about it, she is headed straight for the number one spot.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Francis, who was watching at home, had no idea the song was going to feature on the show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;Well, the feeling was cosmic &#8211; just cosmic!&#8221; she wrote in her diary that night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;Right there in my living-room, it became Mardi Gras-time and New Year&#8217;s Eve at the turn of the century!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">In 1974 Francis mounted a comeback at the Westbury Music Fair in New York, but after the performance she was beaten and raped at knife point in her motel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Traumatised, she became a recluse and spent several spells in psychiatric hospitals (she later said she had been admitted against her will by her father).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">At her lowest point, the star tried to kill herself with sleeping pills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;I just felt that there was nothing for me to live for,&#8221; she told Terry Wogan on his BBC One chat show in 1989.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;I had this free-floating fear of life in general after the rape, and I just said, &#8216;Well, that&#8217;s it, I&#8217;m going to check out&#8217;.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Francis said it was her adopted son, Joey, who saved her life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;I was looking at this bottle of sleeping pills&#8230; and my son knocked at the door of the bathrooom and he said, &#8216;Mommy, you&#8217;re the best mommy I ever had&#8217;,&#8221; she told Wogan.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;And that was it. I took the pills and threw them right down the toilet.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/elanka-newsletter-sign-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click here to receive your free copy of the eLanka Newsletter twice a week delivered directly\u00a0to\u00a0your\u00a0inbox!<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good old days of music worth listening to &amp; enjoy &#8211; By Charles Schokman Connie Francis Songs Early Years Collection Connie Francis Collection Connie Francis A Legend in Concert USA\u00a0 Connie Francis, who was at one time the world&#8217;s biggest-selling female artist, has died at the age of 87. 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