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 Connie Francis
Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero, born in 1938 in Newark, New Jersey
to Italian parents, began her career in music as a child accordion
player who could sing.
At the age of 11 she won a spot on Arthur Godfrey's Startime
Talent Scouts TV show, on which she appeared for four years.
She gradually became more recognised for her remarkable singing
voice than her accordion skills; and despite her father's
insistence that she should one day open a school of music for
accordionists, she signed a recording contract with MGM in 1955.
Connie recorded several unsuccessful singles for MGM until, on
her last session (in 1958 when the label were threatening to drop
her contract) she sang Who's Sorry Now?
It went straight
to the top of the charts and was to be the turning point of her
career.
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