{"id":128148,"date":"2025-07-18T11:20:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=128148"},"modified":"2025-07-18T11:24:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:24:26","slug":"connie-francis-whos-sorry-now-singer-and-actress-dies-at-87-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=128148","title":{"rendered":"Connie Francis, \u2018Who\u2019s Sorry Now?\u2019 Singer and Actress, Dies at 87 \u2013 Entertainment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=128148\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=128148\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-128149 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/download-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Karen Beishuizen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Connie Francis, one of the most commercially successful female singers in history, died on Thursday, 17 July. She was 87.<\/p>\n<p>She was first female singer to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1960 with \u201cEverybody\u2019s Somebody\u2019s Fool\u201d and again three months later with \u201cMy Heart Has a Mind of its Own\u201d. In 1962 she reachted the top for the third time with \u201cDon\u2019t Break the Heart That Loves You\u201d. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ms. Francis was known for her hit single &#8220;Who&#8217;s Sorry Now?&#8221; and for singing the theme song and appearing in the 1961 film \u201cWhere the Boys Are\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She starred in three more MGM movies: \u201cFollow the Boys\u201d, \u201cLooking for Love\u201d and \u201cWhen the Boys Meet the Girls\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She had sold 42 million records by the time she was 26.<\/p>\n<p>Her personal life was filled with tragedy: four unhappy marriages, two miscarriages and a son that lived for only 10 days; was raped at knifepoint in a Long Island motel; her brother was murdered, gangland style; botched nasal surgery took away her singing voice for years; and she was diagnosed with manic depression and involuntarily institutionalized 17 times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dI would like to be remembered, not so much for the heights I have reached, but for the depths from which I have come,\u201d she often said.<\/p>\n<p>Concetta Maria Franconero was born on Dec. 12, 1937, in Newark. 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By Karen Beishuizen Connie Francis, one of the most commercially successful female singers in history, died on Thursday, 17 July. 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She was first female singer to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1960 with \u201cEverybody\u2019s Somebody\u2019s Fool\u201d and again three months later with \u201cMy Heart Has a Mind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28132,17984],"tags":[33090,33089,32951],"class_list":["post-128148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns-by-karen-beishuizen","category-entertainment-news","tag-whos-sorry-now-singer-and-actress","tag-connie-francis","tag-dies-at-87-entertainment-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128148"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}