If there is a decade that produced more songs capable of stopping you mid-grocery-store or mid-car-ride when it ...
This has to be one of the most memorable songs of the 1960s. And yet, when it was first released, “What A Wonderful World” did quite poorly on the US charts. That might seem strange, considering the ...
My bias is showing here. “God Only Knows” is my absolute favorite Beach Boys song. Those harmonies still hit me right in the heart. I’m certainly not the only one who feels that way. This is a lot of ...
1960s pop star Connie Francis has died. The first female singer to chart a No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100, she sold over 40 million records before the age of 25. Connie Francis fixes her hair ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Concetta Rosemarie “Connie Francis” Franconero, July 1959 (PoPsie Randolph/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Connie Francis, the ...
1960s music was almost as popular in the 1980s as it was in the 1960s. During the Reagan years, 1960s songs like The Beatles’ “I Saw Her Standing There” and Petula Clark’s “Downtown” came back with a ...
Her publicist, Ron Roberts, announced her death in a Facebook post. Born Concetta Franconero in Newark, New Jersey, she changed her name at age 13 when television host Arthur Godfrey suggested that ...
Pop singer Connie Francis has died at 87. The first female singer to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, she was known for her hit single "Who's Sorry Now?" and for singing the theme song and ...