Anytime you allow someone else to run your life, you will be unhappy. Whether it be your father, your mother, your husband or anyone else, if you allow them to rule your life, you will never be a whole person and it will not turn out well.
There is far more to her life than this cheesy video tells,(and in A.I. voice no less). It's a case of you had to be around at the time to see and hear the Domino Effect her life took. It:s amazing that she's had the strength to still be with us. This isn't the worst bio I've seen but it's definitely not the best.
I completely agree. I remember when she was raped at the Howard Johnson’s hotel in Westbury NY nearby where I was raised when she was performing at the wonderful Westbury Music Fair theatre in the round. She suffered an emotional breakdown afterwords. That poor woman. I can’t fathom what she suffered. She always seemed like a very decent person to me as she was always devoted to performing at charity events and know for donating personally herself. She also had very polished manners too. Why such a hit job about her? I guess there’s always someone who’s there to kick you when you’re down.
@@LlyleHunter tabloid trash. It's been going on forever. Thank you for replying, I'm glad someone cares. Unfortunately we can't make it go away and neither can she.
She was a human being. The narrator is NOT a human being. She deserved better than poorly programmed artificial mispronounced factoids and canned soft jazz . Bad form
"Lipstick on Your Collar", walking down the street, In South Philadelphia, holding a turquoise, transistor, radio to my ear, 🎼singing as loud as we could, along with her..📻 Still remember all of the words! I thought she was beautiful and a great actress, in "Where the Boy's Are,"! A shocking movie, for those days!
Me too! My radio was a tiny Juliette, it was about 3 or 4 inches square. I won it playing Bingo at the NCO Club at Robins AFB in Georgia in 1964. I was 10 years old! I thought that I was so cool!
It isn't right that any organization should have such power, but they certainly did. I wouldn't cross them unless there were plans in place for another life, far, far away.
@@cissiepierce664 no need to apologize. These blasts from the past can be cool but at age 78 they bring a bolt of reality. I dont have funk days often, fortunately. 😻
At last check on the RnRHoF, Connie is still not in. Her contemporaries Brenda Lee and Patsy Cline have been members inducted decades ago. Connie had a good career and lasted longer than most, i.e., 1957 to circa 1964, but then the Fab 4 arrived and the rock 'n roll scene changed dramatically. Lots of 'teen idols' in those days from the late 50's to the early 60's were swept aside.
I agree with you her father basically kicked her when she was down and her husband didn't have the staying power to help her get through one of the worst times in her life..
@@christinajebali9201 Connie's husband, Joe Garzilli, stayed with her during her rape ordeal and the trial. He left only when everything was over. Read Connie's book: Among My Souviners: The Real Story Part 1. Yes, her father was tough on her, however he was a big help in her career.
Her father was a relic of a rough era; he even said that he was glad she was married to someone more open minded than he was. It's hard to say with her husband; he stayed around for a while when many men would have pulled away, but it sounds as if she didn't want his acceptance. She was imprisoned by the prejudices she had inherited from her father. In any case, if I had a loved one who was touring the way she had to, I'd get her (or him, for that matter) a portable prop-lock. You can't trust hotel locks; the staff can get in whenever they want and there is no telling how many times the master key gets copied.
To quote Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones he said “ Fame does not always sit well on everybody’s Shoulers.” This is called having Emotional Intelligence.
My MIL was asked to perform with Roy Acuff. She was 25. Her Dad said, no daughter of mine will travel the country with a male singer. She cried about it but obeyed. Girls listened to their Dad's in those days.
There weren't any or very few. Certainly no more than than you are I tell. It is like clickbait for people to tune in and perhaps believe that she made up being rpd at the Howard Johnson's back in the 1970s, which all but destroyed her life.
Connie Francis had an extremely beautiful voice in her day. However, she paid a heavy emotional toll in her life. Having an over bearing Father who controlled every aspect of her life and didn't sound like he possessed one ounce of empathy. Several failed marriages to try to replace her love for Bobby Darin and also to try to find a man who would validate her as a person because her Father didn't. I understand this about her relationship with her Father because he sounds like mine and I struggled emotionally because of him. She was also raped and beaten and then of course her Brother was murdered. For all of her fame, she really suffered emotionally over the years. My heart goes out to her.
the title is very wrong there are no web of lies miss Francis told, other yes but not her so sad her life was ruined by her father I will have to look for info about her attacker on the news when it happened they said she was attacked in the elevator I want to know if her attacker was caught and put away,
It's a shame that she had to have 2 men who were horrible towards her .I definitely feel sympathy for her. 😢😢 I am so very sorry for her losing her voice. She should have been entitled to happiness but that wasn't to be at any given time.when it came to Bobby Darin he was the love of her life. Her dad destroyed her relationship with Bobby Darin deliberately of which wasn't right of him to do . shame on him ! !
I have a friend that worked for Connie as an assistant and she is an incredibly strong woman, despite all of her hardships. Check out the bbiography she wrote. Incredible
6:18 Perhaps her most noteworthy followup to "Who's Sorry Now" was "Lipstick on Your Collar", a witty lover's revenge song with a brilliant guitar solo by George Barnes, who, 27 years earlier, at 11 years old, was, likely the first person in the world to do a public performance on an electric guitar. The song has since been covered by artists ranging from punk band The Saints to Donna Summer.
Bear Family Records released several five-cd box sets with Connie's recorded material: "White Sox, Pink Lipstick and Stupid Cupid"; "Kissin, Twistin; and Goin' Where The Boys Are".
Didn't know she had a romance with Darren. Considering how she caught him with 2 women, she didn't lose out on a great love story. But when your family prohibits the romance, you can't help wondering if they put the hex on your happiness. That's why family should warn and not provide monetary support in the future. But they should never stop a child from pursuing her heart. Even if they are correct in their assumptions, they're wrong to do so. Better to have left Connie to have only herself to blame should she have married him. And considering her father's asinine comment on being damaged goods after her being brutalized - I'd say his love wasn't love. Just control. Disgusts me.
There's more to Connie Francis than this short video. Never knew she temporarily lost her voice... must've been traumatic for her. She was resilient at overcoming whatever hardships came her way. " Lipstick on Your Collar" and "Stupid Cupid" are two of my favorite songs of hers. She really infused life into these tunes. 🤩
Connie lost her voice after having a cosmetic nose job. You can see that she doesn't look the same in every frame and it isn't just changing hairstyles. Her voice, post surgery, was never as good as before.
I've heard that the reason Freddie Mercury, Queen's lead singer, never had his teeth altered was because he was afraid it would change the way his voice sounded.
@@beckyadams1128it wasn’t his teeth that he was concerned about it was his pronounced overbite. Teeth don’t alter a person’s singing voice but jaw placement can 😊
Her father kept forcing her into psych institutions. She was forced into the South Florida State Hospital by her father. He was in total control of her, especially her money. It was so sad. She was an incredible talent.
Back then, most record companies treated their artists like a business, attempting to make as much money off them as possible. One exception to that was Brenda Lee. Her managers and Decca Records treated Brenda as a friend, looking out for her.
I read a long time ago that Bobby Darin was raised to believe his grandparents were his parents and that the sister was really his birth mother. Back in those days it was shameful to have a baby out of wedlock. He found out the truth before he passed and was really messed up because of it.
@@carolmanning8367 I am mightily irritated: no one, no article ever explained to me what the benefits of this. very mysterious, "AI" are. It seems to me that a narrator can improve his voice with relatively simple audio recording techniques. Making a voice less shrill, or remove hoarseness. or with an echo to get more volume. This AI whining all the time makes me feel that I'm from another age and a different dimension... Thank y'all so much.
Try following her career and life and knowing proper facts before smearing her and her career BOT. Can’t you even hire a human to give the story. How disappointing. Shame on you.
I was named after Connie Francis behind my moms back at birth. I was suppose to be Penny per my mom. My dad named me Connie on my birth certificate. My mom called me Penny for a month before my dad told her . I eventually gor my middle name changed to appease my mom. I'm always interested in her story and what my dad loved about her. Unfortunately I can't sing worth a 💩.
This was not a good choice to go cheap and use AI ( or the most soulless human?) to narrate when you have a number of decent and even excellent human narrators on this channel. Connie was a complex human being and deserved a complex human rendering. IMHO
14:26 “Was ich bin” is German which she could also sing. John Gotti set a real example how to block justice and deny everything. 45 learned a lot of that from lawyer Roy Cohn of Gotti counsel. What a disgrace all of it.
This AI voice said, " assailiant". I believe her father set up the rape.His behavior before and after the awful event says it all. A monster of a controlling man.
