Connie Francis Vital Stats
[add a quote]
Connie Francis Quotes
[regarding her version of "God Bless America"] Irving Berlin had a fit when he found out I was doing it. He called my manager and said, "If that teenybopper louses up my beautiful `God Bless America` the way she did poor Harry Ruby`s `Who`s Sorry Now`, I`m going to have a stroke". My manager said, "Please, Irving, relax. You`ll be the first to hear it." "I just don`t want it loused up with any of that `Stupid Cupid` crap!", said Irving. Then when the record came out, my manager sent it directly to [him] and he said, "She did it just the way I thought she`d do it. It stinks! It`s worse than that." I can`t even tell you what he said. So, when it made the Top 10 in Variety, Irving called my manager and says, "George, do you think she can do `God Bless America` on "The Perry Como Show" (1948)?