Connie Francis’ 1962 tune “Pretty Little Baby” is climbing the charts, thanks to a viral trend that features creators lip-syncing the lyrics while showing off stylish outfits.
The song entered the Viral 50 on TikTok last week at No.14 and is now at No.10. Users on TikTok have been showing off their best fits while singing along to the song, reciting quotable lyrics like: “You’ll be thinkin’ of me, and try to love me/ Pretty little baby, I’m hoping that you do.”
Another recent time Francis’ legendary catalog made its way back into the limelight was in 2023 when a clip of her performing on The Ed Sullivan Show arrived on the show’s official YouTube channel. In the 1967 performance, she shows her trademark vocal control to perform a medley of “Goin’ Out Of My Head,” the Teddy Randazzo and Bobby Weinstein song first recorded by Little Anthony and the Imperials in 1964, and Bobby Hebb’s similarly widely-covered 1966 hit “Sunny.”
Francis performed The Ed Sullivan Show all the way from the late 1950s and through the 1960s. She also continued to be a chart regular, with an extraordinary 56 appearances on the Billboard singles list to her name by the time of her last appearance with “The Wedding Cake” in 1969.
She also amassed 22 chart albums in America between 1961 and 1966, of which ten were English language studio albums, five for the foreign language market (notably in Italian), four compilations, and three soundtracks.
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