Connie Francis has passed away. She was the first woman ever to top the Billboard Hot 100 with 1960’s ‘Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool.’ ...

Francis was born in Newark and graduated from high school in Belleville, New Jersey. She became a well known pop star in the 1950s and '60s and the first female singer to top the Billboard Hot 100.

Connie Francis has died. The first female singer to chart a number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100, she sold over 40 ...

Connie Francis, the chart-topping pop singer of ’50s and ’60s classics like “Stupid Cupid,” “Where the Boys Are” and the recently TikTok viral “Pretty Little Baby,” has died, according to the New York ...