Connie Francis, the most popular female singer of the late 1950s and early ’60s, with such hits as “Who’s Sorry Now,” “Stupid Cupid” and “Where the Boys Are,” and who became an unlikely TikTok sensation at 87 for a song she recorded six decades earlier, has died at 87.  She was one of the earliest gay and once told an audience at the Castro Theatre in SF that ‘where the Boys Are” was a Gay Anthem.

In 1960, Francis was recognized as the most successful female recording artist in Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, Italy, Australia, and the United States. She became the first woman in history to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.  She would go on to record her songs in 15 different languages, now making her international star 

Looking back her life seems like it was taken from a Hallmark Film: banned from dating singer Bobby Darin she would go on to marry four times, but three of them lasted less than a few months.