{"id":6129,"date":"2025-07-17T10:41:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=6129"},"modified":"2025-07-17T10:41:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:41:59","slug":"pretty-little-baby-singer-connie-francis-passes-away-aged-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=6129","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPretty Little Baby\u201d singer Connie Francis passes away aged 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"71\" data-end=\"301\">Singer Connie Francis passed away at 87. She recently returned to the spotlight when her 1962 song \u201cPretty Little Baby\u201d went viral on TikTok, gaining over 17 billion plays thanks to celebrities like Kylie Jenner and Ariana Grande.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"303\" data-end=\"520\">Her friend Ron Roberts announced her death on Facebook, sharing that Connie would want her fans to hear the news first. Before passing, Connie expressed gratitude for her new fans and the song\u2019s unexpected resurgence.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"522\" data-end=\"737\">Despite this late success, she had been struggling with health issues, including a recent hospital stay in intensive care. In a 2011 interview, she also spoke about being misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder and ADHD.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"739\" data-end=\"821\">It\u2019s touching that Connie saw her music loved by a new generation before she died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Connie Francis passed away at 87. She recently returned to the spotlight when her 1962 song \u201cPretty Little Baby\u201d went viral on TikTok, gaining over 17 billion plays thanks to celebrities like Kylie Jenner and Ariana Grande. Her friend Ron Roberts announced her death on Facebook, sharing that Connie would want her fans to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=6129\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;\u201cPretty Little Baby\u201d singer Connie Francis passes away aged 87&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6131,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129\/revisions\/6131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}