Connie Francis live in Color - Where The Boys Are (Oct 8,1961)& Lipstick On Your Collar (June 1959)

Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero (December 12, 1937 – July 16, 2025), known professionally as Connie Francis, was an American pop singer, actress and one of the top-charting female vocalists of the late 1950s and early 1960s. She was estimated to have sold more than 100 million records worldwide.
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 when "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" topped the chart in 1960. She was also the first woman to achieve three No. 1 hits on the chart, among her 53 career entries.
A series of traumatic personal experiences and medical problems, starting with being the victim of a knifepoint rape attack in 1974, led Francis to suffer from psychological and physical difficulties that sidelined her performing career.She resumed performing from 1989 until her retirement in 2018. She regained fame in 2025, shortly before her death, when her earlier album cut "Pretty Little Baby" went viral.

"Where the Boys Are" is a song written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield for, and first recorded by, Connie Francis as the title track of the 1960 movie by the same name in which she was co-starring.
Connie Francis recorded "Where the Boys Are" as the theme song for the motion picture Where the Boys Are a 1961 MGM release filmed in 1960 in which Francis made her movie acting debut as one of four female students on spring break in Fort Lauderdale.
According to Francis she was on location in Fort Lauderdale when the film's director Joe Pasternak advised her that he had commissioned the Oscar-winning songwriting team of Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen to write a theme song for the movie which Francis would sing.Pasternak later recalled that when, at Francis's insistence, he agreed to consider a submission from the Sedaka-Greenfield songwriting team to follow her "Stupid Cupid" hit from that team, he told her, "They've got a week but it's got to be here by Wednesday: that's when we're picking the song."Francis thereupon telephoned Howard Greenfield in New York City and Greenfield agreed to complete a "Where the Boys Are" theme song with Sedaka (although Francis recalled that Greenfield initially reacted unfavorably to the request, later saying "'Where the Boys Are'? What kind of stupid title is that? Who can write a song with a title like 'Where the Boys Are'?").Despite this reaction, Sedaka and Greenfield in fact completed two "Where the Boys Are" theme songs and in order to meet Pasternak's deadline, the demos of Sedaka singing both songs were delivered by an airline hostess who personally knew Francis and was working a flight to Florida.

"Lipstick on Your Collar" is a song written by Brill Building staff writers Edna Lewis (lyrics) and George Goehring (music) which was a 1959 hit single for Connie Francis.
In a 1959 interview, Connie Francis attributed her being the sole singer then scoring rock and roll hits by saying: "Rock 'n' roll is a masculine kind of music" with its mindset of "'Come on out baby we're going to rock'...[best] suited for a man to sing...The mistake that many girl singers have made is trying to compete with the men [whereas] I've tried for the cute angle in lyrics, things like 'Lipstick on Your Collar' and 'Stupid Cupid'."
Songwriter George Goehring recalled in 1982 that he had personally pitched "Lipstick on Your Collar" to Francis, when he made an unannounced visit to her New Jersey home and played the song for her on her piano.
Francis recorded the song on April 15, 1959, in a session at Metropolitan Studio (NYC) produced and conducted by Ray Ellis,with veteran guitarist George Barnes contributing a solo to the track.At the same session Francis recorded the romantic ballad "Frankie",a Howard Greenfield/Neil Sedaka composition meant to appeal to Frankie Avalon fans."Lipstick on Your Collar" was originally intended to serve as the B-side to "Frankie", but MGM Records and Francis herself were so pleased with the recording that the two tracks were both promoted equally.
The result was the most successful double-sided hit of Francis' career, as "Lipstick on Your Collar" – the first uptempo Connie Francis single to reach the US Top Ten – peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in July 1959, while "Frankie" peaked at No. 9. "Lipstick on Your Collar" sold over one million copies in the US.
In the summer of 1959 "Lipstick on Your Collar" also reached No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart, and became Francis' first Top Ten hit in Australia at No. 4.
In Canada the two songs co-charted at No. 2 for two weeks.