Stupid Cupid - Connie Francis 1958 {Stereo}

1958....#14 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 / This DES stereo video has been abridged to support the hard work of its creators. Without sales of the CD on which this first-time DES song appears there can be no more new stereo like this based on mono originals. Please visit to order and express your support! To find out more about spectral editing and sound source separation, go to “Stupid Cupid“ is a song written by Howard Greenfield and Neil Sedaka which became a hit for Connie Francis in 1958. After almost three years of failure, Connie Francis finally had a hit in the spring of 1958 with a rock ballad version of the standard “Who’s Sorry Now?“ Unfortunately, her next pair of singles were less successful. I’m Sorry I Made You Cry only reached #36 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Heartaches failed to chart at all. Francis recalls: “I knew I had to come up with a hit on the third record. It was crucial. I listened to every publisher’s song in New York, but nothing was hitting me.“ Eventually Don Kirshner of Aldon Music had Greenfield and Sedaka, who were staff writers for Aldon, visit Francis at her home to pitch their songs, but she and close friend Bobby Darin argued that the slow, dense ballads they were offering didn’t appeal to the teenager market. Francis asked if they had something faster and bouncier. Greenfield asked Sedaka to play “Stupid Cupid“, an uptempo number intended for the Shepherd Sisters. Sedaka objected that Francis, a “classy lady,“ would be insulted to be pitched such a puerile song; but Greenfield dismissed Sedaka’s objection, saying, “What have we got to lose, she hates everything we wrote, doesn’t she? Play it already!“ After hearing only a few lines Francis recalls: “I started jumping up and down and I said, ’That’s it! You guys got my next record!’“