There are some cities that I did take time out to study, 'cause I love history and one of them was Boston, and of course Rome and all of those places like that. But, in Syracuse or Rochester, or any of those places, no.

I wanted the writer Robert Freeman who wrote that miniseries Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows which won I don’t know how many Emmy Awards but Gloria and company were unwilling to hire that writer. She would record this song also in Japanese Italian and Spanish as Connie Francis had done before with her original 1960 version.

Although her chart success waned in the second half of the 1960s Francis remained a top concert draw. Connie Francis (born Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero December 12 1938) is an American pop singer of Italian heritage and the top-charting female vocalist of the 1950s and 1960s.