I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.

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.