Connie Francis Amazed She Has a TikTok Hit After 63 Years

Connie Francis, the 87-year-old music legend, is thrilled yet puzzled by the viral resurgence of her 1962 song “Pretty Little Baby” on TikTok, 63 years after its release.

 
Digital Music News reports the song has exploded on the platform, with nearly 15 million TikTok videos featuring it in 2025, including lip-syncs by stars like Kylie Jenner. 

It has racked up over 20 million Spotify streams and climbed to No. 67 on Spotify’s Global Top 100, while hitting No. 1 on TikTok’s Viral 50 and Shazam’s Viral Charts, and No. 2 on Spotify’s Global Daily Viral Songs chart. Approximately 600,000 TikToks are created daily using the track, and a new version is being recorded in six languages.

Francis, unfamiliar with modern music trends, learned of the phenomenon when her associate Ron Roberts informed her of the “viral hit.” “I had to ask, ‘What’s that?’” she admitted in a Facebook statement. “My thanks to TikTok and its community for the wonderful, unexpected reception to my 1961 recording ‘Pretty Little Baby.’”

Originally a B-side to her 1962 single “I’m Gonna Be Warm This Winter,” the song appeared on her album Connie Francis Sings Second Hand Love & Other Hits, which missed the Billboard Top 100 LPs chart. 

At 23, Francis was already a star, becoming the first woman to top the Billboard Hot 100 with “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool” in 1960. Her career in the late 1950s and early 1960s produced numerous hits, cementing her as a pop and country icon.