Who's Sorry Now?
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| "Who's Sorry Now?" | ||||
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| Single by Connie Francis | ||||
| B-side | You Were Only Foolin' (While I Was Fallin' In Love) | |||
| Released | November 1957 | |||
| Recorded | October 2, 1957 | |||
| Genre | Rock 'n' Roll | |||
| Length | 2:16 | |||
| Label | MGM Records K 12588 |
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| Writer(s) | Ted Snyder, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby | |||
| Producer | Harry A. Myerson | |||
| Connie Francis singles chronology | ||||
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"Who's Sorry Now?" is a popular song with music written by Ted Snyder and lyrics by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby. It was published in 1923.[1]
"Who's Sorry Now?" was featured in the Marx Brothers film A Night in Casablanca (1946), directed by Archie Mayo and released by United Artists.
The song has been recorded by a number of artists. The Tiny Hill Orchestra recorded it in 1945 (Mercury Records catalog number 2041). Another one of those was an August 20, 1951 recording by Jerry Gray and his orchestra (Decca Records catalog number 27868[2]) .
The song was recorded in 1958 by Connie Francis, and since then the song has become closely identified with her with her due to the immense popularity of her version which was her breakout hit. Francis' father had pestered her to record "Who's Sorry Now" being adamant that the song would be a rock and roll smash hit. Francis did not share this enthusiasm but when a January 1958 recording session - presumably Francis' last as she'd scored no hits - wrapped early the singer used the leftover studio time to record "Who's Sorry Now" as a goodwill gesture to her father. Breaking in February 1958 - mainly on account of Dick Clark's championing of "Who's Sorry Now" on American Bandstand - the track rose as high as #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 that spring, with eventual US sales totaling one million units. In the UK "Who's Sorry Now" was #1 for six weeks in May and June 1958.
Ella Fitzgerald included this song on ther 1960 Verve release Let No Man Write My Epitaph, accompanied only by pianist Paul Smith.
Marie Osmond's third studio album, released in 1975, featured a remake of "Who's Sorry Now" as it s title cut; this version reached #40 on the Billboard Hot 100 also ranking on Billboard's C&W chart and Easy Listening chart at respectively #29 and #21.
Lyn Paul had a 1974 single release of "Who's Sorry Now" which approached the UK Top 50 that October but stalled at #58.
Leland Palmer, Ann Reinking and Erzsebet Foldi perform the song in the film All That Jazz (1979).
Harry Connick, Jr. recorded it as a bonus track for his 2009 album Your Songs.
Clay Aiken recorded the song as a bonus track for his 2010 album Tried and True.
This song was the subject of litigation in the 1985 U.S. Supreme Court case Mills Music v. Snyder, 469 U.S. 153
[edit] References
- ^ Furia, Phillip; Lasser, Michael. America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley. CRC Press. p. 36. ISBN 0415972469. "On infrequent occasions Ruby also worked on lyrics. He and Kalmar wrote the words to a Tom Snyder tune they called "Who's Sorry Now?""
- ^ Decca Records in the 27500 to 27999 series
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