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The Hollywood Godfather Podcast

S16|E295: Connie Francis-1st Woman to reach #1 on Billboard Hot 100

The Hollywood Godfather Podcast

GRI Entertainment

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, True Crime, Tv & Film

4.7811 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

A listener’s question sparked a wave of nostalgia and inspired this episode. Today we discuss the incredibly talented Connie Francis. She gave us timeless hits like, WHERE THE BOYS ARE & WHO’S SORRY NOW. Tune in as we explore memories behind the legend and celebrate the unforgettable Connie Francis.

Transcript

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0:00.0

My name is Gianni Russo, aka Carlo, the infamous son-in-law from the godfather.

0:08.0

I'm now known as the Hollywood Godfather, and this is my story.

0:13.0

Before all of the wins in my portfolio, I was a little boy diagnosed with polio.

0:19.0

Experimenting with cures, I tried everyone. tried everyone felt everything in my right but my left was

0:24.3

numb walking with a limp like will i ever run once again or is this it am i forever done living in the

0:32.4

hospital was never fun some people were cool but not everyone. Welcome everybody. It's time for another Hollywood Godfather

0:40.5

podcast. We're getting close to 300 hours up. You know that? No. That's awesome. In 290-something hours of shows,

0:48.3

I can't believe we're doing this for six years. It's amazing. That's right. I was trying to remember,

0:54.0

somebody asked me how long I've been doing this. and I said, I don't know. So I'm going to have to go back and look. Yeah, please. You were the best addition to the whole show. Oh, you're sweet. You're very nice. Thank you. You know, and I don't know if everybody knows. I don't know if you're listening, you can, we've got the video version and we've got

1:16.9

the audio version.

1:18.0

So if you want, you've never seen this before, well, of course you've seen Gianni before,

1:22.4

but you can watch this on YouTube.

1:25.2

You can get the video, the video version or the audio version.

1:29.8

So do we have a big video audience? I don't even know.

1:33.8

We have a lot of people that watch on YouTube. My sister watches on YouTube.

1:39.3

My daughter listens audio. My son, I think he, I think he's on the Apple podcast and watches it on the Apple

1:49.0

podcast video version. So we've got a good, good mix of everything coming from my side anyway.

1:55.8

Yeah, well, thank God for your audience. Well, yeah, it's fun. I love it because, you know, I forget about it.

2:04.2

And they'll say, oh, I loved your show the other day.

2:06.7

And so it's kind of fun, fun to see.

2:08.7

Oh, yeah, no, please.

2:09.8

In fact, I'm training a new gal at work.

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