CONNIE FRANCIS - STUPID CUPID

STUPID CUPID

CONNIE FRANCIS

Songwriter: Howard Greenfield & Neil Sedaka

Album: stupid cupid/single 45rpm

Label: mgm records

Genre: rock and roll

Year: 1958

"Stupid Cupid" is a song written by Howard Greenfield and Neil Sedaka which became a hit for Connie Francis in 1958.

In the spring of 1958 Francis had hit No. 4 with her breakout hit, a rock ballad version of the standard "Who's Sorry Now?". The similarly-styled follow-up "I'm Sorry I Made You Cry" had barely reached the Top 40 and Francis recalls: "I knew I had to come up with a hit on the third record. It was crucial. I listened to every publisher's song in New York, but nothing was hitting me." Eventually Don Kirshner of Aldon Music had Greenfield and Sedaka, who were staff writers for Aldon, visit Francis at her home to pitch their songs; after listening to a number of ballads — which both Francis and her visitor Bobby Darin felt were too sophisticated to appeal to the teen market — Francis asked if the songwriters had "something a little more lively" and Greenfield asked Sedaka to play "Stupid Cupid", an uptempo number intended for the Shepherd Sisters. Sedaka objected that Francis, a "classy lady", would be insulted to be pitched such a puerile song; but Greenfield dismissed Sedaka's objection, saying, "What have we got to lose, she hates everything we wrote, doesn't she? Play it already!" After hearing only a few lines Francis recalls: "I started jumping up and down and I said, 'That's it! You guys got my next record!'"

Stupid cupid, you're a real mean guy

I'd like to clip your wings so you can't fly

I'm in love and it's a crying shame

And I know that you're the one to blame

Hey, hey -- set me free

Stupid cupid, stop pickin' on me!

I can't do my homework and I can't see straight

I meet him every morning 'bout a half-past eight

I'm acting like a lovesick fool

You've even got me carrying his books to school

Hey, hey -- set me free

Stupid cupid, stop pickin' on me!

You mixed me up but good right from the very start

Hey, go play Robin Hood with somebody else's heart

You've got me jumping like a crazy clown,

And I don't feature what you're putting down

Since I kissed his lovin' lips of wine,

The thing that bothers me is that I like it fine!

Hey, hey -- set me free

Stupid cupid, stop pickin' on me!

You've got me jumping like a crazy clown,

And I don't feature what you're putting down

Since I kissed his lovin' lips of wine,

The thing that bothers me is that I like it fine!

Hey, hey -- set me free

Stupid cupid, stop pickin' on me!

Hey, hey -- set me free

Stupid cupid, stop pickin' on me!