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“Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool” is a song written by Jack Keller (music) and Howard Greenfield (lyrics) that was a #1 hit for Connie Francis in mid 1960. Although “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool” was written as a bluesy ballad, Francis envisioned the song as polka-style number feeling that as such it would fare well in the West German market. Producer Arnold Maxin followed Francis’s advisement in the 7 April 1960 session at Olmstead Studios (NYC) when Francis cut the song with the Joe Sherman Orchestra. In the US, “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool” was intended to serve as the B-side for the track “Jealous of You (Tango Della Gelosia)“, which like Francis’s precedent A-side hit “Mama” was a ballad of Italian origin. However, most American radio stations... Read on...