[Netizen]

Was 'Where the Boys Are" from the 50's? The movie was in 1961. Just wondered if the song was recorded a couple of years before the movie.

[SirLinksalot]

The song "Where the Boys Are" was composed by the great Neil Sedaka.

Here is the key sentence of Neil Sedaka's biography ...

http://www.history-of-rock.com/neil_sedaka.htm

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While on a two year scholarship to Julliard School In New York, Sedaka sold his first song, "Stupid Cupid," a hit for Connie Francis in 1958, as was his "Where the Boys Are, (which Francis sang in the hit teen movie of the same name) in 1961.

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