Lesley Gore~ "It's My Party"

Lesley Gore~ " It's My Party" (1965)


LYRICS:
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Chorus:
It's my party and I'll cry if I want to
Cry if i want to
Cry if i want to
You would cry too if it's happened to you

Nobody knows where my Johnny has gone
But Judy left the same time
Why was he holding her hand
When he's supposed to be mine

(chorus)

Play all my records keep dancing all night
But leave me alone for a while
'till Johnny's dancing with me
I've got no reason to smile

(chorus)

Judy and Johnny just walked through that door
Like a queen with her king
Oh what a birthday surprise
Judy's wearing his ring

(chorus)

Lesley Gore (born Lesley Sue Goldstein,^[1] May 2, 1946) is an American singer. At the age of 16, in 1963, she recorded the pop hit "It's My Party".

Lesley Gore
Gore as a Batman guest star, 1967
Background information
Born	May 2, 1946 (age 67) New York City, New York, U.S.
Genres	Pop Rock music
Occupations	Singer
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	1963–present
Associated acts	Sue Thompson, Brenda Lee
Website	lesleygore.com

Early life

Gore was born in New York City. She was raised in Tenafly, New Jersey, in a Jewish family.^[2] Her father, Leo Gore, was a wealthy manufacturer of children's clothes and swimwear.

Lesley was a junior at the Dwight School for Girls in nearby Englewood when "It's My Party" became a #1 hit. It was later nominated for a Grammy Award for rock and roll recording.^[3]

It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc.^[4]

1960s career

"It's My Party" was followed by many other hits, including the sequel "Judy's Turn to Cry" (US #5); "She's a Fool" (US #5); the protofeminist million-selling "You Don't Own Me",^[4] which held at #2 for three weeks behind the Beatles' "I Want To Hold Your Hand"; "That's the Way Boys Are" (US #12); "Maybe I Know" (US #14/UK #20); "Look of Love" (US #27); and Grammy-nominated "Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows" (US #13), from the 1965 movie Ski Party.

In 1965, she appeared in the beach party film The Girls on the Beach in which she performed three songs: "Leave Me Alone", "It's Gotta Be You" and "I Don't Want to Be a Loser".

Her record producer Quincy Jones, responsible for all her hits from 1963 to 1965, would later become one of the most famous producers in American music.

Gore was given first shot at recording "A Groovy Kind of Love" by songwriters Carole Bayer and Toni Wine, but Shelby Singleton, a producer for Smash Records, a Mercury subsidiary, refused to let her record a song with the word "groovy" in it.

The Mindbenders went on to record the song, and it went to #2 on the Billboard charts.^[5]

Gore recorded composer Marvin Hamlisch's first hit composition, "Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows" on May 21, 1963, as "It's My Party" was bounding up the charts.

 Quincy Jones dentist was Marvin Hamlisch's uncle, and Marvin asked his uncle to get several songs to Jones. "Sunshine, Lollipops, & Rainbows" sat in the Mercury vaults for two years, when someone at Mercury saw the hit potential, and Mercury released it in June 1965.

 Hamlisch authored three additional Gore tracks, one of which was "California Nights". Citation: PBS "American Masters: Marvin Hamlisch" edition. Citation: other Hamlisch tracks recorded by Gore: (a) "That's the Way the Ball Bounces" recorded September 21, 1963, A&R Studios, New York, NY.

 It was released as the B-side of "That's the Way Boys Are" and appeared on the LP "Boys Boys Boys", and (b) "One by One" an unreleased track recorded on July 31, 1969 im New York, produced by Paul Leka. First appeared on the Bear Family 5 CD anthology of Gore's Mercury work titled, "It's My Party" (1994).

Gore performed on two consecutive episodes of the Batman TV series (January 19 and 25 1967), in which she guest-starred as Pussycat, one of Catwoman's minions.

In the January 19 episode "That Darn Catwoman" she lip-synched to the Bob Crewe-produced "California Nights", and in the January 25 episode "Scat! Darn Catwoman" to "Maybe Now".^[5]

"California Nights", which Gore recorded for her 1967 hit album of the same name, returned her to the upper reaches of the Hot 100.

The Bob Crewe-produced single peaked at number 16 in March 1967 (with a then-sizeable 14 weeks on the chart) – her first top 40 hit since "My Town, My Guy and Me" in late 1965 and her first top 20 since "Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows", which, like "California Nights", was co-written by Marvin Hamlisch and Howard Liebling.

Gore also performed the single "We Know We're in Love" ten months earlier on the final episode of The Donna Reed Show, which aired on March 19, 1966.

After high school, while continuing to work, Gore attended Sarah Lawrence College and studied English and American literature; she graduated in 1968.^[6][7]

Later career

Gore composed songs for the soundtrack of the 1980 film Fame, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for "Out Here on My Own", written with her brother Michael.^[8]

Michael won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for the theme song of the same film.

Gore played concerts and appeared on television throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

In 2005, Gore recorded Ever Since (her first album of new material since Love Me By Name in 1976), with producer/songwriter Blake Morgan, for the small independent label Engine Company Records.

In addition to extensive national radio coverage and critical acclaim from The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Billboard Magazine, and other national press, three songs from Ever Since have been used in television shows and films: "Better Angels", in CSI: Miami's fourth season premiere episode; "Words We Don't Say", in an episode of The L Word; and "It's Gone", in the Jeff Lipsky-directed film Flannel Pajamas.

In 2009, "Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows" was featured in the film Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.

"Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows" was also used in the Simpsons episode "Marge on the Lam", for the Butlins Company TV advertisements in 2008 and for the Target Australia home wares TV advertisement in 2010.

Personal life

Beginning in 2004, Gore hosted the PBS television series In the Life, which focused on LGBT issues.^[9]

She stated in a 2005 interview that she was a lesbian.^[9]

At the time of the interview, Gore had been living with her partner for more than 23 years.^[9]

 

Source:Wikipedia.org

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