Lesley Gore
Encyclopedia
Lesley Gore is an American singer. She is perhaps best known for her 1963 pop
hit "It's My Party
", which she recorded at the age of 16. Following the hit, she became one of the most recognized teen pop
singers of the 1960s.
, New York
. She was raised in Tenafly, New Jersey
, in a Jewish family. Her younger brother Michael
, was an Oscar winner for Best Original Song for the theme song of ”Fame”. 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. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc
.
" (US #5), the sequel to "It's My Party"; "She's a Fool
" (US #5); the proto-feminist "You Don't Own Me
", 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); "The Look of Love" (US #27); and Grammy
-nominated
"Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows
" (US #13), from the 1965 movie "Ski Party
". Her record producer
was Quincy Jones
, who would later become one of the most famous producers in American music. "You Don't Own Me" also sold a million copies, and was awarded gold disc status.
Instead of accepting the television
and movie
contracts that came her way, Gore chose to attend Sarah Lawrence College
in Yonkers, New York
. This limited her public career to weekends and summer vacations and undoubtedly hurt her career. Nevertheless, throughout the mid 1960s Gore continued to be one of the most popular female singers in the United States and Canada
.
Gore was given first shot at recording "A Groovy Kind of Love", but Shelby Singleton
, a producer for Smash Records
, a Mercury subsidiary, recommended that she not 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. Gore also released "Wedding Bell Blues
" as a single in 1969, but her version flopped while the 5th Dimension's version spent three weeks at #1. Gore also recorded many of her hit songs in French
, German
, and Italian
.
By the late 1960s, her popularity had decreased with the advent of harder-edged psychedelic music
. Her last major hit was the Bob Crewe
-produced "California Nights" (US #16), which she performed on both the January 19 and January 25, 1967, episodes of the Batman
TV series
, in which she guest-starred as Pussycat, one of Catwoman
's minions. In the episodes, she lip-synched to her songs "California Nights" (skipping the second verse) and "Maybe Now" (the latter was for some reason cut from most later broadcasts of the episodes). Gore also performed the single "We Know We're in Love" almost a year earlier on the final episode of "The Donna Reed Show", which aired on March 19, 1966. Afterwards, she maintained a lower profile in the music industry, performing at concerts and in cabaret
s. She also kept busy writing songs, including composing 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
. The song was a Top 20 hit for Irene Cara
.
In an interview Gore said that when Mercury Records dropped her in 1969, they owed her $175,000.00 and she did not see a nickel from them until 1989, by which time Mercury has recouped all of their costs from her royalties.
for Engine Company Records
(a small independent label). 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 homewares TV advertisement in 2010.
.
Some commentators consider the lyric content of some albums, notably Someplace Else Now, to contain implicit references to Gore's sexuality
. Her altering of known song lyrics was also thought to have implied her orientation, as in her album The Canvas Can Do Miracles. On that album she covered the song "You're the One That I Want
" (from the film Grease
), altering the line "'cause I need a man" to "'cause I need a friend".
Gore provided musical aid for the 1996 film Grace of My Heart
, which featured a character (played by Bridget Fonda
) whose struggles over her sexual orientation were similar to Gore's. The film character is able to express her feelings to her female lover openly by singing a song titled "Secret Love". Gore also sang a song with the same title. Beginning in 2004, Gore could be seen hosting the PBS television series In the Life
, which focused on LGBT
issues. Gore currently lives in Manhattan with her partner of more than 28 years.
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
hit "It's My Party
It's My Party (song)
"It's My Party" is a song most famously sung by American singer Lesley Gore in 1963. This song hit #1 on the pop and rhythm and blues charts in the United States. "It's My Party", peaked at #9 in the United Kingdom, becoming Gore's only major hit there...
", which she recorded at the age of 16. Following the hit, she became one of the most recognized teen pop
Teen pop
Teen pop is a subgenre of pop music that is created, marketed and oriented towards teenagers. Teen pop copies genres and styles such as pop, dance, R&B, hip hop, country and rock....
singers of the 1960s.
Biography
Gore was born in New York CityNew York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
. She was raised in Tenafly, New Jersey
Tenafly, New Jersey
Tenafly is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 census, the borough population was 14,488. Tenafly is an affluent suburb of New York City....
, in a Jewish family. Her younger brother Michael
Michael Gore
Michael Gore is an American composer. He, along with lyricist Dean Pitchford, won the Oscar in 1980 for best original song for "Fame" from the film of the same title. He also won the award that year for best original score. Gore is the younger brother of singer/songwriter Lesley Gore.Gore wrote...
, was an Oscar winner for Best Original Song for the theme song of ”Fame”. Her father, Leo Gore, was a wealthy manufacturer of children's clothes and swimwear.
Lesley was a junior at the Dwight School for Girls
Dwight-Englewood School
The Dwight–Englewood School is an independent coeducational college preparatory day school, located in Englewood, New Jersey. The school teaches students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade via three functionally separate schools. The Lower School serves students in pre-kindergarten through...
in nearby Englewood
Englewood, New Jersey
Englewood is a city located in Bergen County, New Jersey. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city had a total population of 27,147.Englewood was incorporated as a city by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 17, 1899, from portions of Ridgefield Township and the remaining portions of...
when "It's My Party" became a #1 hit. It was later nominated for a Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
for rock and roll recording. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc
Music recording sales certification
Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...
.
Career: 1960s and 1970s
Gore's first hit was followed by many others, including: "Judy's Turn to CryJudy's Turn to Cry
"Judy's Turn to Cry" is a song written by Beverly "Ruby" Ross and Edna Lewis that was originally released by Lesley Gore in 1963. The song was produced by Quincy Jones, who also produced Gore's prior hit "It's My Party"...
" (US #5), the sequel to "It's My Party"; "She's a Fool
She's a Fool
"She's a Fool" is a song written by Mark Barkan and Ben Raleigh that was originally recorded by Lesley Gore in 1963. The song appeared as a single and on the album Lesley Gore Sings of Mixed-Up Hearts. The song was produced by Quincy Jones. The single reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #26...
" (US #5); the proto-feminist "You Don't Own Me
You Don't Own Me
"You Don't Own Me" is a popular song written by the Philadelphia songwriters John Madara and David White, and recorded by Lesley Gore in 1963, when Gore was 17 years old. The song reached No...
", which held at #2 for three weeks behind The Beatles' "I Want To Hold Your Hand"; "That's the Way Boys Are
That's the Way Boys Are
"That's the Way Boys Are" is a song written by Mark Barkan and Ben Raleigh and initially sung by Lesley Gore and released in 1964 as a single and on Gore's 3rd album Boys, Boys, Boys. The single reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100, being kept out of the top 10 by songs by British Invasion bands...
" (US #12); "Maybe I Know" (US #14/UK #20); "The Look of Love" (US #27); and Grammy
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
-nominated
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance is the latest in a series of awards recognizing superior vocal performance by a female in the pop category, the first of which was presented in 1959. The award goes to the artist...
"Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows
Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows
"Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows" is a popular song sung by Lesley Gore. It was originally released on Gore's 1963 album Lesley Gore Sings of Mixed-Up Hearts. The song was composed by Marvin Hamlisch. It was arranged by Claus Ogerman and produced by Quincy Jones. The tune peaked at #13 on the...
" (US #13), from the 1965 movie "Ski Party
Ski Party
Ski Party is a B-movie, directed by Alan Rafkin, and released in 1965 by American International Pictures. Ski Party is part of the 1960s Beach Party film genre, with a change of setting from the beach to the slopes - although the final scene places everyone back at the beach...
". Her record producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
was Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones
Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr. is an American record producer and musician. A conductor, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend...
, who would later become one of the most famous producers in American music. "You Don't Own Me" also sold a million copies, and was awarded gold disc status.
Instead of accepting the television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
and movie
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
contracts that came her way, Gore chose to attend Sarah Lawrence College
Sarah Lawrence College
Sarah Lawrence College is a private liberal arts college in the United States, and a leader in progressive education since its founding in 1926. Located just 30 minutes north of Midtown Manhattan in southern Westchester County, New York, in the city of Yonkers, this coeducational college offers...
in Yonkers, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
. This limited her public career to weekends and summer vacations and undoubtedly hurt her career. Nevertheless, throughout the mid 1960s Gore continued to be one of the most popular female singers in the United States and Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
.
Gore was given first shot at recording "A Groovy Kind of Love", but Shelby Singleton
Shelby Singleton
Shelby Singleton was an American record producer and record label owner.-Early Life:...
, a producer for Smash Records
Smash Records
Smash Records is an American record label. It was founded in 1961 as a subsidiary of Mercury Records by Mercury executive Shelby Singleton and run by Singleton with Charlie Fach. Fach took over after Singleton left Mercury in 1966...
, a Mercury subsidiary, recommended that she not record a song with the word "groovy" in it. The Mindbenders
The Mindbenders
The Mindbenders was a 1960s beat group from Manchester, England. They were part of the mid 1960s British Invasion with their chart-toppers "Game of Love" and "A Groovy Kind of Love"....
went on to record the song, and it went to #2 on the Billboard charts. Gore also released "Wedding Bell Blues
Wedding Bell Blues
"Wedding Bell Blues" is a song written and recorded by Laura Nyro in 1966 that became a number one hit for The 5th Dimension in 1969 and subsequently a popular phrase in American culture...
" as a single in 1969, but her version flopped while the 5th Dimension's version spent three weeks at #1. Gore also recorded many of her hit songs in French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, and Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
.
By the late 1960s, her popularity had decreased with the advent of harder-edged psychedelic music
Psychedelic music
Psychedelic music covers a range of popular music styles and genres, which are inspired by or influenced by psychedelic culture and which attempt to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues-rock bands in the...
. Her last major hit was the Bob Crewe
Bob Crewe
Bob Crewe is an American songwriter, dancer, singer, manager, record producer and fine artist. He is known for producing, and co-writing with Bob Gaudio, a string of Top 10 singles for The Four Seasons...
-produced "California Nights" (US #16), which she performed on both the January 19 and January 25, 1967, episodes of the Batman
Batman (TV series)
Batman is an American television series, based on the DC comic book character of the same name. It stars Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin — two crime-fighting heroes who defend Gotham City. It aired on the American Broadcasting Company network for three seasons from January 12, 1966 to...
TV series
Television program
A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...
, in which she guest-starred as Pussycat, one of Catwoman
Catwoman
Catwoman is a fictional character associated with DC Comics' Batman franchise. Historically a supervillain, the character was created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, partially inspired by Kane's cousin, Ruth Steel...
's minions. In the episodes, she lip-synched to her songs "California Nights" (skipping the second verse) and "Maybe Now" (the latter was for some reason cut from most later broadcasts of the episodes). Gore also performed the single "We Know We're in Love" almost a year earlier on the final episode of "The Donna Reed Show", which aired on March 19, 1966. Afterwards, she maintained a lower profile in the music industry, performing at concerts and in cabaret
Cabaret
Cabaret is a form, or place, of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue: a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting at tables watching the performance, as introduced by a master of ceremonies or...
s. She also kept busy writing songs, including composing songs for the soundtrack
Soundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...
of the 1980 film Fame, for which she received an Academy Award
Academy Awards
An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...
nomination for "Out Here on My Own", written with her brother Michael
Michael Gore
Michael Gore is an American composer. He, along with lyricist Dean Pitchford, won the Oscar in 1980 for best original song for "Fame" from the film of the same title. He also won the award that year for best original score. Gore is the younger brother of singer/songwriter Lesley Gore.Gore wrote...
. The song was a Top 20 hit for Irene Cara
Irene Cara
Irene Cara is an American singer and actress. Cara won an Academy Award in 1984 in the category of Best Original Song for co-writing "Flashdance... What a Feeling." She is also known for her recording of the song "Fame", and she also starred in the 1980 film Fame.She married Hollywood stuntman...
.
In an interview Gore said that when Mercury Records dropped her in 1969, they owed her $175,000.00 and she did not see a nickel from them until 1989, by which time Mercury has recouped all of their costs from her royalties.
Return to recording in 2005
Gore played concerts and appeared on television throughout the 1980s and 1990s. In 2005, she recorded her first album of new material since 1976 (Love Me By Name) — Ever Since — with producer/songwriter Blake MorganBlake Morgan
Blake Morgan is an American musician, singer-songwriter, music producer, and record label owner based in New York City. After releasing the alternative rock solo album Anger's Candy on Phil Ramone's N2K Sony/Red label, he began producing music independently and founded the label Engine Company...
for Engine Company Records
Engine Company Records
Engine Company Records is a nationally and internationally distributed record label based in New York City, founded by recording artist and producer Blake Morgan.- History :...
(a small independent label). In addition to extensive national radio coverage and critical acclaim from The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...
, Billboard Magazine, and other national press, three songs from Ever Since have been used in television shows and films: Better Angels
Better Angels
Better Angels is a science fiction novel by Howard V. Hendrix first published in 1999.-Plot introduction:Better Angels is a prequel to Hendrix's earlier novels Lightpath and Standing Wave, filling in history about how the characters in those novels came to be who they are.-Explanation of the...
, in CSI: Miami
CSI: Miami
CSI: Miami is an American police procedural television series, which premiered on September 23, 2002 on CBS. The series is a spin-off of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation....
s fourth season premiere episode, "Words We Don't Say", in an episode of The L Word
The L Word
The L Word is an American co-production television drama series originally shown on Showtime portraying the lives of a group of lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people and their friends, family and lovers in the trendy Greater Los Angeles, California city of West Hollywood...
, and "It's Gone", in the Jeff Lipsky-directed film Flannel Pajamas
Flannel Pajamas (film)
Flannel Pajamas is a 2006 film directed by Jeff Lipsky, starring Julianne Nicholson and Justin Kirk. It charts the course of a short-lived marriage, from its passionate beginning through the daily erosion of feeling and romance to separation...
. In 2009, "Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows" was featured in the film Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (film)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a 2009 American computer-animated family comedy film, produced by Sony Pictures Animation, distributed by Columbia Pictures, and released on September 18, 2009. The film is loosely based on the children's book of the same name by Judi and Ron Barrett.The film...
. "Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows" was also used in the Simpsons episode Marge on the Lam
Marge on the Lam
"Marge on the Lam" is the sixth episode of The Simpsons fifth season, which originally aired on November 4, 1993 on Fox. When Marge invites her neighbor, Ruth Powers to attend the ballet with her, the two become friends and begin to go out, making Homer jealous as he wants Marge to spend time with...
, for the Butlins
Butlins
Butlins is a chain of large holiday camps in the United Kingdom. Butlins was founded by Billy Butlin to provide affordable holidays for ordinary British families....
Company TV advertisements in 2008 and for the Target Australia homewares TV advertisement in 2010.
Sexual orientation
Gore announced in 2005 that she is a lesbianLesbian
Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...
.
Some commentators consider the lyric content of some albums, notably Someplace Else Now, to contain implicit references to Gore's sexuality
Sexual orientation
Sexual orientation describes a pattern of emotional, romantic, or sexual attractions to the opposite sex, the same sex, both, or neither, and the genders that accompany them. By the convention of organized researchers, these attractions are subsumed under heterosexuality, homosexuality,...
. Her altering of known song lyrics was also thought to have implied her orientation, as in her album The Canvas Can Do Miracles. On that album she covered the song "You're the One That I Want
You're the One That I Want
"You're the One That I Want" is a song written by John Farrar for the 1978 film version of the musical Grease. It was performed by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John....
" (from the film Grease
Grease (film)
Grease is a 1978 American musical film directed by Randal Kleiser and based on Warren Casey's and Jim Jacobs's 1971 musical of the same name about two lovers in a 1950s high school. The film stars John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, and Jeff Conaway...
), altering the line "'cause I need a man" to "'cause I need a friend".
Gore provided musical aid for the 1996 film Grace of My Heart
Grace of My Heart
Grace of My Heart is a 1996 film written and directed by Allison Anders, set in the pop music world, starting off in New York's Brill Building early 1960s era, weaving through the California Sound of the mid '60s and culminating with the adult-contemporary scene of the early 1970s.The plot follows...
, which featured a character (played by Bridget Fonda
Bridget Fonda
Bridget Jane Fonda is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in films such as The Godfather Part III, Single White Female, Point of No Return, It Could Happen to You, and Jackie Brown...
) whose struggles over her sexual orientation were similar to Gore's. The film character is able to express her feelings to her female lover openly by singing a song titled "Secret Love". Gore also sang a song with the same title. Beginning in 2004, Gore could be seen hosting the PBS television series In the Life
In The Life
In the Life is a gay and lesbian television newsmagazine that is broadcast on PBS. It is one of public television's premiere educational programs and is nearing its 15th season on national broadcast...
, which focused on LGBT
LGBT
LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...
issues. Gore currently lives in Manhattan with her partner of more than 28 years.
Studio albums
| Year | Album details | Chart positions |
|---|---|---|
| US Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
||
| 1963 | I'll Cry If I Want to I'll Cry If I Want To I'll Cry If I Want to was the debut album of Lesley Gore. The album included her hit singles "It's My Party" and its follow up, "Judy's Turn to Cry"...
|
24 |
| Lesley Gore Sings of Mixed-Up Hearts
|
125 | |
| 1964 | Boys, Boys, Boys
|
127 |
| Girl Talk
|
146 | |
| 1965 | My Town, My Guy, and Me
|
120 |
| 1966 | Lesley Gore Sings All About Love
|
— |
| 1967 | California Nights
|
169 |
| Magic Colors
|
— | |
| 1972 | Someplace Else Now Someplace Else Now (album) Someplace Else Now is a 1972 album by American singer Lesley Gore. , Lakeland Ledger and is her eighth studio album. It was preceded by the 1968 compilation album Golden Hits Volume 2. Only one single was released from the album, "She Said That".-Track listing:#"For Me" #"The Road I Walk" #"Out of... |
— |
| 1976 | Love Me by Name
A&M Records A&M Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group that operates under the mantle of its Interscope-Geffen-A&M division.-Beginnings:... |
— |
| 1982 | The Canvas Can Do Miracles
|
— |
| 2005 | Ever Since Ever Since (Lesley Gore) Ever Since is a 2005 album by American singer Lesley Gore and is her eleventh studio album. It was preceded by the 1982 album The Canvas Can Do Miracles .-Track listing:#"Ever Since" - 3:20#"Cool Web" - 3:25... |
— |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | ||
Compilation albums
| Year | Album details | Chart positions |
|---|---|---|
| US |
||
| 1965 | The Golden Hits of Lesley Gore
|
95 |
| 1968 | Lesley Gore Golden Hits, Vol. 2
|
— |
| 1998 | Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows: The Best of Lesley Gore
|
— |
| 2000 | 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection
|
— |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | ||
Singles
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
US AC Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks The Adult Contemporary chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States... |
US R&B Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,... |
UK UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
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| 1963 | "It's My Party It's My Party (song) "It's My Party" is a song most famously sung by American singer Lesley Gore in 1963. This song hit #1 on the pop and rhythm and blues charts in the United States. "It's My Party", peaked at #9 in the United Kingdom, becoming Gore's only major hit there... " |
1 | — | 1 | 9 | I'll Cry If I Want to |
| "Judy's Turn to Cry Judy's Turn to Cry "Judy's Turn to Cry" is a song written by Beverly "Ruby" Ross and Edna Lewis that was originally released by Lesley Gore in 1963. The song was produced by Quincy Jones, who also produced Gore's prior hit "It's My Party"... " |
5 | — | 10 | — | ||
| "She's a Fool She's a Fool "She's a Fool" is a song written by Mark Barkan and Ben Raleigh that was originally recorded by Lesley Gore in 1963. The song appeared as a single and on the album Lesley Gore Sings of Mixed-Up Hearts. The song was produced by Quincy Jones. The single reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #26... " |
5 | — | 26 | — | Lesley Gore Sings of Mixed-Up Hearts | |
| 1964 | "You Don't Own Me You Don't Own Me "You Don't Own Me" is a popular song written by the Philadelphia songwriters John Madara and David White, and recorded by Lesley Gore in 1963, when Gore was 17 years old. The song reached No... " |
2 | — | — | — | |
| "I Don't Know Anymore" | — | — | — | — | non-album single | |
| "That's the Way Boys Are That's the Way Boys Are "That's the Way Boys Are" is a song written by Mark Barkan and Ben Raleigh and initially sung by Lesley Gore and released in 1964 as a single and on Gore's 3rd album Boys, Boys, Boys. The single reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100, being kept out of the top 10 by songs by British Invasion bands... " |
12 | — | — | — | Boys, Boys, Boys | |
| "I Don't Wanna Be a Loser" | 37 | 12 | — | — | ||
| "Maybe I Know" | 14 | — | — | 20 | Girl Talk | |
| "Hey Now" | 76 | — | — | — | ||
| 1965 | "Look of Love" | 27 | — | — | — | |
| "All My Life" | 71 | — | — | — | The Golden Hits of Lesley Gore | |
| "Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows "Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows" is a popular song sung by Lesley Gore. It was originally released on Gore's 1963 album Lesley Gore Sings of Mixed-Up Hearts. The song was composed by Marvin Hamlisch. It was arranged by Claus Ogerman and produced by Quincy Jones. The tune peaked at #13 on the... " |
13 | — | — | — | Lesley Gore Sings of Mixed-Up Hearts | |
| "My Town, My Guy, and Me" | 32 | — | — | — | My Town, My Guy, and Me | |
| "I Won't Love You Anymore (Sorry)" | 80 | — | — | — | Lesley Gore Sings All About Love | |
| 1966 | "We Know We're in Love" | 76 | — | — | — | |
| "Young Love" | 50 | — | — | — | ||
| "Off and Running" | 108 | — | — | — | California Nights | |
| "Treat Me Like a Lady" | 115 | — | — | — | ||
| 1967 | "California Nights" | 16 | — | — | — | |
| "Summer and Sandy" | 65 | — | — | — | Lesley Gore Golden Hits, Vol. 2 | |
| "Brink of Disaster" | 82 | — | — | — | Magic Colors (unreleased) | |
| "Magic Colors" | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1968 | "Small Talk" | 124 | — | — | — | non-album single |
| "He Gives Me Love (La, La, La)" | 119 | — | — | — | Lesley Gore Golden Hits, Vol. 2 | |
| "I Can't Make It Without You" | 124 | — | — | — | ||
| "I'll Be Standing By" | — | — | — | — | non-album singles | |
| 1969 | "Take Good Care (Of My Heart)" | — | — | — | — | |
| "98.6-Lazy Day" | — | 36 | — | — | ||
| "Wedding Bell Blues" | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1970 | "Why Doesn't Love Make Me Happy" | — | 39 | — | — | |
| "Come Softly to Me" | — | — | — | — | ||
| "When Yesterday Was Tomorrow" | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1971 | "Back Together" | — | — | — | — | |
| 1972 | "She Said That" | — | — | — | — | Someplace Else Now |
| 1975 | "Immortality" | — | — | — | — | Love Me by Name |
| "Sometimes" (with The Brothers Johnson) | — | — | — | — | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | ||||||
B-sides
| Year | Song | Peak chart positions | A-side |
|---|---|---|---|
| US |
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| 1964 | "Sometimes I Wish I Were a Boy" | 86 | "Hey Now" |
Television appearances
- Ed Sullivan Show (Four appearances)
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- The Donna Reed ShowThe Donna Reed ShowThe Donna Reed Show is an American sitcom starring Donna Reed as the upper middle class housewife Donna Stone. Carl Betz appears as her pediatrician husband Alex, and Shelley Fabares and Paul Petersen as their teenage children Mary and Jeff. The show originally aired on ABC at 10 pm from September...
(appeared as herself in the final episode of the series on 3/19/66, performing "It's My Party" and "We Know We're In Love") - BatmanBatman (TV series)Batman is an American television series, based on the DC comic book character of the same name. It stars Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin — two crime-fighting heroes who defend Gotham City. It aired on the American Broadcasting Company network for three seasons from January 12, 1966 to...
(starring as "Pussycat") – her hit "California Nights" was introduced on this show, in the episode "That Darn Catwoman." - Club 1270, a teen-oriented dance-party television show on WXYZ-TVWXYZ-TVWXYZ-TV, channel 7, is an ABC-affiliated television station in Detroit, Michigan, USA. WXYZ-TV is owned by the E.W. Scripps Company, and is the media company's largest-market TV station property...
in Detroit ("1270" was a reference to the frequency of WXYZ-AM radio, a leading Top 40 station in the Detroit area at the time, now WXYT.) - The Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarsonThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarsonThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under the Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night....
- Shindig!Shindig!Shindig! was an American musical variety series which aired on ABC from September 16, 1964 to January 8, 1966. The show was hosted by Jimmy O'Neill, a disc jockey in Los Angeles at the time who also created the show along with his wife Sharon Sheeley and production executive Art Stolnitz....
- Hullabaloo
- What's My Line?What's My Line?What's My Line? is a panel game show which originally ran in the United States on the CBS Television Network from 1950 to 1967, with several international versions and subsequent U.S. revivals. The game tasked celebrity panelists with questioning contestants in order to determine their occupations....
- Days of our LivesDays of our LivesDays of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...
- Sha Na NaSha Na NaSha Na Na is an American rock and roll group. The name is taken from a part of the long series of nonsense syllables in the doo-wop hit song "Get a Job", originally recorded in 1957 by the Silhouettes....
- All My ChildrenAll My ChildrenAll My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
- Murphy BrownMurphy BrownMurphy Brown is an American situation comedy which aired on CBS from November 14, 1988, to May 18, 1998, for a total of 247 episodes. The program starred Candice Bergen as the eponymous Murphy Brown, a famous investigative journalist and news anchor for FYI, a fictional CBS television...
- Hollywood SquaresHollywood SquaresHollywood Squares is an American panel game show in which two contestants play tic-tac-toe to win cash and prizes. The "board" for the game is a 3 × 3 vertical stack of open-faced cubes, each occupied by a celebrity seated at a desk and facing the contestants...
- Dinah ShoreDinah ShoreDinah Shore was an American singer, actress, and television personality...
- The Midnight Special
- In The LifeIn The LifeIn the Life is a gay and lesbian television newsmagazine that is broadcast on PBS. It is one of public television's premiere educational programs and is nearing its 15th season on national broadcast...
(PBS) - A Capitol FourthA Capitol FourthA Capitol Fourth is a free annual concert performed on the west lawn of the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., in celebration of the Independence Day. Broadcast live on PBS and NPR, the concert is viewed and heard by millions across The United States and the world, as well as...
- Gay USAGay USAGay USA is a weekly one-hour news program "...devoted to in-depth coverage of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues" on a local, state, national, and international level. It is filmed in the studios of, and aired by, Manhattan Neighborhood Network in Manhattan, New York...
- The T.A.M.I. ShowThe T.A.M.I. ShowT.A.M.I. Show is a 1964 concert film, released by American International Pictures. It includes performances by numerous popular rock and roll and R&B musicians from the United States and England...