Lesley Gore
10 articles
Audio interviews
Interview by Ira Robbins, Rock's Backpages audio, June 1994
Ms. Gore talks about her current live show, including her old hits, and the musicians she works with; being part of pop music as a teenager; how she was discovered, and being produced by Quincy Jones; 'It’s My Party’ followed by ‘Judy’s Turn To Cry’; the power of ’You Don’t Own Me’; what handclaps lend to a song, and Bob Crewe stamping his feet; the fear of performing in the early days; going to college at height of her success; beating Phil Spector to ‘It’s My Party’, and not changing her name.
File format: mp3; file size: 29.5mb, interview length: 30' 42" sound quality: ***
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TAMI, Electronovision's Latest, Gets N.Y. Showing
Report by uncredited writer, Billboard, 21 November 1964
PRESS, TEENERS GET EYEFUL ...
Lesley Gore is Set For Stardom
Profile by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 21 September 1963
WHO IS the young pop artist most like to hit the highest spots this year? ...
Obituary by Dave Laing, The Guardian, 17 February 2015
Singer whose passionate teen anthems of the '60s included 'It's My Party' and 'You Don't Own Me'. ...
Live Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 26 October 1963
ALTHOUGH IT'S billed as "The Greatest Record Show Of 1963", the first performance at Finsbury Park Astoria last Sunday didn't exactly bear witness to that. ...
Lesley Gore: Parties Are Lucky For Lesley
Profile and Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 14 June 1963
MAKING HER chart bow this week with 'It's My Party', attractive Lesley Gore actually owes her disc success to the occasion she sang a song ...
Lesley Gore: The Singing Rebel
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 28 June 1963
IT'S THE BEATLES' favourite disc of the moment and it's sung by a 17-year-old American girl who had a genteel upbringing in the sedate neighbourhood ...
Retrospective by Steven R Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 29 October 2004
THE ROLLING Stones were there, along with James Brown, the Beach Boys, the Supremes, Chuck Berry, Marvin Gaye and more, filmed live before their screaming ...
Lesley Gore: They Don't Own Her
Report by Dave Marsh, Let It Rock, July 1975
IN 1964, A seventeen-year-old freshman named Lesley Gore put out her first record, 'It's My Party (And I'll Cry If I Want To)'. It was ...
Sleeve notes by Gene Sculatti, Rhino Records, 1986
Hey, come on in. Glad you could make it. Gonna be a great party (take your coat?) Lesley'll be here in a minute. She's over ...
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