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Mark. View member profile	16th February 2015, 09:40 PM Post #1
BuzzJack Platinum Member Joined: 27 August 2008 Posts: 7,381 User: 6,928	Singer Lesley Gore whose biggest hit was It's My Party also a hit in 1981 for Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin has died. http://variety.com/2015/music/news/lesley-...ter-1201434894/ XsYJyVEUaC4


Mark. View member profile	16th February 2015, 09:40 PM Post #2
BuzzJack Platinum Member Joined: 27 August 2008 Posts: 7,381 User: 6,928	JDUjeR01wnU


Mark. View member profile	16th February 2015, 09:40 PM Post #3
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Popchartfreak View member profile	16th February 2015, 09:52 PM Post #4
BuzzJack Legend Joined: 18 July 2012 Posts: 22,841 User: 17,376	now that is very sad, I admired Lesley a lot, You Don't Own Me was a defiant girl anthem at a time when that was a very rare thing, and it's brilliant, a massively under-rated song for a 17-year-old to sing. Maybe I know was also great fun, along with It's My Party, she co-wrote Out Here On My Own from the Fame movie, and was one of Catwoman's singing minions in the Batman TV series of the 60's. Oh and she was gay. If you only google one thing she did, make it You Don't Own Me and think of a 17-year-old singing it who's not into men..


Coral5 View member profile	17th February 2015, 05:39 AM Post #5
PTTP Joined: 30 April 2012 Posts: 4,806 User: 16,865	F**k to the cancer. "Maybe I Know" was my "Song Of The Year" for 1964. zBBVkF7IV3o It's a very painful thing to lost legendary female singers. R.I.P. Lesley.


poppet15 View member profile	17th February 2015, 12:17 PM Post #6
UKs Biggest European Music fan Joined: 20 March 2006 Posts: 3,831 User: 285	"It's My Party" was followed by many other hits, including the sequel "Judy's Turn to Cry" (US No. 5); "She's a Fool" (US No. 5); the protofeminist million-selling "You Don't Own Me," which held at No. 2 for three weeks behind the Beatles' "I Want To Hold Your Hand"; "That's the Way Boys Are" (US No. 12); "Maybe I Know" (US No. 14/UK No. 20); "Look of Love" (US No. 27); and Grammy-nominated "Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows" (US No. 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." In all she had 22 Top 100 hits in the US between 1963 & 1968. Unfortunately she only had 2 UK hits. It's My Party #9 in 1964 and Maybe I Know #20 in 1964. 3 of my favourites were Judy's Turn To Cry - Sunshine Lollipops & Rainbows - You Don't Own Me FvPO2gJU4aI Ms4KTpdx1wY R.I.P. Lesley This post has been edited by poppet15: 17th February 2015, 12:24 PM


fiesta View member profile	17th February 2015, 01:36 PM Post #7
BuzzJack Enthusiast Joined: 15 March 2006 Posts: 1,630 User: 232	QUOTE(popchartfreak @ Feb 16 2015, 09:52 PM) now that is very sad, I admired Lesley a lot, You Don't Own Me was a defiant girl anthem at a time when that was a very rare thing, and it's brilliant, a massively under-rated song for a 17-year-old to sing. Maybe I know was also great fun, along with It's My Party, she co-wrote Out Here On My Own from the Fame movie, and was one of Catwoman's singing minions in the Batman TV series of the 60's. Oh and she was gay. If you only google one thing she did, make it You Don't Own Me and think of a 17-year-old singing it who's not into men.. The irony being that like a lot of the feminist anthems of the era, it was written by men.


Popchartfreak View member profile	17th February 2015, 06:55 PM Post #8
BuzzJack Legend Joined: 18 July 2012 Posts: 22,841 User: 17,376	QUOTE(fiesta @ Feb 17 2015, 01:36 PM) The irony being that like a lot of the feminist anthems of the era, it was written by men. True, though at least Carole King paved the way forward during this period (she wrote the music, her husband wrote the lyrics) and Ellie Greenwich (with husband Jeff Barry) as actual female songwriters - including Lesley Gore's Maybe I Know. Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Laura Nyro were soon flying that flag by the late 60's with no male help needed at all for the songs. Yay!


Suedehead2 View member profile	22nd December 2015, 11:00 AM Post #9
BuzzJack Legend Joined: 13 April 2007 Posts: 36,675 User: 3,272	QUOTE(Mark. @ Feb 16 2015, 09:40 PM) JDUjeR01wnU I'd forgotten that Lesley Gore died this year. With a new version of You Don't Own Me riding high in the chart, now seems to be an appropriate time to remind people of her original version.