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I think this record is one of the highest forms of pop music, it just doesn't get more perfect than this. Brilliantly written, sung, arranged, played....everything. You might hear "It's My Party" or "Sunshine, Lollipops, & Rainbows" on oldies radio, but rarely this one, and I think it's a damn shame. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9UomHul178

Damn right.
She recorded lots of great stuff. Even her latter day output was quite decent. Big fan.

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Your guys are brilliant!  I get chills with every note of MIK--haunting, crazy shift from major to minor--just everything you could dream of in a song for high holy heaven's sake!

Next to California Nights my favorite Lesley Gore record to crack the Top 20. It's great to know she still sings both of 'em now.


Probably my alltime favorite of hers....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXnBrvvYoZk

My favourite tracks of hers right now is "The Old Crowd".  :listening



Beautiful girl, too. I guess I'm not the only one who is reminded of the gorgeous (young & 'baby fat') Gillian Anderson?  :love

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Her T.A.M.I. Show performance is really showstopping.  Just incredible.

Maybe I Know and California Nights are great. The only non-60s song I have from her is her cover of ACDC's "Dirty Deeds Done Dirty Cheap"!

Maybe I Know is great, but I think there are plenty of great records by Gore waiting to be discovered by Beach Boys fans unfamiliar with her work. Good catchy songwriting, sharp production, and Gore's strong unique voice were a tremendous combination. How about this one?   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5vgWxmEanE

Man, I was saying THE SAME DAMN THING about 4 months ago on here.  Nobody even replied.  She's fucking amazing, I was trying to see if anybody would discuss whether or not she had perfect pitch.  I think she probably did, all of her vocals had that weird shimmering quality that vocals have when they're in perfect pitch as opposed to relative pitch. 

Maybe I know is great, I love the backup vocals in the "He really loooooves me! That's all I can say!" part.  Blows me away. 

Word up, I was gonna post this. What a voice! Nobody sings like that anymore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0y1Rr5kPII

Nice stuff. Who do you suppose really wrote all her songs?

Just look at the writers' credits. The highest calibre of professional pop writers -  Greenwich, Barry, Mark Barkan, Marvin Hamlisch, David White & John Madara etc.

But also worth pointing out that increasingly toward the end of the '60s, she co-wrote (with her brother Michael) and recorded her own songs. I think her albums on Mowest and A&M are either entirely self-written or almost so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbObaJ4Yae4 - "I'm Fallin' Down," the B-side of "Summer and Sandy," is one such example from '67, and a prime example of her work from the period when Bob Crewe produced her. Unusual chord changes, even more unusual, dissonant arrangement by Hutch Davie. From '67 to '69 LG had increasing trouble getting airplay or sales for her work, and she couldn't get Mercury to green-light her to do an album. But those records are nearly all superb.

Anyone seen her cameo on the old Batman series? Robin has been kidnapped, and Catwoman is attempting to brainwash him into joining her nefarious gang. Of course, Leslie has feelings for Robin.

"You're either going to be a singer, or an arch criminal. You can't be both."

California Nights.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7KXePXj1j0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7KXePXj1j0)

I like...her ears.

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I always loved that song, maybe it's just that it was stuck in my memory from all those years as a kid watching Batman.....and Julie Newmar definitely caused the first stirrings in my utility belt.

That's such a true statement. I just came off a Lesley Gore binge, I must have went through that boxset five times.

Here's a very recent discovery. Lesley ripping it up totally live - from the same closed-circuit special that featured The Beatles in Washington and The Beach Boys "lost concert":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPzpdod-jZ4

I do like her voice but this song is just not good.

Lesley Gore covered "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"???    Either you're kidding, or I really need to hear that!    :lol

EDIT:  Indeed she did - just found it  http://youtu.be/pusgdcX2D54     :lol

I totally agree that "Maybe I Know" is hellishly addictive. Love that tune.


Holy sh*t. :3d

Lots of great songs and great recordings.   Much more than just a passing fad.  Didn't hurt that her first producer was Quincy Jones.

the same album also has Herman's Hermits singing Billy Idol's "White Wedding" and the Box Tops doing "Call Me" by Blondie.

And also the Oak Ridge Boys singing "Carry On My Wayward Son," Billy Preston doing "Girls On Film,"  and the piece de resistance, Don Ho covering "Shock The Monkey." There really should have been an album of Don singing all doomy New Wave favorites...."It's A Sin," "Tainted Love," "Bela Lugosi's Dead,"  etc...and for the record, he also performed the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" on Conan O'Brien's show in the mid 90s.