Lesley Gore

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".



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[hide]  *1 Early life  ==Early life[ edit] == 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.
 * 2 1960s career
 * 3 Later career
 * 4 Personal life
 * 5 Discography
 * 5.1 Studio albums
 * 5.2 Compilation albums
 * 5.3 Singles
 * 5.4 B-sides
 * 6 Television appearances
 * 7 References
 * 8 External links

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[ edit] == "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",<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-The_Book_of_Golden_Discs_4-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[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.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">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.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Sun-Times_5-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">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 Hamlisch 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".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]  Other Hamlisch tracks recorded by Gore were "That's the Way the Ball Bounces", recorded September 21, 1963 at A&R Studios, New York, NY, released as the B-side of "That's the Way Boys Are" and appearing on the LP "Boys Boys Boys"; and "One by One", an unreleased track recorded on July 31, 1969 in New York, produced by Paul Leka, first appearing on the Bear Family five-CD anthology of Gore's Mercury work titled, It's My Party (1994).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">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".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Sun-Times_5-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[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 single peaked at number 16 in March 1967 (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.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">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.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After high school, while continuing to work, Gore attended Sarah Lawrence College and studied English and American literature; she graduated in 1968.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8] ==Later career<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">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.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9]  Michael won the Academy Awardfor Best Original Song for the theme song of the same film.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Gore played concerts and appeared on television throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">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.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">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 theButlins Company TV advertisements in 2008 and for the Target Australia homewares TV advertisement in 2010. ==Personal life<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Beginning in 2004, Gore hosted the PBS television series In the Life, which focused on LGBT issues.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2005interview_10-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10]  She stated in a 2005 interview that she was a lesbian.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2005interview_10-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10]  At the time of the interview, Gore had been living with her partner for more than 23 years.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2005interview_10-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10] ==Discography<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Studio albums<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Compilation albums<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Singles<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===B-sides<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==Television appearances<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * The Ed Sullivan Show (Four appearances)
 * American Bandstand
 * The Mike Douglas Show
 * The Andy Williams Show
 * Merv Griffin Show
 * The Donna Reed Show (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")
 * Batman (starring as "Pussycat") – her hit "California Nights" was introduced on this show, in the episode "That Darn Catwoman."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Sun-Times_5-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]
 * Club 1270, a teen-oriented dance-party television show on WXYZ-TV 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 Carson
 * Shindig!
 * Hullabaloo
 * What's My Line?
 * Days of our Lives
 * Sha Na Na
 * All My Children
 * Murphy Brown
 * Hollywood Squares
 * Dinah Shore
 * The Midnight Special
 * In The Life (PBS)
 * A Capitol Fourth
 * Gay USA
 * The T.A.M.I. Show (feature film, 1964)