On May 30, 1963 — 51 years ago today — a New Jersey teenager - TopicsExpress

On May 30, 1963 — 51 years ago today — a New Jersey teenager named Lesley Gore made her first appearance on American Bandstand singing her hit-to-be, Its My Party. Lesley Gore (née Lesley Sue Goldstein) was just a few weeks past her own 17th birthday when she performed one of the greatest teen-drama songs of all time on American Bandstand. Just three months earlier, she was an unsigned unknown performing anywhere she got the chance when Quincy Jones, then a staff producer with Mercury Records, saw and heard her in a Manhattan nightclub. In late February, Jones sat with Gore in her familys suburban living room and helped her select Its My Party from among hundreds of demos hed brought for her to consider. Six weeks later, Gores debut single was finished and pressed, and soon thereafter it was on its way to the top of the pop charts — an achievement reached in the week immediately following her Bandstand performance. Though she was later nominated for an Oscar for co-writing the song Out Here On My Own from the movie Fame (1980), and though she continues to perform to this day, Lesley Gore clearly made her biggest mark with Its My Party and its immediate follow-ups, including Judys Turn To Cry, Shes A Fool, You Dont Own Me and Thats The Way Boys Are. Taken together, those records constituted a kind of proto-feminist song cycle that paved the way for more overtly liberated pop songs to come — songs like Respect, I Am Woman and I Will Survive. Here, Gore performs her hit in 1965. Thanks History

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