637 Lesley Gore (1946-2015) “It’s My Party” 1963

“Lesley Gore was born in Brooklyn into an upwardly mobile Jewish family, which soon moved to Tenafly, New Jersey, where she attended high school at the Dwight School for Girls. In middle school she had joined a girl group; by high school, where she sang in the chorus, her talent as a singer was apparent. She begged her parents for a vocal coach. They hired one, and he was impressed enough to take Gore to a music studio, where she recorded a small number of songs to pass around to her family. A cousin gave one of these records to a bandleader, who invited Gore to perform at a gig where the president of Mercury Records was seated in the audience” (Terri Schlichenmeyer, The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, March-April 2016). 

Lesley Gore “It’s My Party”