Lesley Gore Biography, Photos and Posters

Lesley Gore

Biography

Born: May 2, 1946
City and Country of Origin: New York City, New York
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Top Recordings: "It's My Party," "Judy's Turn to Cry," "She's a Fool," "You Don't Own Me," "That's the Way Boys Are," "Maybe I Know," "Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows," "California Nights"
Lesley Gore Biography: In 1963, American singer-songwriter Lesley Sue Goldstein aka Leslie Gore recorded her first hit single "It's My Party," at the age of 16 while she was a junior at the Dwight School for Girls in Englewood, NJ. She was born in New York City, but grew up in Tenafly, NJ. More hits like: "Judy's Turn to Cry," "She's a Fool," "You Don't Own Me," "That's The Way Boys Are," "Maybe I Know," "The Look Of Love" and "Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows," were soon to follow under the direction of her, then unknown, record producer Quincy Jones.

Gore turned down television and movie contracts to attend Sarah Lawrence Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. This limited her performing career to weekends and summers. In spite of this Gore remained one of the most popular female recording artists of the mid 1960s. Her career went into demise with the advent of edgier hard-edged psychedelic music in the late 60s. Her last hit was the Bob Crewe-produced "California Nights", which she performed on the January 19, 1967, episode of the Batman TV series, in which she guest-starred as Pink Pussycat, one of Catwoman's minions. She continued to perform at concerts and nightclubs until 2005 when her recording career was revived when she recorded her first album of new material since 1976 (Love Me By Name) — Ever Since — with producer/songwriter Blake Morgan for Engine Company Records (a small independent label). 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 a film: "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. It was in 2005 that she admitted that she was a lesbian, something she did not fully accept until she was in her 20s.

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