Wonderful to see her live Beautiful still have all my 45s

DAmned cancer

I met Lesley Gore and her brother Micheal Gore, serendipitously, at The Riviera Café in NYC in 1980. Both of them were absolutely charming.

LOL I THOUGHT THE SAME THING

YES! The 'is it true' almost always followed by 'are you gay' 🤣🤣🤣

She was a lesbian as well! So inspiring.

I’m 22 and I have fallen in love too 😂

Actually, I think you missed it too. Connie Francis was the first female Rock N Roll singer. In was 1958 and she scored gold with "Stupid Cupid." It even topped the charts in England--number 1 on their hit parade. And the hits just kept on keeping on from there. I liked Lesley too, but let's not forget Connie first, Brenda second, and then Lesley came on the scene.

1 number hit almost two but this band named the beatles took that spot

Imagine growing up and worshipping this woman.I did and it never ended.

@@jerryboucher5622 Yes, she was one of a kind. I could see how a guy could fall in love with her.

Very handsome,talented and smart guy

Thank you

@@frankshuffitt3925 what

@@celso2843 I was 11 years old the first time I heard her pretty much loved her music,just as good now as it was then didn't know she was gone till l l stumbled across this, l was in love with most of the girl groups. Take care.

Laura Cohen and from what I've read a great human being!

The best Laura.

Absolutely true 💖

I am very curious as to what you mean by that.

Here's the Gene Pitney interview: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gth-ds-VrayRgWw.html

Thomas Timlin - Agree. My favs were 'California Nights,' 'Maybe I Know' and 'You Don't Own Me.' I think 'It's My Party' and the sequel, 'Judy's Turn To Cry' were bigger hits because they were easier to dance to, lol.

I totally agree. California Nights is a great song. I like She's A Fool too.

Agree! California Nights is incredible. A lesser known song. The Look Of Love is a simple pop song, i know, but something about it is so charming and gives me little chills! Look how upbeat and delightful Lesley is here all these years later. Love her. She's someone special!

You’re cuter

But she was especially talented and espressive

"You Don't Own Me" live by Lesley Gore, should be able to find it. It sounds like the recording though...

@@rickenbacker315 i obviously meant that particular performance and clip lol

@@babbisp1 Try "you don't own me" Lesley Gore 1963

@@babbisp1 and @Rick Barnes - The video you are looking for is from American Bandstand, 1966. The reason you can't find the entire performance on YT is because Dick Clark Productions owns the copyrights and they are very strict about usage. I've been lucky DCP hasn't taken my video down. Here's the interview from that show on the DCP channel, but no performance! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qr6ipK6qzN7HfX0.html

@@rickenbacker315 see my reply to babbisp1

I think it was pretty standard in pop artists' contracts back then (unless they were able to negotiate otherwise) that all costs of recording their record would come out of the artist's cut of the sales profits. So even if the record sold well, it might be a little while before the artist would see any money from it. And if the record didn't do well enough financially to reimburse the "expenses" of recording, the artist would be on the hook to the record company for the balance.

That's WHY all artists should to hire (separate from the record company) THEIR OWN (a) accountant (b) music attorney (c) PR team. Give them a percentage of their income. After her 1st hit Lesley was in a strong bargining position and should have put this team in place. They took FULL advantage of her (as they did so many others) because of this. See her comment here where she says "...and I was one of lucky ones...". I'm glad she fought them and got something. She made millions for them and should have asked for an audit. Ripping off the artist back then was a common occurance because many were young kids and/or didn't know how the music business "worked" and they took FULL advantage (same thing happened to the Beatles) of them @@johndipinto8816

not in her lifetime .. maybe the next one

@babbisp1 See my explanation under your question. 😉

Thats incredibly untrue I don’t know where you got this information

No, No, and No. Gillian Anderson is the daughter of Rosemary "Posie" Alyce (née Lane).

Gore was never married .. at least not to a man

Most songs sung by women... about men... were written by men. Especially in the 60's and 70's.

Read "Strange Scenes Inside The Canyon" for the answer to this.

maybe they were closet gays ??? perhaps ??? Leslie was, but did not advertise it -- it would have killed her career

@@rhuephus I already answered the poster's question above. Don't need an ignorant homophobic comment.

thomas actually every album after her first has feminist undertones in my opinion. Also, don’t you know she was a lesbian?

@Christine Wesson Oh he wasn't? What was he then? Be sure to cite your source of info because last I heard, Glasgow is a city in Scotland.

if one is born in Scotland ... that makes one Scottish

oh yeah .. what does Donovan have to do with Leslie Gore ???

@@rhuephus Try actually watching the video from the beginning and reading the info underneath. Question answered.

I read he is scottish

@Amoriah Donovan was born in Glasgow, which makes him officially Scottish. His grandmothers may have been Irish, but that would only account for 1/4 Irish blood.

Period

I listen to blues from the 20s and 30s, and I hear rock music roots, long before the 60s

wow ... what part of "rock n roll' did YOU invent ???

So you're a racist? Plain and simple. Get your hatred out of your system, playing the dumb race card.