Mary died yesterday, January 19, 2024. I am very, very sad. Condolences to her sister, Elizabeth.

HER VOICE was legendary and one-of-a-kind. No one sounds even close!

Mary wasn't "just" a singer -- she was an actress. If she'd been around during the days of radio dramas, she'd have been an award-winner. Incredibly talented.

yes, youtube is the best thing for music lovers of all ages.

Walking In the Sand remains one the greatest records ever produced.

the lead singer has such an amazing voice...love that these were the visions of "tough girls" lol

The one and only Shangri-las. Greatest girl group of them all.

RIP Mary Weiss (1948-2024)

The Shangri Las pre date me. I can remember hating their music as a youngster but fell in love with it as an adult. They were totally unique and talented. RIP Ganser twins. Continued happiness to Mary and Betty.

"I had enough pain in me at the time to pull off anything...you can hear it on the performances, ...was so easy for me" then at 3.05 that beautiful smile. She certainly eases my pain. God bless you Mary.

Damn these chicks were awesome.

Mary is recording again and still sounds excellent! Because she started so young, she is still younger than Cher, Deborah Harry, Diana Ross etc. She can still rock!

Remember, Walking in the Sand! i never get tired listing to this song! they sing and perform so great ! love this song ! they know how to keep perfect harmony! amazing what they can do!

Holy crap.After all these years Mary still looks fantastic.I so loved her songs.I grew up listining to her music and so many of the songs my mother grew up with when she was a teenager.I so love the music from the 50's and 60's.If I had one wish I wish to go back in time of the 50's.All the great looking GREASERS,Dance to all the great music like The twist,My Boyfriends back,And of course Leader Of The Pack and many more.I'm 30 I keep telling my mom she gave birth to me the wrong year.Born 1979.

R.I.P. Shadow Morton...2-16-13. Worked with Janis Ian and others, most famously with Shangri-las. Left us with classic recordings that captured teen angst of the early 1960s.

Beautiful voice from a beautiful woman!

2:05 Mary is so confident and cute... its amazing to think how young she was.

Underrated girl group

The great Mary Weiss....so fabulous and like many of the girls I ran around with then.

thanks for posting this!!Great to see Mary,Shadow,Leiber,Stoller,Jeff and Ellie in this video.Mary seems to be very easy going and approachable.Love her new CD!!Glad she's finally back!!!

Happy birthday to Mary, 28th December. thank you sooooooo much

Very impressive! I love their sound. Too bad their singing careers were so short lived.

Amazing footage. Thank-you for sharing...there is something about 'being present in the moment' that you can really see in Mary Weiss and her performance. If you can find the clip of her singing leader of the pack with Robert Goulet doing a cameo on a motorcycle you will see it. She seems to live the song and makes you believe it.

I think Mary Weiss had a Mary Travers vibe going on. This band had such a unique sound with that cool sense of drama and urgency like Del Shannon songs had.

wow, wow, wow...beautiful girls singing their hearts out and looking like they were havein an awful lot of fun. thank you for an awesome posting. i loved the old footage in the recording studio.

One of the greatest unplugged rock and roll bands of all time

R.I.P. Mary...a legend.

Thank you Shangri-la for coming to my father's Carvel in queen's NY 💕 💞 many years ago.

Mid 60's time warp. This defined our lives when this came out. It was an amazing song for the time, sung by the right girl. Rarely do the stars come into perfect alignment, they did for this song. Mary, how does it feel knowing every guy alive back then worships you?

This was the root of my music, just listening to it again sends my soul soaring! Being from Ozone Park, I was there to hear them before they hit the big time, and my cousin was involved with the same music scene. His name was Ricky Racano, of Ricky and the Vacels. I will never forget how Mary made me swoon, listening as a young boy on my way to Rockaway Beach with my older sisters. There is a genre of music to which we all belonged, Northeast Tin Pan Alley blues/rocknroll and it re defined pop forever. I still adore this music, which is 1,000 times more important now in the digital world of pitch transposers and such. And Billy Joel played session for them as an unknown? Too much! Check out my music too-

Mary was and is so gorgeous. I think she knew my father. They're from roughly the same part of town and his band was touring in the same circles during the same years. I think he would have certainly been a rock star. Unfortunately the Vietnam draft had different plans.

I can't believe one of them died so young. So sad. I love their music. Great girl group.

Hi Mary. I was about 8 years old when your band was flying. I didn't even know it existed until I discovered it on You Tube afew years ago, as I checked out old bands. I bought a DVD of your band and i just love it. I blast it in my car, and when my grown kids tell me its corny, I tell them I don't care! lol Just know you are still making fans. Love and hugs to you and yours, Susie.

16 years ago, I was only 4 1/2 months old when this was posted

Good evening my friend I was born in 1955 I grow up with her music 🎶 to This is the best era of there time RIP mary This music 🎵🎶 today is garbage to Am still listening to this music in July of 2024 to

DAZZA B thank you for this litle interview with one of the greater voice ever Mary Weiss at the golden years of the pop music of the 60 so much feeling to sing out with so much love love it still thinking she is the only one of The Shangri-las no one is like them I was 17 a teenager in New York City oldies but good WABC radio local station now I'm oldman 73 but good listener really enjoy it all they music os Shangri-las for ever more .2019 love it .

Mary Weiss --incredible female rock singer. "Leader of the Pack" -- right up there with "Heartbreak Hotel" as a track that shook people up when released. Some say I'm crazy - if it's not true, why did many try to emulate & parody it. This group performed along side The Beatles & toured in '64 with The Stones. Heyday was 5 years & when the British Invasion was in full swing. Yet, they survived. No mean feat. Listen to their tunes today. Few sound dated. Angst that even Lou Reed could appreciate.

Mary your songs are what keeps me going all day. You are a beautiful woman.

Brooklyn Fox Theater 1964, the Murray the K show, they were great! My older sister took me there.

The shangrilas music is classic I'm a millenial but I'm obsessed to them.

One of the best from the 60s.

If they were talking bout the guy with the hat in the studio yeahh,I'd agree ,he is a timeless masterpiece producer!!! These girls were way ahead of time,breakin new grounds for timeless masterpieces!!! I love the shangrilas!!!

Rest in Peace Beautiful Mary💜💛

So madly in love with Mary Weiss! even my 2 yrs old and 6 yrs old kids crazy 4 you! it's a routine in our house to sing "Give him a great big kiss" and "Right now , Not later Baby" with a matching dance step!

Mary is the queen of rock n roll! Long live Mary Weiss! Love it!

Lana del Rey is trying for Mary Weiss's look, but Mary Weiss has the wounded look of a young Julie Christie. Mary bloomed twenty years too early. The Shangrilas were huge, okay, but MTV would have made Mary a solo superstar. I was a Shangrila fan yet today is the first time I ever saw a picture of Mary Weiss. You barely knew what singers looked like in sixty four, apart from a head shot on an album cover. I am amazed.

I had such a crush on her in 64 wow they are fantastic!

It was an absolutely great song; one of the best of the era.

Amazing rare footage here.

Mary Weiss has a wonderful voice.....the Shangri-Las are one of a kind

Still sexy af.

Thank you Dazza b I love this .. Mary is so great..

It was a very corny lyric but the sea gulls, the intensity of the vocals and the drama that only the Shangs could produce made it a classic.

Very good group. I really love the song” walking in the sand”

RIP Mary Weiss

I listened to the Shangri-Las and Betty Jayne and The Teenettes all Summer 2022

The good old times. They never come back. I miss the 50th and the 60th. I'm glad, that we have now KZfaq.

They were all so lovely.

Love this..

Well there she is, let's ask her.

Mary you are GREAT!!!!

RIP Mary.

amazing. legends.

I still remember when I first saw a photo of them. I was shocked. Had heard them on the radio a hundred times, and always assumed they were black.

No two ways about it, that Mary Weiss has got to be one of the best singers of all time, and that includes Dinah Washington,Billy Holiday and Ronnie Spector. Aw hell, she's right up there with the best of them! God Bless Shadow Morton, one of the greatest artists ever!!!

Loved these girls ever since I first saw them on T of T Pops

those red bird records, my treasures . i was a die hard fan of the trio sometime quartet. it wasn't meant to be . i went to turnstyle in so lawrence for walking in the rain by the ronettes ended up with walking in the sand by shangri-las ...then fell in love , lost an lp cover, had two lps disappear leaving me with the cover with the four drawings of the gals...i had such bad luck with their records. keepin them from breaking. ..listening now puts me in a trance. i could probably weep...those tough b's were my friends...watchin that lp go round...loved them. sad to hear the twins marge and maryann have passed...

Love you Mary !

her and RONNIE my favs!

I love these girls Mary I'm 53 and you still make me smile 🌹

I remember p.s. 182 Brooklyn NY 2 grade teacher mrs. Weinberg

cool performance,I always liked these songs,somebody oughta start writting 'em again.They stir *deep emotions*

AWESOME

Won my heart back then! Thoroughly enjoy today! South Oyster Bay Road Huh?

Yes, but she is also a great performer. She invests in it and it shows.

Enough compression artifacts to start a museum but thanks for posting, great to hear from Mary and Shadow on this strange track.

WOW MARY LOOKS GREAT!

great band

With all due respect to the late Jerry Leiber, one of my favorite lyricists of all time, this was no more "corny" than the hipster jive he wrote for The Coasters. As for Greg Shaw calling this "fake", there was NOTHING fake about this wonderful music. If you want fake images go listen to heavy metal. A very disrespectful and possibly sexist comment. I think Shadow Morton and Mary Weiss were close to musical geniuses and the Ganser twins were by far the most interesting background singers of any vocal group I can think of. And yeah they're cute as hell too.

@Dazza B - great sound mix, you do outstanding work, dummy

Why haven't The Shangri-las been even considered for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?!?!?!

Theres some legends in this footage Mary Weiss, Shadow Morton, Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller and the co-writers (disputed) of Leader Of The Pack: Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich who sadly passed away this week.

Rest in peace to all 4 now.

Bro you are the best you making videos 2006

She was cute and a great singer🎈

Love your hair do's Mary Weiss!!

great voice

Aside from Mary’s amazing singing voice, I can’t get over her strong resemblance to British model, Kate Moss. Someone once said the Shangri-Las created punk.

Lolita comes to mind. God bless her!

This girls were hard working girls. That blonde guy didn't know what he was talking about! They deserve their props.

Check the B-52 doo! Great sound! Ah, great memories!

Something is wrong with this video. It keeps going silent every time it cuts to the black and white footage!

It's nice to see Lloyd Thaxton again as well!!

OMG.. I have had a crush on Mary since the band. . I guess I was the fan boy of the 1960s for these chicks..

Mary Weiss, herself, met my ex husband when he was a young teenager. She developed a slight crush on him and he was quite smitten by her attention but he was too young. That occasion was the inspiration to the Shangri-las song, "The Boy."

Her sexy voice and such cute face. She's what you call a doll. I wish she would had been in films, 3000

This was from the A&E documentary from 2001 about the Brill Building songwriters (Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield, et. al.

When they were topping the charts, I was born. But, what beautiful girls from Queens? They are the sexiest.

1:53 anyone know where this interview is?

The roots of Amy Winehouse! Does anyone know the title of this documentary?