She was not on the list.
Lesley Gore, best known for singing the 1960s hits "It's My Party," "Judy's Turn to Cry" and "You Don't Own Me," has died. She was 68.
Gore died Monday in New York City after a battle with
cancer, said Blake Morgan, the chief executive of ECR Music Group, which
released Gore’s latest album.
While still in high school, Gore burst onto the music scene
in 1963 with "It's My Party." The Quincy Jones-produced single, a
pouty song from the perspective of a girl lamenting that the boy of her choice
has spurned her, topped the charts.
That song was followed by others, including the vengeful
sequel "Judy’s Turn to Cry," the resigned "Maybe I Know"
and the upbeat "Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows," as well as the one
that irrevocably linked her to the feminist movement: "You Don’t Own
Me."
"She was a wonderful human being — caring, giving, a
great feminist, great woman, great human being, great humanitarian," Lois
Sasson, Gore’s partner of more than three decades, told the Associated Press.
Jones, who produced several songs Gore sang, said Monday
that he was heartbroken over her passing. Recalling her teenage years, he said
in a statement: "Lesley was an incredibly soulful singer/songwriter even
at that young and that was why the world embraced her songs the way it
did."
As a songwriter, Gore worked with her brother Michael. Their
"Out Here on My Own" from the 1980 film “Fame” was nominated for an
Academy Award.
Gore also dabbled in television acting, playing the role of
Pussycat in the cult 1960s show "Batman."
Born in 1946, Gore grew up in Tenafly, N.J. After high
school, she slowed the breakneck pace of her music career as she earned a
bachelor’s degree in English and American literature at Sarah Lawrence College,
then hit the nightclub circuit.
"Oddly enough, the performer whose sound she projects
most strongly is Bing Crosby," the New York Times said in 1969. "She
has Mr. Crosby’s casual, low-throated manner of talking and in the easygoing
passages of her songs she uses a husky, glottal projection that is very
reminiscent of the old groaner in his heyday."
She appeared on Broadway in "Smokey Joe’s Cafe" in
the late 1990s.
A few years later, she was a host of "In the
Life," a PBS series that dealt with gay and lesbian issues. She publicly
came out as a lesbian around that time, and she told AfterEllen.com in 2005
that she realized it in her early 20s.
Also in 2005, she released her first album in three decades.
The jazz-, folk- and indie-tinged "Ever Since," produced by Morgan,
heavily featured new material but also revisited "You Don’t Own Me"
and "Out Here on My Own."
"Lesley was like my rock ’n’ roll godmother,"
Morgan told the Los Angeles Times, adding that he had known her since his
childhood. "It was a very courageous record for her to make, and a very
defiant one…. We toured on that record for more than two years."
Filmography
Film
Year Film Role Notes
1964 The T.A.M.I
Show Herself Documentary
1965 The Girls on
the Beach Herself Sings "Leave Me Alone" and "It's
Gotta Be You"
1965 Ski Party Herself Sings Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows"
1968 The Pied
Piper of Astroworld Bo Peep Television film
1977 Good Old Days
Herself Television
film
1985 Good Time
Rock 'n' Roll Herself Television documentary
1986 Deja View Herself
1988 Legendary
Ladies of Rock & Roll Herself
Television special
1990 Listen Up:
The Lives of Quincy Jones Herself Documentary
1991 Golden Age of
Rock 'n' Roll Herself Television documentary
1992 In the Life Herself Television documentary
1998 Quincy
Jones... The First 50 Years Herself
Television documentary
2000 Hollywood
Rocks the Movies: The Early Years 1955-1970 Herself
Television documentary
2003 Rock at Fifty
Herself Television documentary
2008 An Evening
with Quincy Jones Herself Television documentary
2008 Airplay: The
Rise and Fall of Rock Radio Herself Documentary
Television
Year Name Role Notes
1963 Club 1270 Herself A teen-oriented dance-party television show on WXYZ-TV in Detroit
("1270" was a reference to the frequency of WXYZ-AM radio, a leading
Top 40 station in the Detroit area at the time, now WXYT).
1963 The Keefe
Brasselle Show Herself
1963 American
Bandstand Herself Season 6, Episode 194, AB-1528: Lesley Gore -
aired 5/30/63.
1963–64 Thank
Your Lucky Stars Herself Recurring guest; 2 episodes
1963–70 The
Ed Sullivan Show Herself Recurring guest; 4 episodes: Season 16, Episode
3 – Other guests: Tony Bennett, Frank Gorshin, Bob & Ray – aired 10/13/63;
Season 17, Episode 18 – Other guests: Burt Lancaster, Mickey Rooney, Miriam
Makeba, Shelley Berman – aired 1/31/65; Season 21, Episode 32 – Other guests:
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Gwen Verdon; Season 22, Episode 30 – Other
guests: Richie Havens, Moms Mabley, Stiller & Meara – aired 4/26/70.
1963–75 New
American Bandstand 1965 Herself Recurring guest; 3 episodes: Season 10, Episode
31 - Other guest: The Music Machine - aired 4/8/67; Season 10, Episode 4 -
Other guest: ? (Question Mark) and the Mysterians - aired 10/1/66; Season 19,
Episode 4 - aired 9/27/75.
1964 The Beat Room
Herself
1964 The Lloyd
Thaxton Show Herself Season 4, Episode 10 – aired September 28,
1964[30]
1965 Fanfare Herself Season 1, Episode 7 – other guests: Tom Jones, Herb Alpert and the
Tijuana Brass - aired July 31, 1965
1965 Shindig! Herself Recurring guest; 2 episodes: Season 1, Episode 30 - Show 30 - April
7, 1965 - other guests: Tina Turner, Marvin Gaye, Larry Hovis, Martha and the
Vandellas, Righteous Brothers
Season 2, Episode 5 - Show 56 - September 30, 1965 - other
guests: Mickey Rooney (guest host), Major Lance, The Turtles
1965 Hollywood A
Go-Go Herself
1965–66 Hullabaloo
Herself Recurring guest; 3 episodes: Season 1, Episode 8 – Show #8 - Host:
Trini Lopez – aired 3/2/65; Season 2, Episode 7 – Show#25 – Host: Peter Noone
(of Herman's Hermits) – aired 11/1/65; Season 2, Episode 16 – Show #34 – Host:
Roger Smith – aired 1/3/66; Season 2, Episode 30 – Show #48 - Host: Paul Anka –
aired 4/11/66.
1965–70 Merv
Griffin Show Herself Recurring guest: 8 episodes: Season 2, Episode
76 – aired 8/23/65; Season 5, Episode 104 – aired 1/25/68; Season 5, Episode 157
– aired 4/9/68; Season 6, Episode 96 – aired 1/13/69; Season 6, Episode 154 –
aired 4/3/69; Season 7, Episode 162 – aired 4/2/70; Season 7, Episode 239 –
aired 7/16/70; Season 7, Episode 243 – aired 7/22/70.
1965–71 The
Mike Douglas Show Herself Recurring guest; 13 episodes: The Mike Douglas
Show Herself
Season 4: Episode 237 - aired 8/4/65, Season 5: Episode 47 -
aired 11/9/65, Season 5, Episode 216 – aired 7/11/66, Season 6: Episode 16 -
aired 9/26/66, Season 6: Episode 92 - aired 1/10/67, Season 6: Episode 176 -
aired 5/8/67, Season 7: Episode 106 - aired 1/29/68, Season 7: Episode 201 -
aired 6/10/68, Season 8: Episode 42 - aired 11/5/68, Season 8: Episode 150 -
aired 4/4/69, Season 9: Episode 25 - - aired 10/3/69, Season 9: Episode 51 -
aired 11/10/69, Season 9: Episode 136 - aired 3/9/70, Season 10: Episode 118 -
aired 2/17/71
1965 Shivaree Herself Season 2, Episode 16 – Show #48 0 aired 12/25/658.
1966 The Andy
Williams Show Herself Season 5, Episode 10 – aired November 13, 1966.
1966 The Donna
Reed Show Herself Episode 27: "By-Line--Jeff Stone" -
aired 2/19/66
1966 Where the
Action Is Herself Season 6, Episode 237 – aired 9/10/66, other
guests: The Four Tops
1967 The Match
Game Herself Season 6, Episode 6 - Lesley Gore & Soupy
Sales – aired 10/9/67
1967 Batman Pussycat Recurring role; 2 episodes: Season 2 Episodes 40 – That
Darn Catwoman – aired 1/19/67; Season 2, Episode 41 – Scat! Darn Catwoman –
aired 1/25/67.
1967 Dream Girl of
'67 Herself Recurring role; 5 episodes
1967 Malibu U Herself Season 1, Episode 4 – aired 8/11/67 – Other guests include The
Turtles and Lou Rawls
1967 Binnen en
Buiten Herself
1967–68 The
Joey Bishop Show Herself Recurring guest; 3 episodes: Season 1, Episode
78 – aired 8/2/67; Season 2, Episode 122 – aired 3/8/68; Season 2, Episode 128
– aired 3/18/68.
1968 Happening '68
Herself Rock
music series on the ABC network. It aired Saturday afternoons following
American Bandstand. Happening aired Mon through Fri from 7/15/68-10/25/68.
1968 What's My
Line? Herself Mystery guest; Season 1, Episode 131 – aired
1/31/1968
1969–70 Della
Herself Recurring guest; 2 episodes: Season 1, Episode 14 – aired 6/26/69;
Season 1, Episode 154 – aired 1/13/70.
1970 Playboy After
Dark Herself Recurring guest; 2 episodes - Season 2, Episode
11 – Other guests: Don Adams, Fleetwood Mac, Arte Johnson – aired 1/8/70.[30]
1970 The Tonight
Show Starring Johnny Carson Herself
Season 8, Episode 41 700701 – aired
7/1/70.
1970–71 The
Rolf Harris Show Herself Recurring guest; 2 episodes
1970 The David
Frost Show Herself Recurring guest; 2 episodes - Season 2, Episode
104 – aired January 22, 1970; Season 3, Episode 59 – aired December 17, 1970.
1970 The Dick
Cavett Show Herself Season 5, Episode 55 – aired January 22, 1970.
1971 The Virginia
Graham Show Herself
1975–76 The
Midnight Special Herself Guest host – Season 5, Episode 2 – aired
9/24/76. Guest on 2 episodes: Season 3, Episode 34 – Host: Chubby Checker;
Season 4, Episode 21 – Host: David Brenner, Other guest: Fleetwood Mac
1976 Dinah! Herself Season
2, Episode 167 – aired May 24, 1976
1977 Sha Na Na Herself
1977 $20,000
Pyramid Herself $20,000 Pyramid - Season 6, Episode 6 – Soupy
Sales & 5 female stars – aired 10/10/77
1970 Our Time Herself
1982–83 All
My Children June Gordan A music publicist for 6 episodes;
performed the song "Easy to Say, Hard to Do" which was written for
the show
1998 Murphy Brown Herself Episode:
Season 10 Episode 16: "Opus One"[34] Frank recreates American
Bandstand for Murphy's 50th birthday; guests Dick Clark; Fabian; Lesley Gore;
Chubby Checker; Sally Field.
1998 A Capitol
Fourth Herself Lesley performed in concert for the annual
"A Capitol Fourth" July 4 celebration in Washington. The show was
nationally televised by PBS on the evening of July 4, 1998.
2001 Walk on By:
The Story of Popular Song Herself Episode: "Producer Pop"
2001 Biography Herself Episode: "Lesley Gore: 'It's Her Party'"
2002 Hollywood
Squares Herself Recurring guest; 2 episodes
2005 Party Planner
with David Tutera Herself Episode: "Broadway Legend's Soiree"
2006 In the Life Herself Season 1, Episode 116 on Logo Borders – aired 1/1/06
2007 TV Land
Confidential Herself Episode: "Music"
Unknown Days
of Our Lives Unknown
Unknown Gay
USA Unknown
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