For the longest time the only CD available covering her hits was the Mercury release The Golden Hits Of Lesley Gore. It's nice to see more and more coming onto the market for this highly-underrated singer, and this one from Rhino is easily one of the best.
From tracks 1 to 14, and 17 and 18 it repeats the contents of the above-mentioned CD, but then adds four that were not easily obtainable before in a quality CD. These are: I Won't Love You Anymore (Sorry) which reached # 80 in 1965; Start The Party Again from her 1966 LP Lesley Gore Sings All About Love; Summer And Sandy, a # 65 in the summer of 1967; and Brink Of Disaster, her last pop Hot 100 which hit # 82 in the fall of 1967.
Lesley would also have two Adult Contemporary-only hits, the first coming in 1969 when a medley of 98.6 and Lazy Day reached # 36, and the other in 1970 when Why Doesn't Love Make Me Happy topped out at # 39 - her last hit single. The former is currently available only in an expensive box set, while the latter does not appear to be included in any of the CDs currently available.
During her career three of her hits also crossed over to the R&B charts, a good illustration of her widespread appeal [It's My Party, Judy's Turn To Cry, and She's A Fool - nos. 1, 10, and 28 respectively], and she was backed by some of the biggest names in orchestras at that time, among them Claus Ogerman, Don Costa, Alan Lorber, Jack Nitzsche, and Hutch Davie. All this is detailed in the insert where you also get a discography of the contents, and seven pages of background notes by Richard Henderson to go along with several more nice shots of Lesley.
As James Austin of Rhino A&R says in an opening statement "would you believe that the same person who celebrated '60s teen angst with It's My Party and Judy's Turn To Cry was a fan of such jazz singers as Chris Connor and June Christy? Well, it's true." That comes across clearly in several tracks, but especially 14. Recommended.
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