Raven is one of the best of the reissue labels so I wanted to try their new Lesley Gore Ultimate Collection and with 32 tracks, pick up a few extra songs. i already had the excellent 20-song "Best of" CD with the blue cover by Rhino which has all the hits. Either one would please any Leslie Gore fan though the Rhino disc is now out of print and thus sometimes goes for high prices.

Leslie appeared in 1963, part of that year's burgeoning "Girl Group sound" if you are willing to expand that definition a bit to go beyond the R&B groups to be a more inclusive "Girl Sound" that included lesley, Robin Ward, Marcie Blane, Shirley Ellis, Timi Yuro and Joanie Sommers. But unlike them, Lesley was very assertive, not just wanting to be Bobby's Girl but crying defiantly at her own birthday party, then providing her own answer song with the in-your-face celebratory Judy's Turn To Cry. In early 1964 as the full tidal wave of Beatlemania and the British Invasion hit, she'd be #2 for three weeks with the amazingly independent You Don't Own Me (which was only #2 because of The Beatles' I Want to Hold Your Hand).

The British Invasion was a once in a lifetime force that almost completely washed away the old music scene overnight. Virtually everyone who had been big before 1964 was gone completely. Only a handfull, mostly of the newer stars, survived, ones like Lesley, Gene Pitney, The Four Seasons, Jan & Dean and The Beach Boys. But except for The Beach Boys, each of the others managed to have one final big hit or two in 1964 and then continue in a diminished way with songs that made the top twenty but rarely if ever the top ten. This was the pattern that Lesley followed until her final hit, 1967's California Nights which peaked at #16. It seems it was just time for a change. It's not like the charts were overwhelmed by British artists: from early '64 to early '66 there were only twelve to fifteen British artists who made the upper end of the charts, and some of them, like Cilla Black, turned out to be one hit wonders in the States. It seemed to just be a change in the air; in 1964 there was still a Girl Group sound, but all of the girl groups were different (The Girlfriends, Dixie Cups, Shangri-Las, etc.).

But it didn't matter if you were a fan of Lesley, and though her songs weren't top of the chart hits, they often got close to the top ten, receiving lots of airplay and were marked by being uniformly good. In fact, Lesley Gore's songs were always quite creative and after the first two, never sounded like each other. Mostly written by good New York pop composers including Brill Building people like Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, Carol sager, Marvin Hamlisch, Mark Barkan and Bob Crewe. They all had top notch arrangements and sound great on the disc. They ran a gamut of moods from the minor key moodiness of You Don't Own Me to the uninhibited celebration of Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows. California Nights is a standout with its double-tracked vocal, waves, oboe and chorus. This is just one of several really good Lesley Gore collections, so take your pick, but I can guarantee that in terms of sound and booklet, plus its 32 tracks, this is one of the best.

PLEASE NOTE: Lesley recorded Sunshine, Lollipops & Rainbows early on, in 1963, as it was written by her rehearsal pianist, Marvin Hamlisch. Then, in 1965, it was re-recorded with a new arrangement for use in the Ski-Party film, in which Lesley appeared singing the song on a bus. For some reason Raven used the early version here rather than the single, which would be more typical. This is an odd choice because most fans will want the single version. Since Raven decided to do this, they should have included the 1965 single version as a bonus track but didn't. This doesn't ruin the disc but is a bit of an oversight.

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I googled her and bought the cd by Amazon and "I LOVE IT"!

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I didn't know of her existence until I saw an advertising on tv of the song "you don't own me"! I googled her and bought the cd by Amazon and "I LOVE IT"!! Beautiful voice!

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Warum mein Vorrezensent nur vier Punkte für diese CD vergibt, wo er doch nur Lob findet, ist mir ein Rätsel. Diese Zusammenstellung ist, wie üblich bei dem australischen Spezialistenlabel Raven, absolute Spitzenklasse. Die Tonqualität ist hervorragend, die Auswahl der Songs auch, sogar ein paar deutsche Versionen tauchen auf. Hinzu kommt ein informatives Booklet. Lesley Gore war und ist mehr als eine durchschnittliche Popsängerin - hier kann sie es unter Beweis stellen.

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When I sold my house and moved to an apt got rid of my record player and albums. Love to have most of my albums combined on the CD!

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