Actually, I have no idea where this March 1964 live take of “It’s My Party” is from. I only say Swedish TV because it has high quality black and white television images, soulful sax playing, and an unresponsive audience, three leading indicators of potential Svensk involvement.
Lesley is lovely here, an ingenue in the flower of her American celebrity girlhood, capped (helmeted) with a stiff version of the Laura Petrie hairdo. Who can resist?
I found this while trying to discern the identity of the side players on the Lesley Gore sessions for “It’s My Party.” Quincy Jones has disowned his Lesley hits. Lesley fans take pride in Q’s involvement, but don’t care about side action the way obsessive jazzbo fans of Q do.
Claus Ogerman
According to Tom Fredrickson at LostWaxMethod.com, the unfortunately-named Claus Ogerman arranged the Gore hits: “He was most famous for doing gossamerlike arrangements—in a completely different style from the Gore stuff—for Antonio Carlos Jobim and other bossa nova kings and queens when they started recording in the US for Verve. He also went on to arrange the first Sinatra-Jobim album and later did stuff for Barbra Streisand and George Benson. One of my faves, he may be the only arranger of whose material I ever bought a 4-cd anthology. No Gore stuff there. That was clearly a paycheck for Q and O.”
