ECR Music Group is releasing the acclaimed final album of legend Lesley Gore as a deluxe edition today, fully restored, remixed, and remastered by the album’s original producer and ECR founder, Blake Morgan. This new deluxe edition of Ever Since features a never-before-released bonus track––Gore’s final studio recording––recorded during the album’s original 2005 sessions. “In the years since Lesley’s death in …
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 …
“You Don’t Own Me” was a great pre-feminist pop nugget from 1964. But it’s ironic now, nearly 50 years later, that we need reminders from a song this old. Then again, Lesley Gore was ahead of her time. – Rich Horton