Lesley's Music

Listen to Lesley!

These files are in Real Audio format (exept for the video). If you click on "download", the entire file will be downloaded into a temporary file on your hard disk before it starts playing. If you click on "stream", the file will play while it downloads. If you want to save a file to your hard disk, right-click on "download" and select "save link as" or "save target as" from the menu that pops up.

A clip from "I'm Coolin', No Foolin" (written by Lesley and Syd Shaw). stream download
An interview about "It's My Party". stream download
Lesley's 18th birthday party. This is a video in Quicktime format. download
Lesley's 18th birthday party (audio only). stream download

Music Suggestions

For the casual fan, there is the CD, "The Best of Lesley Gore -- Sunshine Lollipops & Rainbows" (Rhino R2 75325). This contains crisp remastered recordings of Lesley's biggest songs. Or, there's "The Golden Hits of Lesley Gore" (Mercury 810 370-2 M-1). It contains her biggest singles. These are available at most recorded music stores.
For the dedicated fan, there is "It's My Party: The Mercury Anthology" (Mercury 532-517-2). This is a 2-CD set of 52 songs, including all of her chart singles and some significant back sides and album tracks. Everything has been re-mastered, so the quality is quite good. It is available at many recorded music stores.
For the die hard fan, there is a deluxe 5-CD boxed set, called "Its My Party!" (Bear BCD 15-742-EI). It contains nearly all of Lesley's Mercury recordings. I have not seen it at any store, but it is available from some of the on-line music stores, such as CD Now.
For rare recordings of Lesley (i.e., recordings done in the 70's and 80's), try some of the used record stores on the web. Search for "vinyl" and "record" to find them. A few of good ones I have found are Promusicfind.com, Record Club of America (search for Gore), Thursday's, Vinyl Vendors and California Albums*. And if you really want to do some searching, here is a list of over 100 record stores to try.

The Care and Preservation of Phonograph Records (on a Budget). How to keep the music alive on your rare Lesley Gore albums.
* California Albums is an auction store. The minimum bid is $15. But I have always bid the minimum, and have always got what I wanted. However, that could change if everybody tries to get the same Lesley Gore albums. Lesley is under "60's Female Singers".

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