As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Lesley Gore


Lesley Gore died yesterday at the relatively young age of 68. Of course, she also got her musical start young, hitting #1 at the tender age of 17 with “It’s My Party”. While she was best known for that song, the follow-up “Judy’s Turn To Cry”, and the feminist-before-its-time “You Don’t Own Me”, my personal favorite was always “Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows” (which I learned just today was featured prominently in the hit animated movie Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs).

Was able to see her 8 years ago at BlackRock in Germantown, so I’ll have to add her to the list of performers I was fortunate enough to catch while they were still with us.

 

 

 

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