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The song lyrically portrays the discomfiture of a teenage girl at her birthday party when her boyfriend Johnny disappears, only to surface in the company of Judy, another girl, who is "wearing his ring," to indicate she's replaced the birthday girl as his love interest. The song's chorus, "It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to You would cry too if it happened to you! The lyrics were actually written by Seymour Gottlieb, a freelance songwriter.
He gave the lyrics to Herb Weiner, with whom he partnered in writing songs, to peddle. She also worked with Jimmy Radcliffe , serving as the firm's in-house demo singer. Radcliffe produced the demo, and, according to English, "tried to persuade Musicor [the label owned by Aaron Schroeder] to release it as a record, or to take me into a master studio and redo it, but they weren't interested.
Lesley Gore recalls that "It's My Party" was among some two hundred demos producer Quincy Jones brought to review with her in the den of her family home in February Let's put it on the maybe pile. Wally Gold would recall: Schroeder did not mention Spector's version to Jones but Jones and Spector both happened to attend a concert with Charles Aznavour at Carnegie Hall on the evening of March 30, and when they met outside it came up in conversation that Spector had recorded a version of "It's My Party" with the Crystals. Over the next two days Jones mailed these out to radio programmers in key markets across the US.
Gore heard her record played on the radio for the first time that Friday; the official release of "It's My Party" came later in the month, with the disc ascending to number one nationally in four weeks. On his return he expressed dismay when Aaron Schroeder advised him that the rush release of "It's My Party" had precluded coining a more pleasant name for the singer than "Lesley Gore," to which Schroeder replied: Quince, the record's number one.
Do you really give a damn what her last name is?
In , a remake by British artists Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin was a UK number-one hit single for four weeks, becoming the first version of the song to reach number one in the UK. Because of the pop cultural obsession with the song and its tragic nature, Gore recorded a sequel titled " Judy's Turn to Cry ".
In this song, the teenage girl narrator gets her revenge on Judy. In the lyrics the narrator explicitly finds "foolish" how much she cried when she saw Johnny and Judy together, and seems determined to start anew.
But after she kisses another boy at another party, Johnny gets jealous, punches the other boy and returns to her. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Pop rock blue-eyed soul. Walter Gold John Gluck Jr. Herb Weiner Seymour Gottlieb. Wally Gold John Gluck Jr. Matthew's tragic death back in soon has changed the whole world forever. One year after their breakup, Nick is confronted with a ravaged immune system and a CT Scan and lab values which, along with his worsening forgetfulness, clenches the diagnosis of Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy PML -- a condition he has seen claim his friends and one which he vows will not take him.
Due to the aggressive nature of the disease, he has only a few days of conscious life remaining.
His plan, he announces to family and "extended family," is to voluntarily end his life himself before the disease renders him unrecognizable to those he loves and he, in turn, is unable to recognize them. Uninvited to the farewell party, Brandon's presence is greeted with jeers from those who see him as having abandoned Nick Dealing with everything from relationships to parents to unfortunately, death, this movie is the best written, directed and casted movies i have seen in a very long time.
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