Golden Hits

Lesley Gore | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B000001F35
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #130,851 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Jewel case with inserts, CD is like new with very clear sound

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars All the Mercury hits, September 17, 2005

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Laurence Upton (Wilts, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Golden Hits (Audio CD)

Whilst a comprehensive box set exists for Lesley Gore completists, this will probably suffice for the more casual listener if the price is right. Kicking off with the iconic anthem of teen girl angst, It's My Party (And I'll Cry If I Want To), which sounds petulant until you realise it is the end of the world because Johnny has left the party with Judy, and its triumphal and equally unsophisticated sequel, the glorious Judy's Turn To Cry, it contains all of Lesley Gore's 12 Mercury label Top 100 hits from 1963 and 1966 together with three flip sides, two album tracks and one flop. It includes the powerful feminist statement You Don't Own Me, rather ahead of its time in 1963, although she took a backwards step the following year with the resignedly accepting sentiments of That's The Way Boys Are.
Lesley Gore benefited greatly from the production skills of Quincy Jones and Claus Ogerman's arrangements, though What Am I Gonna Do With You, a standout track that wasn't a single, has a typically brilliant Jack Nitzsche arrangement.
As this album first came out on CD in 1987 (expanded from its vinyl original) it suffers slightly from mastering which foreshortens songs by a second or two to mask analogue hiss, although all are taken from original 2,3 and 4 track stereo master tapes (some of which differ slightly from their mono equivalents), and has an ungenerous 43 minutes playing time by today's standards

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Ultimate 60's Female Pop Vocalist., February 9, 2002

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WILLIE A YOUNG II "willow" (Houston, TX.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Golden Hits (Audio CD)

My mother played this album around the house when I was a child and though I have a preference for the original LP, the extras on this deluxe CD are well worth the price of admission. Truth be told, I developed my love of 60's pop from listening to Lesley Gore, thanks Mom! The hits are all here, but album cuts like the insistently hooky "Maybe I Know"(I dare you to play it only once) and the doo-wop flavored "The Look Of Love" are so top-notch, they could have easily been #1 hits as well. There is absolutely no filler to be found here and indeed none in Ms. Gore's entire catalogue. Every song here is catchy as heck, superbly produced (most notably by Quincy Jones on "It's My Party") and sounds as fresh today as it did when this hits package first appeared in 1965. For true classic pop and some of the greatest vocals ever recorded, "Golden Hits..." is a must own. You will NEVER tire of this collection.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No One Like Her, Everyone Likes Her, February 3, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Golden Hits (Audio CD)

The Bear Family box set which included everything Lesley ever did for Mercury, including a lot of alternate takes and versions (including "What Am I Gonna Do"), a whole unreleased album, an unreleased JAZZ album (!) and much else, revealed something we never suspected: This cute-as-a-button teen star was a much more versatile artist than we ever knew and a much, much better singer than all her doubletracked hits revealed. What stands up here, quite surprisingly, is all those '60s hits. They don't sound dated and that's because Quincy Jones was Lesley's musical collaborator on so much of this work. All of her arrangers were talented, imaginative orchestrators and Mercury always gave Lesley topdrawer production. Who'd ever thunk she turns out to be a helluva singer? If you've seen and heard Lesley today she is as great as ever and STILL cute as a button (she never became an overweight drunk, in other words). Lesley is also a great songwriter--try to find her splendid Motown album "Someplace Else Now", "Love Me By Name" on A & M and "The Canvas Can Do Miracles" on Columbia Special Products. Lesley the person is loved by everyone who has ever worked with her or interviewed her. She is sharp as a penny and a truly nice person. She will always be a winner.