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Who sang It s My Party?
Release date: 5/4/1963
Duration: 02:22

Lesley Gore released the song It s My Party. Date of release: 5/4/1963.

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The lyrics are about a woman who is throwing a party, but is upset because her boyfriend has left her for another woman. She sings that if this happened to the person listening, she would understand why she is crying.

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The lyrics are about a woman who is throwing a party but is upset because her boyfriend has left her for another woman.
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Lesley Gore - Short Biography


- Lesley Sue Goldstein was born on May 2, 1946 and was known professionally as Lesley Gore.
At the age of 16, she recorded the pop hit "It's My Party," which reached number one in the United States in 1963.

- She followed it with ten more Billboard Top 40 hits, including "Judy's Turn to Cry" and "You Don't Own Me."

- Gore went on to work as an actress and television personality.

- She wrote songs with her brother Michael Gore for the 1980 film Fame, for which he won an Oscar.

- She hosted several editions of the LGBT-oriented public television show, In the Life, on American television in the 2000s.
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- "It's My Party" is a song by American singer-songwriter Lesley Gore from her debut studio album I'll Cry If I Want To (1963).

- It was released as the first single from the album on April 5, 1963, by Mercury Records.

- The song was written collectively by Herb Wiener, John Gluck Jr. and Wally Gold, while the production was directed by Quincy Jones.

- The song's lyrics describe a teenage girl's discomfort at her birthday party when her boyfriend Johnny disappears, only to return in the company of Judy, another girl, who is "wearing his ring", to indicate that he has replaced the birthday girl as his love interest.

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