She was only 17 when she recorded this song. Lesley gore was a wonderful woman and proud Lesbian who spent her life trying to help others. Her and her girlfriend of over 30 years were great activists. She passed away in 2015. ❤

It's my Party and You don't own Mr both came out in 1963 so Lesley Gore was 17 on both songs. I love her voice she has such a sweet voice. Sadly we lost Lesley Gore in 2015 at the tender age of 69.

Electric echo effects were used in the music industry since the 1950s, but there was no autotune back then. Staying in tune was done by practice and talent.

Autotune wasn't invented until 1996.

@thomastimlin1724

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And a sad day for music that was...

@cariwaldick4898

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Autotune wasn't invented yet, but they're going back and running old music through autotune, and rereleasing it--it's an abomination. I don't think that's what this is, but it's worth knowing they're ruining good music this way.

@johnbattles1002

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@@thomastimlin1724 , so sadly true! Abominable!

@johnbattles1002

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@@cariwaldick4898 , it makes me sick!

@toodlescae

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@@paultaylor9498 it depended on the show. Some were live. Some weren't.

No autotune. The effect on her voice was achieved by having the artist re-record the track and laid out with the original as a second singer thus giving the final sound like two people singing. The Beatles were fond of this effect and used it quite extensively. It tends to give the sound more depth.

@JimmyLee27

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Actually it's tcalled automatic doubletracking (ADT), which means she sang it only once, but the machine recorded it twice with a short delay between both tracks, wich creates a fuller sound. Lennon especially was taken by this technique because it reminded him of Elvis' "Heartbreak Hotel" and the early SUN records, which had a lot of echo on them.

@veridicusmaximus6010

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@@JimmyLee27 I'm curious where you find tidbit s like this regarding music history! Is there a particular book about musical techniques and history you reference?

@netzahuacoyotl

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Automatic double tracking was not invented until 1966. It was invented for John Lennon because he hated singing a track twice.

@boosuedon

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@@netzahuacoyotl I really wasn't going to dive in here because I don't know when ADT was invented. That said, as a 73 year old dude that listened to ALL of this music first hand I vividly recall some songs that the Beatles did where it was so obvious that the singer sang it twice because they did not completely match up! Thank you! Hell, now I have to go through their catalogue to find the damn examples! CURSE YOU AUSTIN SCHELL!

@netzahuacoyotl

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@@boosuedon They used double tracking extensively in the early years, but it wasn’t automated. They had to sing the vocal part twice. It’s a great sound because each performance is a little different. John hated having to sing the part again so Geoff Emerick came up with ADT, which takes the vocal track and mixes it with a slightly delayed copy of the same vocal track. Also cool, but I think just layering individual vocal performances sounds richer.

Lesley Gore, was an American singer, songwriter & actress. At the age of 16, she recorded this pop hit "It's My Party" in 1963. She followed it up with many more hits including "Judy's Turn to Cry" ,"You Don't Own Me", "That's the Way Boys Are", "Maybe I Know", "Look of Love" & "Sunshine, Lollipops & Rainbows". Sadly she died in 2015.

She was very beautiful talented singer xxxxxx pops may she R I P

She is the first true woman with a take no crap attitude

Leslie isn't auto-tuned. Her producer simply had her double her lead vocal, or sing the lead twice on separate tracks, with a slightly different EQ and reverb on the two lead vocal takes.

@gregorybrown3272

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I'm not sure if it was on this song, or one of her others, but there was one time when they had to do a sneaky end run around the Musicians Union, there was a rule in New York that you could not double track the lead vocal, the Union required you to hire a second singer, the producer did not want anybody else's vocal on this track, so he snuck Leslie into the studio in the dark of night to lay down the second lead vocal track.

@lernwar

3 ай бұрын

The maestro Quincy Jones

Her record producer was the genius, Quincy Jones.

I gave this 45 to my now husband when we were teens back then. I thought that maybe he wouldn't like or appreciate it but on the contrary he loved it! When I asked what I thought about what she was actually saying he looked at me and said, "you know my mother and grandmother, I've grown up with two tough, speak their own minds women!" That's why today's feminism kind of makes him chuckle! Like he says, now it just means you can scream louder and longer then any man but real toughness comes from within.

Was no auto-tune when this was recorded. The "effect" you're hearing is Lesley singing in unison with herself. So, it's a doubled vocal. Overdubbing is a wonderful thing...

I remember when this song came out. Really empowering to us teen girls because back then if you went on a date with someone you were his until he decided you weren’t anymore. Dating different guys was frowned upon 😎❤️☮️👵🏼

She was just so cool! Love this song, and the attitude. Another great reaction. I like your commentary and your energy; nice job! "I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar" (Helen Reddy, early 1970s, a bit later than Gore's 1960s hit) but definitely another powerful anthem for the women's movement. I also recommend a beautiful rendition of "Cry Me A River" if you're interested in more Lesley Gore. An interesting trivia bit about Lesley Gore and her brother; they composed a bunch of the songs in the movie "Fame". Very talented duo. All the best.

@michaelinthebathroom7560

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Y E S. Not enough people talk about Helen Reddy! My mom, a self-proclaimed metalhead raised me on that song.

No autotune. Multi-track of her vocals along with a good amount of reverb and echo.

Hey! First one here! lol I remember my mom listening this song....used to hear it a lot as a kid! She sounds like she did on the studio version...so not sure if its auto tuned or not. She had a rough few years career wise. She signed to a few different record labels but nothing hit. So, she started composing instead and won an Academy Award for Best Original Song that was in the movie "Fame"! Leslie Gore was 17 years old when both songs came out in 1963! "It's My Party" was her debut single. Then she did "You Dont Own Me" that came out after that. RIP Leslie Gore! 🙏

This song was an anthem for the empowerment of women used effectively in the film ‘The First Wives Club’ with Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler and Diane Keaton!

This sort of sound was achieved by layering vocals over one another in the studio to create a slighty different sound but Leslie had a very powerful voice. The 60's and 70's were a time when artists and bands were experimenting with sounds they could make in the studio with voices and instruments. But if you didn't have a great voice to start with you just didn't cut it. Phil Specter created his 'wall of sound' in the sixties and in th eseventies ABBA experimented with multi track layering.

Lesley Gore was so ahead of her time she was 17 at the time this came out in 1963 a few months after her first hit It's my party. Here she's standing up to a man trying to make her his property as it was at that time. Of course Lesley never had a husband she was a lesbian though she did find the love of her life Lois Sasson in 1982 and stayed with her for 33 years until Lesley's death from lung cancer in 2015 at the age of 68. They were planing there wedding for summer 2015 sadly Lesley got sick and passed on February 16 2015. Lois passed in 2020.

Nice reaction! Beautifully commented! She coud sang!!! I love her voice!

There's an amazing scene in the movie, First Wives Club, where they use this song... it's about three women whose husbands screwed them over for younger women getting sweet, sweet revenge on all of them, and this song is part of their empowerment! Fantastic cast - Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, Bette Midler... a must-watch.

@Haziesmom2023

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YES!!!!!!!!! 😁☺💗❤

@wallacecallow2255

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We live in a prudish world. If people had open relationships, jealousy would be reduced to almost zero- meaning no more homicides, etc., over petty control issues.

This is from early 1964...no autotune then...people had talent....didn't need it...she double tracked her voice to give it that echo effect!

No lousy Autotune it started in 1997. I regard her as a great singer since im listening carefully and with headphones. I heard all her songs back in thd day. This great song was recorded in thd mid 60s close to Its my Party and Judy

This song was such a rebellion against the status quo back then. Women were considered weak, in need of protection, woman's place is in the home and kitchen, "Stand By Your Man" as Tammy Wynette had a huge hit with. Along comes Leslie Gore and says very defiantly, I am not your play thing, I am true to myself! I am 72 and fondly remember this song hitting the AM radio.

They didn’t have music videos back then. Love this song and I Will Survive.

It's double tracked and they used a different type of mic back then.

Britt. The 2nd half was Judy's turn to cry. This effect was done by Leslie recording the track twice and basically singing harmony with herself. Many TV shows back in the day (not quite so much with country music) used to have the performers lip synch on TV broadcasts. That is the reason you hear the endings fade out. That is how records all ended back in the day.

This song was in the movie First Wives Club. Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, and Diane Keaton.

There are some live performances from TV shows in the mid-60s her singing this song and its raw and she sounds good no matter what no auto-tune. And there's many live versions of her singing this even 20 years ago when she was quite a bit older but her voice was still great and raw you should look it up and you could do what a lot of these other reactors don't do and double up on the same song but different versions live ones and from different shows.

This was used in the movie "First Wives Club".

OK YOUNG LADY, HERE IT IS ! ----------ON NEW YEARS EVE OF '63 / 54, IN DENVER ON AM 950, KIMN, THIS SONG WAS ALREADY IN THE TOP 10. BY END OF JANUARY, IT WAS # 2 ON BILLBOARD'S TOP 50. SADLY, THE BRITISH INVASION THAT BEGAN ON 2/7/64, ENDED THIS SONG'S REIGN ON AM TOP 40 RADIO./ LESLEY GORE --------BORN GOLDSTEIN IN N.J., --------WAS ALL OF 18 Y/O WHEN SHE RECORDED THIS SONG UNDER THE DIRECTION OF PRODUCER, QUINCY JONES. ----------THE SONG ITSELF, WAS WRITTEN BY 2 STAFF SONG WRITERS AT MERCURY RECORDS : A MAN & A WOMAN, NEITHER EVER HAVING ANY IDEA THE SONG WOULD BECOME AN ANTHEM FOR FEMALE EMPOWERMENT. ----------LESLEY DIED IN --------I BELIEVE-------2013. ------MJL, 77 Y/O

she was 17 years old when she recorded "you don't own me."

No auto tune, it wasn’t invented til much later

The music I grew up with on 45's.

There was NO Auto tune in those days she did a double track of the vocals and added reverb.

The 60s started ALL of the movements!!!

You should react to "Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows" or ""Misty", both songs are hers and underrated!

Oh, this brings me back!!! Thanks for bringing Back these memories!!! You should check out ... HARDY... mockingbird and the CROW!!

Back then they ran several tracks on top of each other. To add that multiple voices

Judy's Turn To Cry is the name of the sequel to It's My Party

I was named Lesley due to my Dad's fascination with Lesley Gore.

It's my Party was released in 1963. The same year as this video.

I believe it was called vocal "layering" or "stacking," Had been done as early as the 1950s.

Written by John Madara and Danny White who were more associated with fluffy pop songs e.g. "At The Hop", "Pop Pop Pop-Pie", "1-2-3" et al. Apart from her run-ins with Judy and this track, Lesley also had a top 20 record with "Maybe I Know". All produced by Quincy Jones.

She was 16 when she sang this.

The voice has reverb on it and a little echo as well.

This wasn't a music video; those didn't exist yet. This performance would've been part of some TV music show.

Girl power love it

It was all her-no alterations!

There was no such thing as auto-tune (or even the word) in 1963 -- thank God!!! This was the result of a relatively new technique which, I believe, was referred to as multi-tracking, or over-dubbing, something like that, where the artist does two or more recordings and blends them together to where, in essence, she is singing "with herself." Karen Carpenter was extraordinarily successful and beautiful with this technique!

@albertsilver195

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Patti Page did multi tracking in the 1950's

Lesley's songs do not have any unifying theme. It's My Party was released to radio in the Spring of 1963. You Don't Own Me was released in December 1963. Between "It's My Party" and "You Don't Own Me" there was "Judy's Turn To Cry" and "She's A Fool" both top five national hits, meaning they sold a lot of records. Immediately after "You Don't Own Me" her records company released "That's The Way Boys Are" in which Lesley's character has given up on changing her boyfriend's behavior. Right after that, Lesley had in release "I Don't Want to Be A Loser" in which she laments that having a broken heart is akin to being a loser in love. Lesley continued to release hits for several years but as she matured and starting to turning out more mature message songs, her audience sort of disappeared and so did she.

Britt, you should react to Brenda Lee (Little Miss Dynamite) songs I'm Sorry, All Alone Am I, Break It To Me Gently, I Want To Be Wanted and so many more. And react to Connie Francis songs Who's Sorry Now, Lipstick on Your Collar, Where the Boys Are, Among My Souvenirs and so many more. Francis' song Mama will tear your heart out (even though most of it is in Italian).

She had all of her hits by age 18, before going off to college. By the time she returned to her career the Beatles and Motown had taken over, and her career never recovered. Similarly, Mary Weiss of the Shangri-La's had about 10 hits by age 17, when she quit the business and did not record another album for 40 years. Teenage girl singers with very short careers were not uncommon back then.

@josephdonato8154

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Not quite. YOU DON'T OWN ME was stuck at #2 sandwiched in between 2 Beatles tunes

This song is played in the movie First Wives Club. Starring Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn and Diane Keaton. Great Movie and hilarious except one thing

Leslie Gore when from fragile damsel to "OH NO YOU DON'T" Diva....LOVE IT

In 1963 when she recorded this, Lesli Gore was 17 years old. Back then teenage girls didn't think such things much less say them out loud. I don't know if this song started the feminist movement, but it should have.

Check her live performance of that song at the TAMI :)

THIS SONG SURE DID LIBERATE ALOT OF YOUNG WOMAN AND LOVED IT THEN AND DOWN THE ROAD MADE SURE MY DAUGHTER WOULD HEAR THIS , BUT IN DESCREAT WAY SHE WAS HEARING THE MESSAGE. LOVE IT. TO ALL AGRESIVE RELATIONSHIP. 🤗

It was a anthem for the women's movement in the late sixties.

the effect on her voice sounds to me like she overdubbed her singing part and they mixed both into the track to give it that full sound and what amounts to a heavy reverb with a little delay in the mix.

I doubt there was autotune back then, they may have had ADT automatic duel tracking, she was 17 when she sang it's my party, my favourite song of Hers was Immortality.

They used reverb on her vocals. I used to be an audio engineer at a recording in Brooklyn, New York

@erickent3557

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Hmm, yeah, certainly lots of reverb, and it sounds like it doesn't kick in right away. Almost like a doubling echo in there.

@johnlennon1049

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@@erickent3557 added a little delay also…

You Don't own Me came out December 1963 on her 2nd album and hit #2 on the charts keep from #1 because The Beatles hit America with I want to hold your hand. This performance was probably later in her career. This was a lipsnyc performance from the studio record. Miss Lesley Gore who passed in 2015.

This is about 30+ yrs prior to Auto-Tune (1996).

It's Funny you said "You don't put Baby in the Corner"... This Song made a Resurgence in "Dirty Dancing", covered by The Blow Monkey's.

My cousin, on my father's side. Should have talked to her more.

Love the lyrics to this song. It is great advice for young women.

Yes it was doubled & reverb heavily

I think that affect was done by her recorded another track and they were combined to sound like two singers.

During the '60s the country was going through great social change.

this is the best she's one of my favorite singers

Back in those days it was a common technique to have the singer sing along with their recorded track. It gave a full unique sound.

I don't believe autotune was available yet. But they did have an echo or even a gravelly sound with a little button on the floor near the mic stand.

Try these...“Dedicated To The One I Love” - The Mamas and Papas, or "Treat Her Right" by Roy Head and The Traits...

Not auto tuned. Additional female singers singing with her. So will layer their voice tracks one on top of the other. The Carpenters did it by going back into the studio and singing several background harmonies rather than hiring singers

Another great reaction.

This was my moms musical influence on my musical taste. Mom loved rock music like The Eagles etc like my dad, but she loved country music like Kenny Rogers and old do wop stuff like this.

Definitely not Autotuned which was first developed in 1997 and this song debuted in 1963. That's all Leslie, but it sounds like they layered her voice to get that effect.

This song was used in the movie FIRST WIVES CLUB. starring Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaten, and Bette Midler. It was the story of three “first wives” whose husbands had cheated on them with younger women. And how they banded together for revenge. These three women sang the song and it was a fabulous rendition. There is a video on Utube

She was 16 on the 1st. record. 17 on this one.

She is singing with reverb with delayed setting.

She was 17 at the time. If you listen to just the recording it lasts longer. She was talking about the jerks who would date them and thought they own and disrespected them on a date. Pretty powerful singing from such a little girl. LOL!😎

Remember that songs in those days had to be less than about 3 minutes (IIRC) long because that is all that would fit on a 45rpm vinyl disk. The versions on LP albums (long play--that is 33 1/3 rpm ) were sometimes longer.

no auto tune that's her voice

we one didn't talk this way back then

That song was planted in my brain and took root when I was 10years old. Iam moved by the song still today. Love the song!My husband curses the song 🤭Lol

She was 17 in 1963. You Don't Own Me was a year later.

I was born in 98 and to me this was the awakening song of female independence. My mum used to play this song a lot after she left her ex husband 🤣👑

Please consider reacting to Melanie joined by The Edwin Hawking Singers - Lay Down/Candles In The Rain.

Thanks, Britt - NO "autotune".. they always had some echo effects... Leslie had an awesome voice... this was an early "feminist" song.... thanks for listening.. (P.S. story is that Leslie was a lesbian.. but forced to hide that aspect of her truth...)

After her singing career Lesley became a doctor.

@colleenbeilby824

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No she remained in the music business writing songs and performing. Her last album was released in 2005

@Pauba1946

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@@colleenbeilby824 sorry I was thinking of Someone else.👍

This is in 1963. This is like 40 years before autotuning.

auto tune came about 20 years after this song was recorded- Plate reverb is the effect on her voice. I work with Leslie later in her career and that is her voice.

LOL no autotune, just singing through an amp with a bit of reverb. voices work just like guitars.

Yeah, a super cool cut! Looked it up, and she was 17!! WOW. Didn't know Quincy Jones produced it either... Autotune didn't come for a few decades yet, but yeah now that you mention it: interesting production choices on her vocals. They don't strike me as double-tracked, but maybe a "delay" put on, with lotsa reverb thrown around. Hmm, listening again: at the end there are things going on that maybe she does have a double-tracked vocal.

A common practice in those years was echo chamber. It gave the voice a reverberating quality. You might like her first hit song: Sunshine, Lollipos and Rainbows. kzread.info/dash/bejne/k6iNmdumiKTJgrQ.html

Lesley Gore is one of the first artists to be signed to the Motown label out of Detroit Michigan.

@arthurvandelay3367

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Not even close. Lesley's 1960s hits were recorded for Mercury Records. Her first post-Mercury Lp was released by Motown in 1972- about 13 years after the Berry Gordy started the label with Marv Johnson's "Come To Me".

I LOVE this song. This was before I was born. It and Billy Joels Its My Life became my anthems to leave my abusive ex-husband !

I also love Dusty Springfield version

There was no computers for auto-tune. They has big echo rooms and chambers. Also spring reverb and tremolo. You can look up the recording effects of the 50s 60s and 70s.