My Town, My Guy & Me
My Town, My Guy & Me is the fifth studio album by American singer Lesley Gore, released in 1965.
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| Released | 1965 | |||
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| Label | Mercury | |||
| Producer | Quincy Jones | |||
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The album was originally titled Lesley Gore Sings for Girls in Love.[1]
Commercial performance
My Town, My Guy & Me was much less successful than its predecessors. Only the album's title track found chart success;[2] the single peaked at 32 on the Billboard Hot 100, after five weeks on the chart, and dropped out of the top forty after eight weeks.[3]
Critical reception
Billboard Magazine rated the album a "package of strong pop material", with Gore's vocals on "No Matter What You Do" highlighted as "a standout" performance.[4] Retrospectively, AllMusic awarded the album three stars, calling it Gore's "last fairly-strong non-greatest-hits LP, and the last to feature a reasonable standard of material." However, like her previous albums, it features "a number of goodies for fans inclined to dig beyond the 45s of this very singles-oriented artist."[2]
Billboard described the title track as an "exciting rhythm number with clever lyric" and praised the "intriguing backing and powerful vocal."[5] Cash Box described it as a "rhythmic romantic rocker about a gal who just wants to be in the same town as the guy of her dreams."[6]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "My Town, My Guy & Me" | Bob Elgin, Lesley Gore, Paul Kaufman | |
| 2. | "What's a Girl Supposed to Do" | Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich | |
| 3. | "What Am I Gonna Do With You (Hey Baby)" | Gerry Goffin, Russ Titelman | |
| 4. | "You Didn't Look 'Round" | Glen Stuart, Nola York | |
| 5. | "I Don't Care" | John Medora, David White | |
| 6. | "No Matter What You Do" | Mike Post, Dick St. John |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 7. | "The Things We Did Last Summer" | Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne | |
| 8. | "A Girl in Love" | Lesley Gore | |
| 9. | "Baby That's Me" | Jackie DeShannon, Jack Nitzsche | |
| 10. | "Just Another Fool" | Dennis Lambert, Louis Pegues | |
| 11. | "Let Me Dream" | Teddy Randazzo, Lou Stallman, Bobby Weinstein | |
| 12. | "Before and After" | Van McCoy |
References
- Bleile, Penny. "Lesley Gore Tries Separating College Books, Musical Notes." Valley News (Van Nuys, CA), 1 October 1965. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
- Unterberger, Richie. "Album review". AllMusic. RhythmOne. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
- "Lesley Gore chart history". Billboard.com. Nielsen Business Media. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
- Inc, Nielsen Business Media (2 October 1965). "Billboard". Nielsen Business Media, Inc.
{{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires|magazine=(help);|last1=has generic name (help) - "Spotlight Singles" (PDF). Billboard. August 28, 1965. p. 18. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
- "CashBox Record Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. August 28, 1965. p. 12. Retrieved 2022-01-12.