Lesley Affair
My pal Patrick recently added to his LiveJournal a neato bootleg compilation from 2001 called Love Her By Name: A Lesley Gore Tribute. Most of the selections are contemporary to Miss Gore’s ’60s heyday, although there are a few stunning newer numbers such as Rasputina’s coffeehouse-feminist take on “You Don’t Own Me”. I loves me some Lesley, whether they’re cover versions or not!
On a similar tip, I just finished my own mix of underrated Giorgio Moroder productions — Play Me Moroder 79-84 (no download unfortunately). Ironically the hardest song to track down was Irene Cara’s “Why Me?”, a top 20 hit from 1983.
