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Tenafly native Lesley Gore was just a 17-year-old student at the Dwight School for Girls in Englewood (now Dwight-Englewood) when the 1963 pop hit "It's My Party," produced by Quincy Jones, made her an overnight sensation. Sharing her teen-idol roller coaster ride with a new generation of pop connoisseurs, Gore will speak before an audience of students in the William Paterson University Music Management Program.
TELL ME MORE: Long before Lady Gaga and Britney Spears, Gore was the ultimate pop queen flooding the airwaves, appearing on "American Bandstand" and "The Ed Sullivan Show." While "It's My Party" is her most well-known tune, she'd rather be remembered for her later hit "You Don't Own Me." "I think that gave my career a little more gravitas," Gore told The Record in 2008. "It's a song that has grown over 44 years, whether it's a feminist anthem or a humanist anthem. It's stood the test of time." A 2001 Lesley Gore documentary will be screened as part of the program.See the full content of this document
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