| My Town, My Guy & Me | ||||
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| Studio album by Lesley Gore | ||||
| Released | 1965 (1965) | |||
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| Label | Mercury | |||
| Producer | Quincy Jones | |||
| Lesley Gore chronology | ||||
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My Town, My Guy & Me is the fifth studio album by American singer Lesley Gore, released in 1965.
The album was originally titled Lesley Gore Sings for Girls in Love.
Commercial performance
My Town, My Guy & Me was much less successful than its predecessors. Only the album's title track found chart success; 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.
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. 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."
Billboard described the title track as an "exciting rhythm number with clever lyric" and praised the "intriguing backing and powerful vocal." 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."
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.
- "Album Reviews". Billboard. 2 October 1965. p. 68.
- "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.
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