It's My Party

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"It's My Party"
It's My Party single cover.jpg
Original US single cover
Single by Lesley Gore
from the album I'll Cry If I Want To
B-side "Danny"
ReleasedApril 5, 1963
RecordedMarch 30, 1963
Studio Bell Sound (New York City)
Genre
Length2:19
Label Mercury
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Quincy Jones
Lesley Gore singles chronology
"It's My Party"
(1963)		"Judy's Turn to Cry"
(1963)
Alternative cover
Lesley Gore - It's My Party.jpg
EP cover

Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin version

"It's My Party"
StewartGaskinItsMyParty.jpg
Single by Dave Stewart with Barbara Gaskin
B-side "Waiting in the Wings"
ReleasedSeptember 1981
Recorded1981
Genre
Length3:47
Label Stiff
Songwriter(s)
  • Wally Gold
  • John Gluck Jr.
  • Herb Weiner
Producer(s) Dave Stewart
Dave Stewart with Barbara Gaskin singles chronology
"It's My Party"
(1981)		"Johnny Rocco"
(1982)
Music video
"It's My Party" (TopPop, 1981) on YouTube

In 1981, a remake by British artists Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin was a UK number-one hit single for four weeks, becoming the first version of the song to reach number one in the UK. [6] The record also reached number one in Ireland and New Zealand and reached the top 10 in Australia, Austria, Germany, South Africa, and Switzerland. The music video for the Stewart/Gaskin version contained a cameo by Thomas Dolby as Johnny, Judy being played by Gaskin in a blond wig.

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1981–1982)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [21] 4
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) [22] 3
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) [23] 17
Canada Top Singles ( RPM ) [24] 13
Ireland (IRMA) [25] 1
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40) [26] 20
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [27] 26
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) [28] 1
South Africa (Springbok Radio) [29] 3
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) [30] 6
UK Singles (OCC) [31] 1
US Billboard Hot 100 [32] 72
West Germany (GfK) [33] 3

Year-end charts

Chart (1981)Position
UK Singles (OCC) [34] 12
Chart (1982)Position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [35] 46
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) [36] 47
West Germany (Official German Charts) [37] 29

Other versions

Notes

  1. ↑ As with "He's a Rebel", the Crystals' hit for which it was intended as the follow-up, "It's My Party" was actually recorded not by the Crystals but the Blossoms, who cut the track at Gold Star Studios. Darlene Love says the Spector version was "kinda slow with me and my sister Edna [Wright] singing together on lead. Much more R&B than Lesley Gore's version." [5]

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