My Town, My Guy & Me

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My Town, My Guy & Me
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Studio album by
Lesley Gore
Released1965 (1965)
Studio A & R , New York City
Genre
Length30:55
Label Mercury
Producer Quincy Jones
Lesley Gore chronology
Girl Talk
(1964)		My Town, My Guy & Me
(1965)		 Lesley Gore Sings All About Love
(1966)
Singles from My Town, My Guy & Me
  1. "My Town, My Guy & Me"/"A Girl In Love"
    Released: 19 August 1965

My Town, My Guy & Me is the fifth studio album by American singer Lesley Gore, released in 1965.

Contents

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

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
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" 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  
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
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

  1. ↑ Bleile, Penny. "Lesley Gore Tries Separating College Books, Musical Notes." Valley News (Van Nuys, CA), 1 October 1965. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  2. 1 2 Unterberger, Richie. "Album review". AllMusic. RhythmOne. Retrieved July 15, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Lesley Gore chart history". Billboard.com. Nielsen Business Media. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Album Reviews". Billboard. October 2, 1965. p. 68.
  5. ↑ "Spotlight Singles" (PDF). Billboard. August 28, 1965. p. 18. Retrieved March 11, 2021.
  6. ↑ "CashBox Record Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. August 28, 1965. p. 12. Retrieved January 12, 2022.
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