| My Town, My Guy & Me | ||||
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| Released | 1965 | |||
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| Label | Mercury | |||
| Producer | Quincy Jones | |||
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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. [1]
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]
Billboard Magazine rated the album a "package of strong pop material", with a 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]
| No. | Title | Writer(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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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