It's My Party

This article is about the song originally recorded by Lesley Gore. For other uses, see It's My Party (disambiguation).

"It's My Party"
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
StudioBell Sound (New York City)
Genre
Length2:19
LabelMercury
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Quincy Jones
Lesley Gore singles chronology
"It's My Party"
(1963) 		"Judy's Turn to Cry"
(1963)
Alternative cover
EP cover
Music video
"It's My Party & She's A Fool" on The Ed Sullivan Show on YouTube

"It's My Party" is a song recorded by American singer Lesley Gore on her debut studio album I'll Cry If I Want To (1963). It was released as a single on April 5, 1963, by Mercury Records. The song was written by Herb Wiener, John Gluck Jr., and Wally Gold, and produced by Quincy Jones.

Theme

The song lyrically portrays the discomfort of a teenage girl at her birthday party when her boyfriend Johnny disappears, only to return in the company of Judy, another girl, who is "wearing his ring", to indicate he has replaced the birthday girl as his love interest.[2]

"It's My Party" is in the key of A major.[3] The song's effectiveness is enhanced by several musical touches that producer Quincy Jones incorporated, including Latin-sounding rhythms, double tracked vocals, and effective horn parts.[2] Allmusic critic Jason Ankeny wrote of the song, "'It's My Party' remains one of the most vivid evocations of adolescent heartbreak ever waxed – Quincy Jones produced the record, although you'd swear it was Aaron Spelling instead."[2]

Background

"It's My Party" was credited to John Gluck, Wally Gold and Herb Weiner, staff writers at the Aaron Schroeder Music firm in 1962. The lyrics were actually written by Seymour Gottlieb, a freelance songwriter. He gave the lyrics to Herb Weiner, with whom he partnered in writing songs, to peddle. It was based on actual events relating to Gottlieb's daughter Judy's "sweet sixteen" party, before which she cried over the prospect of her grandparents being invited.[4] The demo for the song was cut by Barbara Jean English, a girl group veteran (the Clickettes, the Fashions), who was then working as a receptionist at the firm. She also worked with Jimmy Radcliffe, serving as the firm's in-house demo singer. Radcliffe produced the demo, and, according to English, "tried to persuade Musicor [the label owned by Aaron Schroeder] to release it as a record, or to take me into a master studio and redo it, but they weren't interested".[5]

The song was also recorded by Helen Shapiro for her Helen in Nashville album in February 1963, with Shapiro's regular producer, Norrie Paramor, and also Al Kasha. Shapiro later recalled: "Right from the first time we heard the song on the rough demo back in London, we thought we were going to sock them between the eyes with that one";[5] however, Shapiro's version was not one of the cuts chosen as an advance single from the album and by the time of the album's release that October the "It's My Party" track was perceived as a cover of Lesley Gore's hit.

Lesley Gore recalls that "It's My Party" was among some two hundred demos producer Quincy Jones brought to review with her in the den of her family home in February 1963. On hearing the song, Gore told Jones: "That's not half bad. I like it. Good melody. Let's put it on the maybe pile." The song proved to be the only demo Gore and Jones found agreeable. With Jones producing and Claus Ogerman handling arranging and conducting duties, Gore recorded "It's My Party" at Bell Sound Studios in Manhattan on March 30, 1963.[5][6]

In March 1963, Phil Spector heard the demo of "It's My Party" while visiting Aaron Schroeder's office. Wally Gold later recalled: "He [Spector] said, 'Great, I love it. I'm gonna do it with the Crystals.' We [the song's writers] were really excited, because that would ensure that the record was #1!"[7] Schroeder apparently only learned of the Lesley Gore recording of "It's My Party" when Quincy Jones invited him to hear the completed track, which Schroeder found formulaic; believing that Spector would be able to cut a much stronger version of the song with the Crystals and not wanting to lose Spector's good will, Schroeder attempted to convince Jones to suppress the track. Schroeder did not mention Spector's version to Jones, but Jones and Spector both happened to attend a concert with Charles Aznavour at Carnegie Hall on the evening of March 30, 1963, and when they met outside it came up in conversation that Spector had recorded a version of "It's My Party" with the Crystals.[note 1] Jones skipped the concert, instead spending that night – a Saturday – at Bell Sound Studios making a test pressing of the track, comprising one hundred copies.

Over the next two days, Jones mailed these out to radio programmers in key markets across the US. Gore heard her record played on the radio for the first time that Friday; the official release of "It's My Party" came later in the month, with the disc ascending to number one nationally in four weeks.[5][7] Jones was abroad at the time of "It's My Party"'s release. On his return, he expressed dismay when Aaron Schroeder advised him that the rush release of "It's My Party" had precluded coining a more pleasant name for the singer than "Lesley Gore", to which Schroeder replied: "Didn't anybody tell you?... Quince, the record's number one. Do you really give a damn what her last name is?"[5] [failed verification]

Reviewing the song, Cash Box said that Gore "has a slick, wide-range voice aptly suited to the tune, a medium-paced, chorus-backed romancer with a potent teen-oriented multi-dance beat."[8]

Gore released a sequel to "It's My Party", which was titled "Judy's Turn to Cry".[2]

In 1980, WCBN-FM, the University of Michigan freeform student radio station, played "It's My Party" for 18 hours straight the day after Ronald Reagan was elected.[9]

In 1999, the song was used as an advertising jingle to promote Burger King's 99-cent meal.[10]

In August 2021, a trend of using a remixed version of the song in videos on video-sharing app TikTok led to a resurgence of interest in the song.[11][12]

Charts

Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin version

"It's My Party"
Single by Dave Stewart with Barbara Gaskin
B-side"Waiting in the Wings"
ReleasedSeptember 1981
Recorded1981
Genre
Length3:47
LabelStiff
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]

References

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  2. ^ a b c d Ankeny, J. "It's My Party". AllMusic. Retrieved July 20, 2011.
  3. ^ McClary, S., Knapp, R., Baur, S. & Warwick, J.C. (2008). Musicological identities: essays in honor of Susan McClary. Ashgate. p. 71. ISBN 978-0-7546-6302-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Tumposky, Ellen (February 18, 2015). "Brooklyn Woman recall origins of Gore's 'It's My Party'". Daily News. New York. Retrieved February 18, 2015.
  5. ^ a b c d e f "It's My Party". Cha Cha Charming Magazine. Archived from the original on June 12, 2007.
  6. ^ a b Bronson, F. (2003). The Billboard book of number 1 hits (5 ed.). Random House. p. 130. ISBN 978-0-8230-7677-2.
  7. ^ a b Shannon, Bob. "Behind The Hits: Stories: It's My Party". Archived from the original on February 6, 2008. Retrieved September 17, 2011.
  8. ^ "CashBox Record Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. April 13, 1963. p. 12. Retrieved January 12, 2022.
  9. ^ "CBN History". WCBN. Archived from the original on July 4, 2022. Retrieved February 16, 2012.
  10. ^ "Burger King 99 Cent Great Tastes Menu 1999 Commercial | It's My Party". YouTube. June 9, 2021.
  11. ^ "The 'It's My Party' TikTok Trend, Explained | Her Campus". www.hercampus.com. August 25, 2021. Retrieved September 2, 2021.
  12. ^ "'Cry if I want to' TikTok trend explained: Classic song remixed for realizations". In The Know. August 25, 2021. Retrieved September 2, 2021.
  13. ^ "Australian Weekly Singles Charts(David Kent) from 1963". Retrieved May 17, 2018.
  14. ^ CHUM Hit Parade, June 17, 1963
  15. ^ Flavour of New Zealand, 4 July 1963
  16. ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  17. ^ a b Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 – ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  18. ^ "Cash Box Top 100 Singles, June 8, 1963". Archived from the original on March 13, 2017. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
  19. ^ Musicoutfitters.com
  20. ^ "Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 28, 1963". Archived from the original on July 13, 2014. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
  21. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
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