[2015-08-14] Lesley Gore "Someplace Else Now" remaster (Real Gone)

Linda · **Posted:** Wed Jun 10, 2015 2:02 am

Description
It’s hard to overestimate the role Lesley Gore played in charting the course of popular music. Not only was she probably the biggest female teen idol of her era—with four Top Five hits before she was of legal age—but she broke out of the “girl singer” mold with “You Don’t Own Me,” the proto-feminist #2 hit that inspired generations of female singers to come, and served notice that she was much more than just a pretty face with a pretty voice (indeed; Gore ultimately became a pioneering LGBT performer).

However, despite Lesley’s lofty place in the pop music pantheon, there remain some pretty major gaps in the reissue of her repertoire on CD, notably the lone album she cut for Berry Gordy’s Motown subsidiary MoWest, Someplace Else Now. Produced by Joe Porter, this 1972 release marked Lesley’s move into a singer-songwriter mode. Gore wrote or co-wrote (with Ellen Weston or her brother Michael, with whom Lesley would later gain renewed acclaim for collaborating on the score to the hit film Fame) every song on the album. Though it failed to make a significant commercial impact at the time, Someplace Else Now has come to be regarded as a lost, blue-eyed soul gem, and it makes its worldwide CD debut on this Real Gone reissue, complete with liner notes by Joe Marchese and remastering by Mike Milchner at SonicVision. With Lesley’s recent passing, a most timely release and one long requested by her legion of fans.

Tracklist
1. For Me
2. The Road I Walk
3. Out of Love
4. She Said That
5. Don’t Wanna Be the One
6. Be My Life
7. Where Do You Go (When You Get Home)
8. What Did I Do Wrong
9. Someplace Else Now
10. Mine
11. No Sad Songs
12. For You

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZB7QACY/?tag=imwan-20

Actorman · **Joined:** 30 Jun 2010 **Posts:** 192

This is awesome news. Hopefully they will follow it up with her 1976 A&M album, Love Me By Name.

plorentz · **Joined:** 19 Jan 2007 **Posts:** 279

oooooohhhhhmygaaaaaawwwwdd... I am SO ready for this.

Kid Bailey · 16 Jul 2006

It's great to see so much of Lesley's stuff coming out now-it's all very good.

Linda · **Posted:** Thu Aug 06, 2015 5:19 pm

Bump: This has been pushed back to August 14th.

[2015-08-14] Lesley Gore "Someplace Else Now" remaster (Real Gone)

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