''California Nights'' is a 1967 album by
Lesley Gore
Lesley Sue Goldstein (May 2, 1946 – February 16, 2015), known professionally as Lesley Gore, was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist. At the age of 16, she recorded the pop music, pop hit "It's My Party (Lesley Gore song), I ...
, the last of her seven albums released on the
Mercury Records
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label.
The title track on the album, ''California Nights'', peaked at #16 and was Gore's last Top 20 hit.
Bob Crewe
Robert Stanley Crewe (November 12, 1930 – September 11, 2014) was an American songwriter, dancer, singer, manager, and record producer. He was known for producing, and co-writing with Bob Gaudio, a string of Top 10 singles for the Four Season ...
produced seven of the tracks on the album, while
Quincy Jones
Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, musician, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer. His career spans 70 years in the entertainment industry with a record of 80 Grammy Award n ...
produced three.
The album was reissued in 2015 as part of a
compilation
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M ...
in both album and CD format by
Ace Records, which included 15 bonus tracks from her Mercury catalogue.
''
Cash Box
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'' said of the single "Treat Me Like a Lady" that it is "a rhythmic, medium-paced bluesy ode about a gal who wants her boyfriend to pay her proper respect."
Track listing
;Side A
#California Nights
(Marvin Hamlisch
Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (June 2, 1944 – August 6, 2012) was an American composer and conductor. Hamlisch was one of only seventeen people to win Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards. This collection of all four is referred to as an " EGOT ...
, Howard Liebling) - 2:44
#Treat Me Like a Lady
(Bob Crewe
Robert Stanley Crewe (November 12, 1930 – September 11, 2014) was an American songwriter, dancer, singer, manager, and record producer. He was known for producing, and co-writing with Bob Gaudio, a string of Top 10 singles for the Four Season ...
, Gary Knight) - 2:56
#Bad
(Bob Crewe, Joel Hirschhorn
Joel Hirschhorn (December 18, 1937 – September 17, 2005) was an American songwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Song on two occasions. He also wrote songs for a number of musicians, including Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison. Hirsc ...
, Al Kasha
Alfred Kasha (January 22, 1937 – September 14, 2020) was an American songwriter, whose songs include " The Morning After" from '' The Poseidon Adventure''.
Life
Kasha started songwriting and producing at a young age and was hired as a producer ...
) - 2:46
#I'm Going Out (The Same Way I Came In)
(Bob Crewe, Gary Knight) - 2:33
#Maybe Now
(Lesley Gore
Lesley Sue Goldstein (May 2, 1946 – February 16, 2015), known professionally as Lesley Gore, was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist. At the age of 16, she recorded the pop music, pop hit "It's My Party (Lesley Gore song), I ...
, Michael Gore
Michael Gore (born March 5, 1951) is an American composer. Gore is the younger brother of singer-songwriter Lesley Gore.
Biography
A 1969 graduate of the Dwight-Englewood School, Gore received the school's Distinguished Alumni Award in 2004.
Go ...
) - 2:21
;Side B
#Love Goes on Forever
(Bob Crewe, Gary Knight) - 3:00
#Off and Running
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, Toni Wine
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) - 1:52
#Lilacs and Violets
(Fred Anisfield, Larry Weiss
Laurence D. "Larry" Weiss (born March 25, 1941) is an American songwriter and musician. He wrote "Rhinestone Cowboy", a US no.1 hit for Glen Campbell in 1975; and co-wrote "Bend Me, Shape Me", "Hi Ho Silver Lining" and several other international ...
) - 2:07
#The Bubble Broke
(Bob Crewe, Raymond Bloodworth, L. Russell Brown
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) - 2:56
#Cry Like a Baby
(Jo Armstead
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, Ashford & Simpson
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Ashford was born in Fairfield, South Carolina, ...
) - 2:13
Compilation album
''California Nights'' was released as a compilation album in both LP and CD format by
Ace Records in May 2015 (UK) and in June 2015 (USA). It includes the reissue of the ten tracks from the original 1967 album, plus fifteen bonus tracks from Gore's Mercury catalogue.
The bonus tracks include ten tracks from the 1965 album ''All About Love'', which preceded ''California Nights'', two tracks from the 1965 album ''
My Town, My Guy & Me'', and three tracks from the 5-CD box set ''It’s My Party'', released in 1994.
Tracks 1 to 10 are from the original album ''California Nights'' (1967), tracks 11 and 12 are from the album ''My Town, My Guy & Me'' (1965), tracks 13 to 21 and 23 are from the album ''All About Love'' (1965) and tracks 22, 24 and 25 are from the ''It’s My Party'' box set (1994).
;Tracks from CDCHD 1439
#California Nights
(Marvin Hamlisch
Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (June 2, 1944 – August 6, 2012) was an American composer and conductor. Hamlisch was one of only seventeen people to win Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards. This collection of all four is referred to as an " EGOT ...
, Howard Liebling) - 2:44
#Treat Me Like a Lady
(Bob Crewe
Robert Stanley Crewe (November 12, 1930 – September 11, 2014) was an American songwriter, dancer, singer, manager, and record producer. He was known for producing, and co-writing with Bob Gaudio, a string of Top 10 singles for the Four Season ...
, Gary Knight) - 2:56
#Bad
(Bob Crewe, Joel Hirschhorn
Joel Hirschhorn (December 18, 1937 – September 17, 2005) was an American songwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Song on two occasions. He also wrote songs for a number of musicians, including Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison. Hirsc ...
, Al Kasha
Alfred Kasha (January 22, 1937 – September 14, 2020) was an American songwriter, whose songs include " The Morning After" from '' The Poseidon Adventure''.
Life
Kasha started songwriting and producing at a young age and was hired as a producer ...
) - 2:46
#I'm Going Out (The Same Way I Came In)
(Bob Crewe, Gary Knight) - 2:33
#Maybe Now
(Lesley Gore
Lesley Sue Goldstein (May 2, 1946 – February 16, 2015), known professionally as Lesley Gore, was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist. At the age of 16, she recorded the pop music, pop hit "It's My Party (Lesley Gore song), I ...
, Michael Gore
Michael Gore (born March 5, 1951) is an American composer. Gore is the younger brother of singer-songwriter Lesley Gore.
Biography
A 1969 graduate of the Dwight-Englewood School, Gore received the school's Distinguished Alumni Award in 2004.
Go ...
) - 2:21
#Love Goes on Forever
(Bob Crewe, Gary Knight) - 3:00
#Off and Running
(Carole Bayer Carole is a feminine given name (see Carl (name), Carl for more information) and occasionally a surname.
Carole may refer to:
Given name
*Carole B. Balin (born 1964), American Reform rabbi, professor of Jewish history
*Carole Bayer Sager (born 19 ...
, Toni Wine
Toni Wine (born June 4, 1947 in Washington Heights, New York City, United States) is an American pop music songwriter, who wrote songs for such artists as The Mindbenders ("A Groovy Kind of Love"), Tony Orlando and Dawn (" Candida"), and Checkma ...
) - 1:52
#Lilacs and Violets
(Fred Anisfield, Larry Weiss
Laurence D. "Larry" Weiss (born March 25, 1941) is an American songwriter and musician. He wrote "Rhinestone Cowboy", a US no.1 hit for Glen Campbell in 1975; and co-wrote "Bend Me, Shape Me", "Hi Ho Silver Lining" and several other international ...
) - 2:07
#The Bubble Broke
(Bob Crewe, Raymond Bloodworth, L. Russell Brown
Lawrence "Larry" Russell Brown (born June 29, 1940), known as L. Russell Brown, is an American lyricist and composer. He is most noted for his songs, co-written with Irwin Levine, "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" and "Knock Thr ...
) - 2:56
#Cry Like a Baby
(Jo Armstead
Josephine Armstead (born October 8, 1944), also known as "Joshie" Jo Armstead, is an American soul singer and songwriter. Armstead began her career singing backing vocals for blues musician Bobby "Blue" Bland before becoming an Ikette in the Ike ...
, Ashford & Simpson
Ashford & Simpson were an American husband-and-wife songwriting-production team and recording duo of Nickolas Ashford (May 4, 1941 – August 22, 2011) and Valerie Simpson (born August 26, 1946).
Ashford was born in Fairfield, South Carolina, ...
) - 2:13
#My Town, My Guy, and Me
(Bob Elgin, Lesley Gore, Paul Kaufman) - 2:27
#Let Me Dream
(Teddy Randazzo
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, Lou Stallman, Bobby Weinstein
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) - 2:21
#Start the Party Again
(Artie Resnick
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, Kenny Young
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) - 2:15
#I Won't Love You Anymore (Sorry)
(Lesley Gore, Michael Gore) - 2:05
#I Just Can't Get Enough of You
(Jo Armstead
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, Ashford & Simpson) - 1:58
#To Know Him Is to Love Him
(Phil Spector
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) - 2:29
#Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
(Gerry Goffin
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, Carole King
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) - 2:18
#Only Last Night
(Barry Mason
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, Les Reed) - 2:35
#With Any Other Girl
(Shelly Coburn) - 2:19
#I Can Tell
(Steve Duboff, Artie Kornfeld
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) - 2:22
#We Know We're in Love
(Lesley Gore, Michael Gore) - 2:11
#Yeah, Yeah, Yeah (That Boy of Mine)
(Charles Koppelman
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, Artie Kornfeld, Don Rubin) - 2:06
#That's What I'll Do
(George Motola
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Early life and career
Motola, whose last name is often misspelled as Mottola, was born i ...
, Rickie Page) - 1:49
#Happiness Is Just Around the Corner
(Van McCoy
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) - 2:16
#Hold Me Tight
(Lesley Gore, Michael Gore) - 2:26
Notes
References
;Citations
;Sources
*Mercury MG-21120
*CDCHD 1439
*Tolliver, Trevor (August 1, 2015), ''You Don't Own Me: The Life and Times of Lesley Gore'', Backbeat Books
External links
Review of 1967 California Nights (LP)at
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Review of 2015 compilation albumat
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Lesley Gore albums
1967 albums
Mercury Records albums
Ace Records (United Kingdom) compilation albums