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Well, I did a 60’s take on A Tale of Three Bobbys (which should have been FOUR Bobbys as I left out Bobby Darin), so I think it’s only fitting I should give the girls of the 60’s a shot. So I rounded up a few lovely ladies from my teen years. One world-wide super star, one very successful pop singer. And three you may not even recall! See how many of these songs you remember!
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Dusty Springfield
Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), known professionally as Dusty Springfield, was an English pop singer and record producer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s. With her distinctive sensual sound, she was an important blue-eyed soul singer and at her peak was one of the most successful British female performers, with six top 20 singles on the United States Billboard Hot 100 and sixteen on the United Kingdom Singles Chart from 1963 to 1989. She is a member of both the US Rock and Roll and UK Music Halls of Fame. International polls have named Springfield among the best female rock artists of all time. Her image, supported by a peroxide blonde bouffant hairstyle, evening gowns, and heavy make-up, as well as her flamboyant performances on the black and white television of the 1960s, made her an icon of theSwinging Sixties.
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Lesley Gore
Lesley Sue Goldstein (May 2, 1946 – February 16, 2015), better known as Lesley Gore, was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist. At the age of 16, in 1963, she recorded the pop hit “It’s My Party”, and followed it up with other hits including “Judy’s Turn to Cry”, “You Don’t Own Me”, and “California Nights”. Gore also worked as an actress and composed songs with her brother Michael Gore for the 1980 film Fame, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award. She hosted an LGBT-oriented public television show, In the Life, on American TV in the 2000s, and was active until 2014.
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Shelley Fabares
Michele Ann Marie “Shelley” Fabares (/fæˈbreɪ/; born January 19, 1944) is an American actress and singer. Fabares is known for her roles as Donna Reed’s daughter Mary Stone on The Donna Reed Show (1958–1963), and as Hayden Fox’s love interest (and eventual wife) Christine Armstrong on the sitcom Coach (1989–1997). She was Elvis Presley’s co-star in three films. In 1962, her recording of “Johnny Angel” reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Peggy March
Peggy March (born Margaret Annemarie Battavio, March 8, 1948, Lansdale, Pennsylvania) is an American pop singer. She is primarily known for her 1963 million-selling song “I Will Follow Him”.
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Marcie Blane
Marcie Blane (born Marcia Blank, May 21, 1944 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American singer who recorded pop music. The Seville record label issued a demo performed by the high school student as a favor for a friend. The song was “Bobby’s Girl”, which was followed by “What Does a Girl Do”.Released in the fall of 1962, “Bobby’s Girl” made #2 on the Cash Box chart and #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and was later recorded for the German market in their language. It sold over one million copies by 1963, and was awarded a gold disc. Around 1965 Marcie retired from the music business and, as of the early 1990s, was a music and arts educator in New York. Marcia has two kids, four grandchildren. Soon after she left her husband, CFO Xerox, Retired controller IBM, Larry Zimmerman.
So how’d you do?
Picture Credits:
Dusty Springfield — fanart.tv
Lesley Gore — richrusso.net
Shelley Fabares — www.dailyhoroscopes1.com
Peggy March — www.zoomerradio.ca
Marcie Blane–www.president-records.co.uk
Impromptu Promptlings 
My Auntie Al and her sisters 🙂
Not sure if I am embedding right.
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Oh! I remember them. They did “I Love How You Love Me.” Well that’s just too cool, Shannon. Thank you so much for posting that video. Wish it had come sooner so more folks would have seen it. I’ll try to post it again in a few weeks. I’m going to do another one of these posts.
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Oh yes! These were in my time for sure! I was a huge Dusty Springfield fan – though did not know she’d passed on in 1999. I still listen to her songs, many of which are on my playlist.
And Leslie Gore, also well known to me. I think “You Don’t Own Me,” might have been my favorite. Though “It’s My Party…” popped into my mind immediately when I saw her name.
And I believe I’ve even used “Johnny Angel” in my 25 Days, 25 Songs challenge.
While I recognized Marcie Blane, a song did not immediately come to mind. But when I saw “Bobby’s Girl,” I knew it! YAY!
I wondered if there might have been someone you’d include I might not know, like a country singer, but I happily knew them all! 🙂
A girl group of the 60s, which was a favorite of mine (among others) is The Ronettes. This was the song I loved of theirs:
GREAT POST!!!!!!!!!
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Well we need to do a salute to the girl bands. And black female artists (which is one I’m planning). I love the Ronettes.
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My favorite Bobby Darin song–Clementine. It’s beyond Cool and back again:
Looks like I didn’t embed but you can click the link. BTW, I LOVE this post because I know all those songs you posted by heart! XOXOXO!
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Fixed it! I had to stop and think about that one. Didn’t come to mind till I started listening. Good one!
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That’s the Irish in us.
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Oh! You mean the three deaths at a time?
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Did Lesley Gore also sing “My Boyfriend’s Back” ? All of those songs you mentioned by her are also in the jukebox of my brain.
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The Angels did the original “My Boyfriend’s Back.” It was also a big hit for The Chiffons.
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these songs were mostly in my daughter’s era, my teen music was early 50s. But I know them from hearing her play them a million times. 🙂
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What were some of your favorites from the 50’s? I grew up listening to that music, too. Lots of older cousins.
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Yes…I can sing–or at least hum–ALL of these five songs. The Peggy March hit, “I will Follow Him” I know well from watching Sister Act, Whoopi Goldberg…five thousand times. “Johnny Angel,” I don’t really know the lyrics, and always think of the movie “Johnny Guitar,” but I can hum both songs. The Lesley Gore and Dusty Springfield tunes are in my repertoire, and I recall “Bobby’s Girl,” more than vaguely.
Anyway…these hit songs all came out in the early 1960s…when I had four kids under the age of 5, and a 9 year-old. We had TV, of course, and listened to the radio much of the time.
Thanks for the sing-fest! It’s fun…. now I’m going to have those tunes earworming their way through my brain. 🙂
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Me, too! “Bobby’s Girl” was playing all night long. Never did run out of quarters! 😀
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Love Dusty, play her a lot. She could be a Diva and could have been bigger in the States if she had listened to the advice given. Nevertheless, Dusty Springfield was one of our best Female Singers, her voice and music never ages. Lost too young. Did you know she was nearly blind. Can I say here I was shocked to hear Natalie Cole died, year younger than me, tragic (same thing as me Heart Failure!).
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I put Dusty up there first just for you, Anna! I knew you were a big fan. I didn’t know about Natalie Cole. That’s really sad. I loved the way they remastered her duet with her dad on “Unforgettable.”
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Thank you Cheryl, I actually have her playing right now she is singing “Windmills of your mind”. Yes, so sad about Natalie Cole, that was a complete FIRST that duet with Nat King Cole, loved her Father’s voice, he died young as well. Wayne Rogers died today too, number three?
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Oh, that’s too bad. I loved him in MASH. Yeah, I kind of have a thing about the whole three deaths, too…
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