My Town, My Guy & Me

My Town, My Guy & Me is the fifth studio album by American singer Lesley Gore, released in 1965.

My Town, My Guy & Me
Studio album by
Lesley Gore
Released1965 (1965)
Genre
LabelMercury
ProducerQuincy Jones
Lesley Gore chronology
Girl Talk
(1964)		 My Town, My Guy & Me
(1965)		 Lesley Gore Sings All About Love
(1966)

The album was originally titled Lesley Gore Sings for Girls in Love.[1]

Commercial performance

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]

Critical reception

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]

Track listing
Side one
No.TitleWriter(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"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 
Side two
No.TitleWriter(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 

References
  1. Bleile, Penny. "Lesley Gore Tries Separating College Books, Musical Notes." Valley News (Van Nuys, CA), 1 October 1965. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  2. Unterberger, Richie. "Album review". AllMusic. RhythmOne. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  3. "Lesley Gore chart history". Billboard.com. Nielsen Business Media. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  4. Inc, Nielsen Business Media (2 October 1965). "Billboard". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
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