Fact #186451
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Lesley Gore records It's My Party at A + R Studios, New York City, USA. The track is produced by Quincy Jones and arranged by Klaus Ogerman, who are rushing to beat a Phil Spector version.
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Wally Gold (songwriter) : As Phil always did, it took him forever to make a record. If you remember, he just laid sound on sound. It really took a long time for him to finish a single. So he cut the tracks to It's My Party and he's in the middle of doing it when (publisher) Aaron (Aaron Schroeder) gets a call from Quincy Jones, from his office right across the street at 745 Fifth Avenue.
Quincy says, 'Aaron, you've got to run over. I just recorded your song.' Aaron sort of turned a little pale at the time, because he knew Phil was working on it, making a hell of a record, and it was almost done. Aaron says, 'I've gotta kill that record. Phil will really get upset.'
Quincy Jones : I remember we cut the record on a Saturday, and I went by to see Charles Aznavour, who I'd worked with in Paris, that night, and I saw Spector getting out of a car. . . He told me [about the record]. . . so we went and put it out on Monday!
Lesley Gore : It was really a triumvirate of creative people ... Quincy being kind of the head guy, the guy at the top of the pyramid. Then, perhaps myself down at the lower left corner, and there was a third guy who was very, very prominent in helping us get that sound and he was the arranger, Klaus Ogerman.
So, the way we worked it, Klaus and I spent a lot of time together going through material. We would take what we thought was the best of the crop and kind of put it into my range and do a kind of piano / voice arrangement. Then, we would bring Quincy in and go over it again and see how we felt about those tunes. So, Klaus did a lot of arranging because of my voice and because of where the range was. So, it really was a melding of three creative people.
Wally Gold : I don't think Phil ever came to the office again.
(Source : not known)
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Quincy says, 'Aaron, you've got to run over. I just recorded your song.' Aaron sort of turned a little pale at the time, because he knew Phil was working on it, making a hell of a record, and it was almost done. Aaron says, 'I've gotta kill that record. Phil will really get upset.'
Quincy Jones : I remember we cut the record on a Saturday, and I went by to see Charles Aznavour, who I'd worked with in Paris, that night, and I saw Spector getting out of a car. . . He told me [about the record]. . . so we went and put it out on Monday!
Lesley Gore : It was really a triumvirate of creative people ... Quincy being kind of the head guy, the guy at the top of the pyramid. Then, perhaps myself down at the lower left corner, and there was a third guy who was very, very prominent in helping us get that sound and he was the arranger, Klaus Ogerman.
So, the way we worked it, Klaus and I spent a lot of time together going through material. We would take what we thought was the best of the crop and kind of put it into my range and do a kind of piano / voice arrangement. Then, we would bring Quincy in and go over it again and see how we felt about those tunes. So, Klaus did a lot of arranging because of my voice and because of where the range was. So, it really was a melding of three creative people.
Wally Gold : I don't think Phil ever came to the office again.
(Source : not known)