I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I start that way, the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it.

I. Her father Leo Gore was a wealthy manufacturer of children's clothes and swimwear. Her record producer Quincy Jones responsible for all her hits from 1963 to 1965 would later become one of the most famous producers in American music.

She is perhaps best known for her 1963 pop hit "It's My Party" which Lesley Gore recorded at the age of 16. Lesley Gore (born May 2 1946) is an American singer.