Long a fan of 1960s girl groups, Lesley Gore’s “You Don’t Own Me” has been one of the songs floating on the periphery of my consciousness; I know I’ve heard this thing a million times on the radio and some such, but until last night if I hadn’t ever placed names– neither song title nor recording artist.
Whilst I was doing a cursory search on the song, I found the following video on YouTube– an actual live performance from (I’d guess) 1964, which is about as perfect as the studio performance. The real interest lies in the video itself– the gauzy blur, tight angles and high contrast lighting combine with the haunting sound and Gore’s amazing hair and weird stage prescence to make this performance seem as if it had come beamed from Distant Regions of Far Space.
