It’s My Party’ singer-songwriter Lesley Gore, Brooklyn born, dies at 68
February 17, 2015 By Mark Kennedy Associated Press
In this 2008 file photo, Lesley Gore performs at the ASCAP musical tribute which honored Quincy Jones with the ASCAP Pied Piper Award, in New York. Singer-songwriter Gore, who topped the charts in 1963 with her epic song of teenage angst, "It's My Party," and followed it up with the hits "Judy's Turn to Cry," and "You Don't Own Me," died of cancer, Monday. She was 68. AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano, File
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Singer-songwriter Lesley Gore, who topped the charts in 1963 at age 16 with her epic song of teenage angst, “It’s My Party,” and followed it up with the hits “Judy’s Turn to Cry,” and the feminist anthem “You Don’t Own Me,” died Monday. She was 68.
Gore, a nonsmoker, died of lung cancer at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, according to her partner of 33 years, Lois Sasson.
“She was a wonderful human being — caring, giving, a great feminist, great woman, great human being, great humanitarian,” Sasson, a jewelry designer, told The Associated Press.