:: mike errico diary ::

:: Friday, May 6, 2005 ::

SIMPSONS/LESLEY GORE CONNECTION: A DAILY DOUBLE

EPISODE: "Marge on the Lam" (Original Airdate: 11/5/93)


Homer and Chief Wiggum sing Lesley's #13 hit "Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows" during a Thelma and Louise-styled police chase to catch Marge and Ruth. Just as Ruth is about to give herself up, Marge steers the car across the desert, unaware they are heading right for the Grand Chasm. Homer convinces Marge to stop, however, he and Wiggum go over the edge of the chasm, landing on a big pile of garbage.


EPISODE: "Bart of Darkness" (Original Airdate: 9/4/94)


Martin (above) sings "Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows" at the end of the episode. Stuck in his room with a broken leg (a la Rear Window), Bart watches Ned Flanders through a telescope and thinks he sees his neighbor murder his wife Maude. After Bart and Lisa go through several crazy escapades, Ned breaks down in tears and confesses his awful crime: He killed Maude's favorite plant and buried it in the yard so she wouldn't know.



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:: mike 8:12 AM [+] ::

DUSTY SPRINGFIELD/LESLEY GORE CONNECTION

"You Don't Own Me" (which is also on "Ever Since")

What I found (I'll have to check it with Lesley): Originally recorded by Lesley Gore and produced by a young Quincy Jones, this record was only made because Lesley was asked by Quincy to record a song she didn't like and she made a deal with him to record it if he let her record one of her own compositions. She selected "You Don't Own Me" an anthem of women's rights that predated Helen Reddy's "I Am Woman" by several years.
:: mike 7:30 AM [+] ::

JOAN JETT/LESLEY GORE CONNECTION

From the press kit for BAD REPUTATION: "She's perfected an "if-you-don't-wanna-fuck-me-fuck-off" stance that makes good on all the Runaways' potential for glittery sexual threat. The first song she recorded for the album, with ex-Sex Pistols Steve Jones and Paul Cook, was Lesley Gore's "You Don't Own Me," which includes its own litmus test for legitimacy--if you can cover Gore's protofeminist anthem without coming off as a pretentious spokesperson, you've got a right to its power."



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:: mike 12:34 PM [+] ::

MICHELLE BRANCH/LESLEY GORE CONNECTION

In 2002, Michelle appeared on an episode of American Dreams on NBC portraying Lesley Gore and performing Gore's hit "You Don't Own Me," which is also on the new one.

I have a feeling this game of "six degrees" could go on for a pretty long time.

Michelle Branch
American Dreams


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:: mike 12:06 PM [+] ::

NIKKA COSTA/LESLEY GORE CONNECTION

I'm just digging around... amazing what comes up.

(Out Here) On My Own (which is on "Ever Since") - written by Michael Gore and Lesley Gore for the movie "Fame," reached #19 for Irene Cara, and got an Academy Award nomination for Best Song. Nikka covered it on her first album, "Nikka Costa". It was a major hit in Europe.

http://www.nikkacosta.com/


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:: mike 11:13 AM [+] ::