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Remember (Walking In The Sand) 🚶➡️
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Leader Of The Pack 💅
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Leader Of The Pack 👑
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Remember (Walking In The Sand) 🚶♀️
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Leader Of The Pack 🔥
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"You Can't Sit Down" is song originally recorded as an instrumental in 1959 as "Can't Sit Down" by The Bim Bam Boos, and popularized by the 1963 version by #TheDovells, which included lyrics and vocals. The Dovells version of the song peaked at No.3 on the #Billboard Hot 100 chart and has been covered by many artists, including #theShangriLas and #BruceSpringsteen.
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Leader Of The Pack 🐾
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Remember (Walking In The Sand) 🚶♂️
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Remember (Walking In The Sand) ⛹
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Leader Of The Pack 🐺
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Leader Of The Pack 👑
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Remember (Walking In The Sand) ⏳
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"Remember (Walking in the Sand)", also known as "Remember", is a song written by #GeorgeShadowMorton. It was originally recorded by the girl group #theShangriLas, who had a top five hit with it in 1964, their first hit single. A remake by #Aerosmith in 1979 was a minor hit. There have been many other versions of the song as well.
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The Queens NYC~ bad girl~ 60s girl group The Shangri-Las with their cover of The Isley Brothers’ “Shout!” (https://tinyurl.com/mputfddj) from their 1965 debut album “Leader of the Pack” (https://tinyurl.com/573fckd8).
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"Remember (Walking in the Sand)", also known as "Remember", is a song written by #GeorgeShadowMorton. It was originally recorded by the girl group #theShangriLas, who had a top five hit with it in 1964, their first hit single. A remake by #Aerosmith in 1979 was a minor hit. There have been many other versions of the song as well.
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Remember (Walking In The Sand) 🚶♀️
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
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Leader Of The Pack 👑
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Remember (Walking In The Sand) 🚶♂️
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #AfternoonShow
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🎵 Give Him A Great Big Kisshttps://open.spotify.com/track/3oXZc7JQUfqs29lpyQFny6
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Ivj2i9BbyMoJmb0ZucUM2🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
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SpaceAce Sunday | The Shangri-Las – Golden Hits of The Shangri-Las (1966, US)
The next album SpaceAce – aka J, our dearly missed friend – submitted to the project is number 1051 on The List.
As previously mentioned in a previous SpaceAce Sunday spotlight, the last few albums J submitted are all from 1966, due to me pointing out that we had no albums from that year on The List at that point and wondering what was up with that. So, that explains why this compilation is here…or does it? While The Shangri-Las did have a couple studio albums (both released in 1965), the name of the game at that time in American pop music was more about hit singles, so I wonder if this compilation – released while the band was still at the height of their popularity – was perhaps their most popular album. I mean, I’m totally guessing here without J’s insight, but I find it curious that this compilation has a volume in the excellent 33 1/3 book series. As far as I know, there aren’t other compilations given the 33 1/3 treatment (other than a soundtrack and a tribute album), so it seems like this one is a special case?
Anyway, I digress! …but, also, now I really want to read the 33 1/3 book, by Ada Wolin. I mean, here’s the blurb on it – don’t you want to read it now too?
Of the many girl-groups that came out of the 1960s, none is more idiosyncratic and influential than the Shangri-Las. They were together only five years, but within that time they subverted pop standards and foreshadowed a generation of tough women in music. Critically, they are not lauded in the way of the Ronettes, and they are certainly not a household name like the Supremes. They were a little too low-brow with an uncouth flair for theatrics that has placed them just left of the girl-group canon.
This book examines the still-elusive validation of 1960s girl-groups as a whole, but also paradoxically aims to free the Shangri-Las from that category, viewing them instead with the sort of individuality traditionally afforded to rock groups. They were somehow able to challenge the status quo under the guise of sticky-sweet pop, a feat not many pop groups can achieve, but which they do fleetingly but not insubstantially in Golden Hits of the Shangri-Las.
For every other 1001 Other Albums spotlight, I’ve listened to the album at least once, either prior to posting or the day of. But, full disclosure: I haven’t yet listened to this album in its entirety because I kind of want to read this book beforehand. The description of The Shangri-Las having a “tough girl” persona doesn’t compute with the bubblegum album cover and the couple of tracks I have heard – and they’re cited as influencing a lot of musicians I respect (e.g., Kim Gordon, Kathleen Hanna, Amy Winehouse) – so I sort of want some context first. Am I overthinking it? Yep! But that’s what I do.
Anyway, thanks J for adding another book to be TBR pile, I’m rather looking forward to listening to this one.
- I can’t find a Songlink for this one, so either try the YT link, or check out the 1996 compilation linked below which has all of the same songs (in a different order) plus a couple extras:
- Discogs: The Shangri-Las – Golden Hits of The Shangri-Las
#1001OtherAlbums #1960s #ListenToThis #music #musicDiscovery #Musodon #popMusic #SpaceAceSunday #TheShangriLas
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🔊 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MiddayShow
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🎵 Leader of the Packhttps://open.spotify.com/track/6O5PIO5pAWxdoxvaUFQ02G
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/55kiq57r1ErxcYnr6B3P6g🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
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🔊 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Early
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🎵 Dressed in Blackhttps://open.spotify.com/track/1on0s4K8g6GvxXQQZQxtxZ
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https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5F6PDmIbE0oCzbwTklfrLZ🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
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For today's #ThursdayFiveList c/o @neurothing we cling to #TheMemories while we still can.
Hüsker Dü ?
Dive For Your Memory #TheGoBetweens
https://youtu.be/dqt6VbP1xZg?si=N5FKbz_Zm_WD9d9lRemember (Walking In the Sand) #TheShangriLas
https://youtu.be/V5YxtweUxrA?si=Jo-NltY38fMAz53RDo You Remember Rock and Roll Radio? #Ramones
https://youtu.be/Gi9a7IdRiBI?si=0KQ8ar0PftRXt3g6Come and Get These Memories #MarthaAndTheVandellas
https://youtu.be/S75yUJI8FKs?si=VovXHdnjfwRkKRAgRemember #JohnLennon
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🧵RIP Mary Weiss
Brown Spring Weekend
Providence RI, Sat 22 Apr 1967
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“Mary Weiss, Who Sang ‘Leader of the Pack,’ Is Dead at 75
As the lead singer of the Shangri-Las, she conveyed passion, pathos and toughness — and reached the Top 40 six times while still in her teens. NY Times, 22 Jan 2024”
NYTimes gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/22/arts/music/mary-weiss-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Pk0.1rRL.IoPmuMrvcCvx&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Brown Spring Weekend
Providence RI, Sat 22 Apr 1967
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Mary Weiss, Lead Singer of the Shangri-Las, Dies at 75
“I had enough pain in me at the time to pull off anything and get into it and sound believable,” Weiss later recalled in 2001. “You can hear it on the performances. It was very easy for me. The recording studio was the place where you could really release what you were feeling without everybody looking at you.”
https://pitchfork.com/news/mary-weiss-lead-singer-of-the-shangri-las-dies-at-75/
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One of popular music's greatest vocalists.
