VLVL (13) p. 270 - "He wanted to quote the Shangri-Las..."

[Bekah]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa4WzE_CrdY&feature=related

I was 16  - loved that song.   It stirred some kind of emotion in the  
young souls of many teen girls and they (I) cried and cried.

I had to check because I didn't remember -  the word "evil" is not in  
the song lyrics - that's another song.

Bekah


On Mar 11, 2009, at 8:44 PM, Richard Ryan wrote:

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> *** Babies of Wackiness: "Reference to the Shangri-Las' old rock  
> 'n' roll song "Leader of the Pack." The full line goes, 'He's bad,  
> but he's not evil.'"
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> *** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shangri-Las
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> "...The [Shangri-las'] recordings for Morton featured lavish  
> production with heavy orchestration and sound effects, and their  
> next and biggest hit, "Leader of the Pack" (U.S. #1, UK #11),  
> climaxes with roaring motorcycles and breaking glass. UK re-issues  
> peaked at 3 in 1972 and 7 in 1976. The song epitomized the "death  
> disc"; other examples include Ray Peterson's "Tell Laura I Love  
> Her", Jan and Dean's "Dead Man's Curve", J Frank Wilson and the  
> Cavaliers's "Last Kiss, and Twinkle's "Terry"."
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> *** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leader_of_the_Pack
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> "...In July 1964, Morton recorded the song with the Shangri-Las at  
> the Ultrasonic Sound studio on the second floor of a Manhattan  
> hotel. Billy Joel, then a young session musician, claimed he played  
> piano on "Leader of the Pack", but this has been denied by Greenwich.
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> According to legend, to add the authentic sound of a motorcycle  
> engine, one was driven through the lobby of the hotel and up to the  
> floor of the recording studio. No one was arrested, but a ticket  
> was issued[3]. However, in an interview four decades later, Shangri- 
> Las lead singer Mary Weiss said the motorcycle sound was taken from  
> an effects record. The Zombies' drummer Hugh Grundy recalls revving  
> up a motorcycle backstage when the Shangri-Las performed on a U.S.  
> tour.
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> In the United Kingdom, the song was refused airplay by the BBC,  
> probably due to its death theme, although some have speculated that  
> it was considered likely to encourage violence between mods and  
> rockers [...]
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> In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the song among the 500 Greatest Songs  
> of All Time, at #447."
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