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

[Joe Allonby]

Odd connections. Two of the guys in my band wrote "Tell Me What You
Want Me to Do" for Shangri-La's singer Mary Weiss.

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Bekah <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I forgot to include this:
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> Lyrics to "Leader of the Pack""
> http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/the_shangri-las/the_leader_of_the_pack.html
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> Bekah
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa4WzE_CrdY&feature=related
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> 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.
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> I had to check because I didn't remember -  the word "evil" is not in the
> song lyrics - that's another song.
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> Bekah
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> 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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