Vinyl Singles - Runaways, The + Joan Jett & The Blackhearts + Cherie & Marie Currie - 1976 - 1988 42 items. Jett soon released her self-titled debut. Joan Jett exposed the song to a subsequent generation of listeners when it became one of the more popular tracks on her debut solo album in the early '80s. 5 - Jett, Joan - You Dont Own Me - NL - 1979. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts are an American rock band led by artist Joan Jett.After The Runaways split in 1979, Jett pursued a solo career to explore the same aggressive punk style and met Kenny Laguna. Dusty Springfield quickly did a good cover version of "You Don't Know Me" on her first album that followed the original arrangement fairly closely, and while Springfield was undoubtedly a better singer than Gore and did a good job with this tune, it couldn't quite match the intensity and suppressed rage of the original. If that seems like no big deal several decades after woman's liberation has been in force, it was nearly revolutionary in the climate of early 1964, when women, and girls in pop/rock songs, were expected to be docile and clinging creatures. The most revolutionary aspect of "You Don't Own Me" are its lyrics, a defiant, almost angry, yet reasoned, statement of independence from her boyfriend, exclaiming - even celebrating - that he doesn't own her, can't tell her what to do, that she's free to do as she pleases (even to the point of seeing other boys), and not just one of his many toys. The instrumental break is pure cinematic angst, its sweeping strings evoking the crashing seas of a romance on the rocks. So does the assertiveness of Gore's vocal, especially when the melody tortuously changes keys before swooping downwards to its original key. The second part of the verse - not a chorus or a bridge, really, though it's totally different from the initial verse - goes into a far sunnier, though not exactly sunny per se, chord progression, as the choral backup vocals rise in fervor. I Love Rock N Roll (1981)13 - Joan Jett And The Blackhearts - You Dont Know What Youve Got (Live).wav Peak level 97.3 Track quality 100.0 Test CRC 1BD5BC5B Copy. Gore slices through the declarative, doggedly minor-keyed lyric with a seething restraint and even a hint of venom. TITLE 'You Dont Own Me' PERFORMER 'Joan Jett' INDEX 00 09:47:05 INDEX 01 09:48:04 TRACK 05 AUDIO TITLE 'Too Bad On Your Birthday' PERFORMER 'Joan Jett' INDEX 00 13:15:05. There aren't many pop songs with a more ominous introduction than the descending, quasi-classical burst of piano notes that open "You Don't Own Me," setting the stage for a melodramatically orchestrated Quincy Jones production. For a big hit single, it was pretty adventurous, too, both in arrangement and structure. Aside from "It's My Party," "You Don't Own Me" was Lesley Gore's biggest single, reaching number two in early 1964, only kept out of the number one spot by the Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand." It's also the song that presents the strongest argument for taking Gore seriously as an artist, as the song, unlike most of her hits, was about serious adult matters, not about girlish romantic whims.
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