{"id":3180,"date":"2023-10-18T09:32:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T20:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=3180"},"modified":"2023-10-18T09:34:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T20:34:38","slug":"its-my-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=3180","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s My Party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A song by American singer-songwriter\u00a0Lesley Gore, &#8220;It&#8217;s My Party,&#8221;\u00a0from her 1963 debut studio album\u00a0&#8220;I&#8217;ll Cry If I Want To,&#8221; went to number 1 in Australia, New Zealand,\u00a0Canada and the USA. Gore was 16 when she recorded this song, which led the media to call her &#8220;The Teen Queen.&#8221; Gore was driving when she heard the song on the radio for the first time. She had never heard her voice through a car radio before, and initially didn&#8217;t recognize it as herself, thinking somebody else had recorded her song,&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s My Party&#8221; is about the discomfort a teenage\u00a0girl feels at her birthday party when her boyfriend Johnny disappears, only to return later in the company of Judy, who is &#8220;wearing his ring&#8221;, indicating Judy has replaced the birthday girl as  Johnny&#8217;s love interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week in 1981 a cover version by Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin topped the singles chart in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dave Stewart &amp; Barbara Gaskin - It&#039;s My Party (1981)\u2022 TopPop\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FJCUIWrVPkw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A song by American singer-songwriter\u00a0Lesley Gore, &#8220;It&#8217;s My Party,&#8221;\u00a0from her 1963 debut studio album\u00a0&#8220;I&#8217;ll Cry If I Want To,&#8221; went to number 1 in Australia, New Zealand,\u00a0Canada and the USA. Gore was 16 when she recorded this song, which led the media to call her &#8220;The Teen Queen.&#8221; Gore was driving when she heard the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[356,355],"class_list":["post-3180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","tag-barbara-gaskin","tag-dave-stewart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3183,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions\/3183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}