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  • You Don't Own Me
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  • Gramophone record
  • Music download
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  • eng
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  • Mercury Records singles
  • Number-one singles in Australia
  • Lesley Gore songs
  • Songs with feminist themes
  • 1964 singles
  • 2015 singles
  • 1963 singles
  • 1963 songs
  • Songs written by David White (musician)
  • Songs written by John Medora
  • Bette Midler songs
  • Song recordings produced by Quincy Jones
  • G-Eazy songs
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  • %22You Don't Own Me%22 is a popular song written by the Philadelphia songwriters John Madara and David White, and recorded by Lesley Gore in 1963, when Gore was 17 years old. The song reached number 2 on the Billboard Pop Singles Chart in the United States (just behind The Beatles' %22I Want to Hold Your Hand%22). The song remained at number 2 for three consecutive weeks, unable to overcome the Beatles' hit, and became Gore's second most successful hit next to It's My Party. It was Gore's last top ten single.The song is an example of threatened emancipation, as the singer tells a lover that he does not own her; that he is not to tell her what to do or what to say; that he is not to put her on display. The song's lyrics became an inspiration for younger women and played in a major factor in the rise of the second wave feminist movement. Gore said, %22My take on the song was: I'm 17, what a wonderful thing, to stand up on a stage and shake your finger at people and sing you don't own me%22. In Gore's obituary, The New York Times referred to %22You Don't Own Me%22 as %22indelibly defiant%22. It was featured in the television show American Horror Story.
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  • David White (musician)
  • John Medora
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  • Quincy Jones
  • Parker Ighile
  • Lesley Gore
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  • Platinum
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  • english
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  • RCA Records
  • Mercury Records
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  • 1963
  • 2015
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  • You Don't Own Me
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  • TREPOHJ128F14637B0
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