In a lot of the big hits of the early '60s, there's a kind of queasy racial dynamic at work. White songwriters, managers, label execs, and producers would team up with a talented young black singer or ...

Singer-songwriter Lesley Gore, who shot to stardom as a New Jersey teenager with the 1960s pop hit "It's My Party" and co-wrote music for the 1980 film "Fame," died on Monday in New York, a longtime ...