#the shangri-las

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RIP Mary Weiss 

December 28, 1948 – January 19, 2024

#mary weiss #the shangri-las #january 19 #december 28

[lisamarie-vee]

#the shangri-las #rock and roll hall of fame #b&w #1960s #red bird records

[thesobsister]

The Shangri-Las, “Remember (Walking in the Sand)”

Lead singer Mary Weiss has died, age 75. The queen of teenage dramas in the pre-Woodstock music world, she lay down this classic tale of love and loss at the age of 15.

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#mary weiss #the shangri-las #pop music #girl groups #obituary #Youtube

[undergroundrockpress]

The Shangri-Las performing with Kenny Laguna on keyboards, 1965.

#rock photography #The Shangri-Las #Kenny Laguna #1965 #1960s

[geminicollisionworks]

An appropriately sad farewell to Mary Weiss (right), primary voice of The Shangri-Las, a much beloved group.

They were the pinnacle of melodramatic teen pop tragedy songs, and while Shadow Morton was the writer and creator of their sound, it was Mary's voice that sold the stories.

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#mary weiss #the shangri-las #girl groups #teenage death songs #queens #Youtube

[the-birth-of-art]

Fare thee well to Mary Weiss, "the tough gal with the angelic voice".

#mary weiss #the shangri-las #shangri las #out in the streets #give him a great big kiss #when i say i'm in love you best believe i'm in love l-u-v #girl groups

[kdo-three]

Mary Weiss

Mary Weiss December 28, 1948 – January 19, 2024

American Singer | Lead Singer of The Shangri-Las

Mary Weiss, Lead Singer of the Shangri-Las, Dies at 75 - Pitchfork The pop singer was behind countless hits in the 1960s, including “Leader of the Pack”

Mary Weiss, Lead Singer of Sixties Girl Group The Shangri-Las, Dead at 75 - RollingStone Weiss vanished from the music industry for decades before returning in 2007 to release her first solo record

Mary Weiss, style-setting lead singer of the Shangri-Las, dies at 75 - Washington Post Ms. Weiss and The Shangri-Las brought a more street-smart twist with songs such as “Leader of the Pack”

Mary Weiss, lead singer for ‘Leader of the Pack’ girl group The Shangri-Las, dies at 75 - LA Times

Mary Weiss - Wikipedia

#Mary Weiss #The Shangri-Las #Girl Groups #Music History #Obituary

[ohhellno]

Heaven Only Knows…

RIP #MaryWeiss. Truly devastated. I can’t even put into words how much The Shangri-Las mean to me and Mary Weiss with that beautiful, haunting voice. She put out one hell of a solo album a few years back too. I hope she knew how much she was loved. Rest easy, Mary Weiss. “So wait right here and I will hurry

I’ll be back in the time it takes to break a heart” [The Shangri-Las - The train from Kansas City]. *

January 20th 2024

#mary weiss #the shangri las #shangri las #the shangri-las

[notsoterriblymisanthropic]

With anyone else but Mary Weiss as a lead singer, the doom in Shangri-Las songs might have turned into a joke, but it never happened: every time, whether in “Remember,” “Give Us Your Blessings,” “Out in the Streets,” “I Can Never Go Home Anymore,” or “Past, Present, and Future,” the singer was a different person, starting from the beginning, telling her story as far as it would go, which was never very far. Their songs, like Winehouse’s, were all locked doors, doors that locked you out or that you locked yourself from the inside.

Greil Marcus

#Greil Marcus #The Shangri-Las #Mary Weiss

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#the shangri-las #i can never go home anymore #music

[khiphop-discussions]

RIP to Mary Weiss of The Shangris-Las

#mary weiss #the shangri-las #off topic #Youtube

[lisamarie-vee]

#del shannon #wayne fontana and the mindbenders #the shangri-las #herman's hermits #1960s #vinyllove #rock and roll hall of fame

[one-album-wonders]

Northeast Regional - Group D

Today we move on to the Northeast Regional competition of the March Madness of American Rock Bands tournament. Vote for your favorite band! The top two vote recipients move on to the next round.

The Modern Lovers (Natick  MA)

Bon Jovi (Sayreville NJ)

Sonic Youth (New York NY)

The Shangri-Las (New York NY)

#The Modern Lovers #Bon Jovi #Sonic Youth #The Shangri-Las #rock #rock music #rock bands #rock and roll #american rock bands #greatest rock bands #tumblr polls

[werkboileddown]

#the shangri-las #past present future

[sinceileftyoublog]

Blondie Box Set Review: Against The Odds: 1974-1982

(UMe/Numero Group)

BY JORDAN MAINZER

At one point on Against The Odds: 1974-1982, the new Blondie compilation endorsed by the band itself, New York’s coolest cover a song by an L.A. band considered, in some circles, extremely uncool. It’s funny to hear the janky piano line from The Doors’ “Moonlight Drive” coming from a band containing the likes of Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, and Clem Burke, but considering the ramshackle nature of much of the new box set, it’s more fitting than you might initially think. (Okay, minus lacking Jim Morrison levels of pomposity.) Apart from remasters of Blondie’s first six studio albums, Against The Odds contains 52 session outtakes, demos, and B-sides, the majority of which were previously unreleased, and they show Blondie’s wide array of influences and their journey as a band. The set is essential listening for not just those unfamiliar with Blondie, but those who are familiar and have made their minds up based solely on the hits.

Against The Odds lays itself bare from the get-go. That is, if most box sets end with the greenest of demos catered to completist collectors after presenting the goodies, Against The Odds presents the projects in progress first, as is, necessary to understanding Blondie. It begins with a song that’s not even Blondie’s, a cover of the Shangri-Las’ “Out In The Streets” not released until 1994 on The Platinum Collection, with tremolo guitars from Stein, wiry bass from then-member Gary Valentine, and punky drum fills from Burke. "Out In The Streets” sets the stage for a bevy of shambling songs inspired by girl groups, doo wop, and surf rock, 50′s and 60′s music that on paper is the farthest cry from the sleek, synth-heavy new wave band that fills oldies radio stations today. Limber percussion drives “X-Offender” and “In The Sun”--Harry even shouts, “Surf’s up!” at the beginning of the latter--while handclaps and warbling keyboards buoy the swaying “Little Girl Lies” and “In The Flesh”. Richard Gottehrer, who spent the 60′s co-writing hits like The Angels’ “My Boyfriend’s Back”, produced Blondie’s 1976 self-titled debut and acted as a link between the eras of music, perhaps disparate in instrumentation but connected in lovelorn melancholy.

Against The Odds’ boldest moves center around Blondie’s best-known and most beloved song. “Heart of Glass” is a masterclass of disco, the perfect mix of live drums and drum machine, funky guitars and synths, and shimmery vocals from Harry. The incomplete versions presented here are notably inferior. “The Disco Song”, whose repeated verse is, “Once I had a love and it was a gas / Soon turned out to be a pain in the ass” almost seems like a joke, even with Harry’s incredible vocal control in her wailing. The band’s performance on Alan Betrock’s demo of “Once I Had A Love” is as sterile and jangly as the eventual version is smooth and sexy. Stein’s mix presented later on the album features the song’s recognizable panning percussion that worms its way into your ears from the get-go and echoing guitar plucks up and down the scale, but the isolation of those aspects knowing the final product is frustratingly toying to listen to. By the time the box set gets to the demos for eventual Parallel Lines producer Mike Chapman, the song is closer to the current version, and hearing the craft along the way only makes you appreciate anew a song you’ve heard a million times.

That those in the new wave scene of the 70′s accused Blondie of “selling out” by making a pure disco song in “Heart of Glass” is obviously utterly ridiculous to modern ears. Against The Odds shows a band that was unafraid, in the face of their peers’ purity, to incorporate elements of LGBTQ and Black music in their sound. They were known to cover “Lady Marmalade” and Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” at their shows, and “Spaghetti Song” is a propulsive, Summer-esque jam (basically “Atomic”) that graces the Eat to the Beat outtakes on here. Early on, the band burned through a funk-punk version of Ike & Tina Turner’s “Sexy Ida”. Later, they’d embrace reggae and rap, as evidenced by (an admittedly messy version of) “Die Young Stay Pretty” and their cover of The Paragons’ “The Tide Is High”, one of their biggest hits. The demo of the latter on Against The Odds is stunning, leaning heavier into reggae-inspired percussion than the eventual version and featuring lush strings from Walter Steding. 

And then there’s “Rapture”, purportedly the first number one single in the US to feature rapped vocals. Harry would be the first to tell you that said rapped vocals would have been better from the referenced Brooklyn MC Fab 5 Freddy (Fred Braithwaite) than from herself, but the song is nonetheless a high point in Blondie’s oeuvre, an inspired marriage of funk, new wave, disco, and rap. The disco version of “Rapture” included on Against The Odds sports tremendous cowbell and saxophone in the coda, while the original version “Yuletide Throwdown”, with vocals from Harry and Braithwaite added on later, eventually turns into a simmering krautrock jam with rippling synthesizers. That these two versions end so differently and both succeed speaks to the compositional and instrumental prowess of a band that only a few years prior was quite raw.

Ultimately, whether their bassy demos with Giorgio Moroder (“Live It Up”, “Angels On The Balcony”), soaring tunes for film soundtracks (“Call Me”, “Union City Blue”), or motorik home tape recordings (“War Child”, a “Ring of Fire” cover), at the center of all of Blondie’s collaborations and deep dives is a try anything spirit, a sort of punk exploration. We should be so lucky that their inquiring minds were documented. We should be even luckier they chose to reveal their work step by step.

#album review #blondie #ume #against the odds: 1974-1982 #numero group #universal music enterprises #universal music group #the doors #debbie harry #chris stein #clem burke #jim morrison #against the odds #shangri-las #the platinum collection #the shangri-las #gary valentine #richard gottehrer #the angels #alan betrock #parallel lines #mike chapman #donna summer #eat to the beat #ike & tina turner #ike turner #tina turner #the paragons #walter steding #fab 5 freddy

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The Shangri-Las - Remember (Walking in the Sand) (Stereo) George "Shadow" Morton from: "Remember (Walking in the Sand)" / "It's Easier to Cry" (Single) "Leader of the Pack" (LP) "The Shangri-Las: Myrmidons of Melodrama" (1995 CD Compilation)

Pop | Girl Group | Brill Building

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Personnel: The Shangri-Las: Mary Weiss: Lead Vocals Elizabeth “Betty” Weiss: Backing Vocals Marguerite “Marge” Ganser: Backing Vocals Mary Ann Ganser: Backing Vocals

Produced by Jeff Barry / Artie Ripp / "Shadow" Morton

Recorded: @ Mira Sound New York City, New York USA July, 1964

Released: August, 1964

Red Bird Records

#The Shangri-Las #Girl Group #1960's #Remember (Walking in the Sand) #Mary Weiss #Shadow Morton #Brill Building #Red Bird Records #Jeff Barry