We follow up our recent release of Lesley Gore's "Magic Colors - The Lost Album" with this expanded reissue of her fourth LP "Girl Talk", recorded in 1964 with producer Quincy Jones. The album's original liner notes mourn the influx of "twanging guitars, psychedelic sounds and moaning voices" and hail Lesley for "singing in tune" and "pronouncing the lyrics of a song so they are understandable"; the USA was smack in the midst of Beatlemania at the time. Lesley Gore, like so many American artists navigating the music scene, had to contend with the British Invasion, but she managed to weather the changing climate and remain in the Top 20 from 'It's My Party' in 1963 through to 'California Nights' in '67. In addition to the 12 titles on the original album, our CD includes 13 hand-picked bonus tracks from the same timeframe, including three recorded in Hollywood with arranger Jack Nitzsche, and four others which first surfaced from the Mercury tape vaults in 1994.