Shangri-Las-65!
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{{Infobox album
| name = Shangri-Las-65!
| image = Shangri-Las-65!.jpg
| type = studio
| artist = the Shangri-Las
| released = September 1965
| recorded = 1965
| genre = Pop{{Cite magazine |title=Album Reviews – Pop Best Bets |magazine=Cash Box |date=October 2, 1965 |page=30 |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/60s/1965/CB-1965-10-02.pdf}}{{Cite magazine |title=Album Reviews |magazine=Billboard |date=October 16, 1965 |page=80 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JSkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT1}}
| label = Red Bird
| producer =
- Shadow Morton
- Jeff Barry
- Robert Bateman
- Ronald Moseley
| prev_title = Leader of the Pack
| prev_year = 1965
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Shangri-Las-65!
| type = studio
| single1 = Out in the Streets
| single1date = March 1965
| single2 = Give Us Your Blessings
| single2date = May 1965
| single3 = Right Now and Not later
| single3date = August 1965
| single4 = I Can Never Go Home Anymore
| single4date = October 1965
}}
}}
Shangri-Las-65! is the second album by the Shangri-Las. Released in September 1965 by Red Bird Records, it serves as the follow-up album to Leader of the Pack, which was released earlier in the year. Shangri-Las-65! was reissued and re-titled as I Can Never Go Home Anymore later in the same year, with the song "I Can Never Go Home Anymore" added to the album after it became a hit single.
Content and reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{Cite web |last=Planer |first=Lindsay |title=Shangri-Las-65! – The Shangri-Las – Review |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/shangri-las-65-mw0000817211#review |website=AllMusic}}
| rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
| rev2Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite book |last=Larkin |first=Colin |author-link=Colin Larkin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |year=2011 |page=1741 |publisher=Omnibus Press |edition=5th |isbn=978-0-85712-595-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NNmFiUnSmUC&dq=The+Shangri-Las+Shangri-Las-65!&pg=RA3-PA1741}}
}}
= Releases and singles =
The original pressing of the album contains the singles "Out in the Streets", "Give Us Your Blessings" and "Right Now and Not Later". The second pressing includes the hit single "I Can Never Go Home Anymore", and excludes the album track "The Dum Dum Ditty". The second pressing was later repackaged and re-released as I Can Never Go Home Anymore.{{Cite web |last=Viglione |first=Joe |title=I Can Never Go Home Anymore – The Shangri-Las – Review |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/i-can-never-go-home-anymore-mw0000846029#review |website=AllMusic}}{{Cite book |last=Santelli |first=Robert |title=Sixties Rock: A Listener's Guide |page=61 |date=1985 |url=https://archive.org/details/sixtiesrockliste00sant/page/61/mode/1up?view=theater |publisher=Contemporary Books |location=Chicago |isbn=0-8092-5439-5}}
= Other songs =
"The Dum Dum Ditty" and "Sophisticated Boom Boom" had been released first as a single by another American female band, the Goodies, also in 1965, but failed to chart.{{Cite web |last=Thompson |first=Dave |title=The Dum Dum Ditty – The Shangri-Las – Review |url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/the-dum-dum-ditty-mt0011675318#review |website=AllMusic |author-link=Dave Thompson (author)}}{{cite web |url=http://www.redbirdent.com/slas3.htm |title=Out In The Streets: The Story of the Shangri-Las |last=Grecco |first=John C. |date=2002 |publisher=Red Bird Entertainment |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130201035728/http://www.redbirdent.com/slas3.htm |archive-date=February 1, 2013 |url-status=dead}} In retrospective reviews, AllMusic called the Shangri-Las version of "Sophisticated Boom Boom" a classic and highlighted its wry humor, "the freakout scat solo" and "the funky James Brown groove" that permeates the track.{{Cite web |last=Mason |first=Stewart |title=Sophisticated Boom Boom – The Shangri-Las – Review |url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/sophisticated-boom-boom-mt0011660037#review |website=AllMusic}}
Another of the album's songs, "What's a Girl Supposed to Do?", had also been released previously by another artist, Lesley Gore, in 1965. Dave Thompson compared the two versions in AllMusic: "whereas Gore recites the song with becoming innocence, the Shangri-Las sound, characteristically, somewhat raunchier – 'kiss him, hold him, hug him, love him'... and then a silence so suggestive that any further detail seems unnecessary."{{Cite web |last=Thompson |first=Dave |title=What's a Girl Supposed to Do? – The Shangri-Las – Review |url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/whats-a-girl-supposed-to-do--mt0035122573#review |website=AllMusic}}
Mary Ann Ganser sang the lead vocal on "I'm Blue",{{cite web |url=http://www.nortonrecords.com/maryweiss/04.html |title=Mary Weiss Interview |last1=Miller |first1=Billy |last2=Linna |first2=Miriam |date=March 28, 2006 |publisher=Norton Records |access-date=September 6, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927115404/http://www.nortonrecords.com/maryweiss/04.html |archive-date=September 27, 2011 |page=5 |url-status=dead |author-link1=Billy Miller (musician) |author-link2=Miriam Linna}} which is a cover of the Ikettes' 1961 hit song. AllMusic highlighted "the tight bluesy garage-rock feel of the performance, the understated organ that floats beneath the melody and the ghostly sax that plays call-and-response with the middle eight".{{Cite web |last=Thompson |first=Dave |title=I'm Blue – The Shangri-Las – Review |url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/im-blue-mt0034156803#review |website=AllMusic}}
"Heaven Only Knows" was the only Shangri-Las song that lead singer Mary Weiss recorded again, 42 years later, for her only solo album, Dangerous Game.{{Cite news |date=March 25, 2007 |title=Shangri-Las' Weiss, leader of a comeback |last=DeLuca |first=Dan |url=https://www.inquirer.com/philly/entertainment/20070325_Shangri-Las_Weiss__leader_of_a_comeback.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240412164837/https://www.inquirer.com/philly/entertainment/20070325_Shangri-Las_Weiss__leader_of_a_comeback.html |archive-date=April 12, 2024 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer}}
British musician Miki Berenyi named Shangri-Las-65! as one of her top 10 favorite albums: "I loved the album's mix of headstrong emotion ('Never Again'), melodrama ('The Train from Kansas City'), and cool banter ('Sophisticated Boom Boom')."{{Cite web |url=http://undertheradarmag.com/interviews/my_favorite_album_miki_berenyi_of_piroshka_on_the_shangri-las_shangri-las-6 |title=My Favorite Album: Miki Berenyi of Piroshka on The Shangri-Las' 'Shangri-Las-65!' |last=Berenyi |first=Miki |website=Under the Radar |date=March 20, 2020}} She added that "it was a great record for acting out," singing and dancing with a female schoolmate.
The song "Sophisticated Boom Boom" gave name to two female bands that were active in the early 1980s: a Scottish five piece and a Swiss trio.{{Cite news |last=English |first=Paul |date=October 12, 2024 |title=Band wouldn't play with me as pregnant singer |url=https://global.factiva.com/redir/default.aspx?P=sa&NS=16&AID=9UNI038300&an=DRECRD0020241012ekac0002s&drn=drn%3aarchive.newsarticle.DRECRD0020241012ekac0002s&cat=a&ep=ASI |url-access=subscription |work=Daily Record}}{{Cite web |title=Sophisticated Boom Boom |url=https://www.tapeterecords.de/artists/sophisticated-boom-boom |access-date=December 15, 2024 |website=Tapete Records}} It also gave name to a 2003 book by John Kelly and a 2013 compilation album of songs written or produced by Shadow Morton.{{cite news |last=Poster |first=Jem |title=Books – Review: Songs of experience |date=June 28, 2003 |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/jun/28/featuresreviews.guardianreview19}}{{cite web |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |title=Sophisticated Boom Boom: The Shadow Morton Story – Various Artists – Review |website=AllMusic |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/sophisticated-boom-boom-the-shadow-morton-story-mw0002545418#review |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine}}
Track listing
Side one
{{Track listing
| title1 = Right Now and Not Later
| length4 = 2:08
| length6 = 2:10
| title6 = Heaven Only Knows
| writer5 = Ike Turner
| title5 = I'm Blue
| length5 = 3:27
| writer4 = George Morton
| title4 = Sophisticated Boom Boom
| length1 = 2:38
| writer3 = Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry
| length3 = 2:12
| title3 = Give Us Your Blessings
| writer2 = Tony Michaels, Vinny Gormann, Robert Racano
| writer1 = Robert Bateman, Ronald Moseley, Kenny Hollon
| length2 = 2:20
| title2 = Never Again
| writer6 = Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry
}}
Side two (first pressing)
{{Track listing
| length7 = 3:04
| writer10 = Bobby Hart, Tommy Boyce, Larry Martire, Steve Venet
| writer12 = George Morton
| title12 = The Boy
| length12 = 2:20
| writer11 = Levon Helm
| title11 = You Cheated, You Lied
| length11 = 2:21
| length10 = 2:21
| writer7 = Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry
| title10 = The Dum Dum Ditty
| writer9 = Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry
| length9 = 2:20
| title9 = What's a Girl Supposed to Do?
| writer8 = Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry
| length8 = 2:44
| title8 = Out in the Streets
| title7 = The Train from Kansas City
}}
Side two (second pressing and I Can Never Go Home Anymore)
{{Track listing
| length7 = 3:11
| writer10 = Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry
| writer12 = George Morton
| title12 = The Boy
| length12 = 2:20
| writer11 = Levon Helm
| title11 = You Cheated, You Lied
| length11 = 2:21
| length10 = 2:20
| writer7 = George Morton
| title10 = What's a Girl Supposed to Do?
| writer9 = Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry
| length9 = 2:44
| title9 = Out in the Streets
| writer8 = Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry
| length8 = 3:04
| title8 = The Train from Kansas City
| title7 = I Can Never Go Home Anymore
}}
Personnel
= Shangri-Las =
- Mary Weiss – lead and backing vocals
- Betty Weiss – lead and backing vocals
- Mary Ann Ganser – lead and backing vocals
- Marguerite Ganser – backing vocals
= Additional personnel =
- George "Shadow" Morton – producer
- Jeff Barry – producer
- Robert Bateman – producer
- Ronald Moseley – producer
- Artie Butler – arranger
Charts
Albums
| class="wikitable"
|+ !Year !Title !Chart !Position |
| rowspan="6" |1965
| rowspan="3" |Shangri-Las-65! |— |
| US Cashbox Top 100 Albums
|103 |
| US Record World 100 Top Lp's
|108 |
| rowspan="3" |I Can Never Go Home Anymore
|US Billboard 200 |— |
| US Cashbox Top 100 Albums
|— |
| US Record World 100 Top Lp's
|— |
Singles
| class="wikitable"
!Year !Title !Chart !Position |
| rowspan="12" |1965
| rowspan="3" |"Out in the Streets" |53{{Cite AV media notes |last=Patrick |first=Mick |others=The Shangri-Las |title=Myrmidons of Melodrama |date=February 2002 |url=https://archive.org/details/cd_myrmidons-of-melodrama_shangrilas/page/n3/mode/1up?view=theater |publisher=RPM Records (United States) |type=album liner notes}} |
| US Cashbox Top 100
|73 |
| Canada R.P.M Top 40 & 5
|7 |
| rowspan="3" |"Give Us Your Blessings"
|US Billboard Hot 100 |
| US Cashbox Top 100
|33 |
| Canada R.P.M Top 40 & 5
|21 |
| rowspan="3" |"Right Now and Not Later"
|US Billboard Hot 100 |
| US Cashbox Top 100
|150 |
| Canada R.P.M Top 40 & 5
|— |
| rowspan="3" |"I Can Never Go Home Anymore"
|US Billboard Hot 100 |
| US Cashbox Top 100
|7 |
| Canada R.P.M Top 40 & 5
|2 |