underrated artists

Lesley Gore’s first album is definitely in my top 20 (and that’s a full list). It’s actually a jazz album in the style of the great divas. For me, she ranks alongside Billie Holiday and Etta James. She was only 17 when she recorded it, and it made her very rich. Ms. Gore was the most successful artist of the 1960s. But her true greatness was overlooked. She was just a little white girl from the suburbs, not the type to become a diva.