Pop Art and Popular Music by Melissa L. Mednicov

Author:Melissa L. Mednicov
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2018-07-30T16:00:00+00:00

3 Mercer and Shingler consider music to act not only as a marker of emotion, but also as “constituting a system of punctuation, heightening the expressive and emotional contrasts of the storyline. In such moments, music makes these films much more dramatic and, by the same token, less like real life.” Mercer and Shingler, Melodrama, 13.

4 Themes from Top 20 songs such as Lesley Gore’s “It’s My Party” (both US and UK June 1963), “Judy’s Turn to Cry” (US, August 1963), “She’s a Fool” (US, November 1963); The Shirelles’ “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” (US, January 1961 and UK, February 1961); Brenda Lee’s “Here Comes That Feeling” (UK June 1962); Maureen Evans’ “Like I Do” (UK January 1963); the Chiffons’ “He’s So Fine” (US March 1963, UK May 1963); and the Crystals’ “Then He Kissed Me” (US and UK in September 1963). The violence mentioned relates to the Crystals’ “He Hit Me It Felt Like a Kiss,” which upon its release in 1962 received some airplay, but does not enter the Top 20 charts according to McAleer. These are just a few examples, chosen from the years leading up to the making of Boty’s painting. Of course, there are boy band versions, best epitomized by the Four Seasons’ “Big Girls Don’t Cry” (entering the charts in the US in November 1962 and in the UK in February 1963). Dusty Springfield had her first Top 20 hit in Britain in November 1963 with “I Only Want to Be With You.” See Dave McAleer, The Book of Hit Singles: Top 20 Charts from 1954 to the Present Day (San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2001) for chart positions.

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