Bernadette Carroll - Party Girl - 1964

Here is the wonderful 1964 hit "Party Girl" by the lovely and talented Bernadette Carroll. The song reached #47 on the national Billboard Hot 100, but in some markets like Miami, it zoomed all the way to the top 10, peaking at #8.

The following biography is taken from her terrific website -
http://jerseygirlssing.com/index.html

Bernadette Carroll

In Linden, New Jersey in 1959, while attending Seoul Jr. High, Bernadette auditioned for Tom DeCillis, who was putting together a girl group. Bernadette joined with sisters Barbara and Jiggs Allbut and Lynda Malzone to form a group called The Starlets. Their first recording, on the Astro label, was P.S.-I Love You.

After The Starlets disbanded, Bernadette made her first solo recording for the Julia label, owned by Tom Decillis; that single was My Heart Stood Still. With Tom, she then joined with Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi of The Four Seasons to record at their studio for their company Vitomass Productions. Their master of the song Nicky, written by Massi and Bob Gaudio, was sold to Laurie Records and became Bernadette's first single for that label.

Bernadette's second Laurie single was Party Girl, which was produced and co-written by Ernie Maresca. That recording became a national hit.

Through this transition from group to single artist, the Allbut sisters and Bernadette continued doing work together for other artists as union background singers.

In 1968, Bernadette became the lead singer of The Angels and recorded four sides for RCA Records, including The Boy with the Green Eyes, which was written by Neil Diamond.

In the 60's, Bernadette teamed up with Denise Ferri and Peggy Santiglia to do lucrative back-up work for many major recording stars. These included Kitty Kallen, Connie Francis, Patty Duke, Bobby Hebb and Frankie Valli on his hits The Proud One, You're Ready Now and Cry For Me (which is featured in the hit musical Jersey Boys). Most notably the trio provided backing for Lou Christie's MGM recordings, including his #1 smash hit Lightning Strikes and the follow-up, Rhapsody In The Rain.

"Party Girl" lyrics


I made up my mind
What I'm gonna do
I'm gonna go out
And find somebody new

You ain't gonna do
What you did before
Cause I ain't gonna be
Around anymore

I wanna be a
Party, party girl
Have lots of fun
All around, around the world

I need a guy
Who would never lie
Tell me he's mine
Til the end of time
Party girl

She wants to be
A party, party girl

Have lots of fun
All around, around the world

I have cried once before
Now I'll cry, cry no more
Party girl

And it's Saturday night
And I'm having a ball
Dancing with the guys
At the old dance hall

Seems they all
Wanna dance with me
Now that they know
That I am free

I wanna be a
Party, party girl
Have lots of fun
All around, around the world

Staying up late
With a different date
Til the right guy
Comes my way
Party guy

I made up my mind
What I'm gonna do

I made up my mind
What I'm gonna do
I'm gonna go out
And find somebody new

You ain't gonna do
What you did before
Cause I ain't gonna be
Around anymore

I wanna be a
Party, party girl
Have lots of fun
All around, around the world

Find me a guy
Who would never lie....

Category:

Music

Tags:

• pop
• rock
• 1964
• Girl
• Group
• Sound
• Teen

[Snookiebutt]

Thanks for posting this.....I have the LP but nothing to play it on..one of my favorits....was wondering how Lesley Gore would have sounded like singing this:-) Thanks Boopkid

[boopkid]

Glad you enjoyed this. I am sure Lesley would have done a great cover of it. Thanks!

[kenslavin1961]

Love it, Sergio! I love the old Barbie dolls, too. Really nicely done. I'm embarrassed to say I never heard of Bernadette before - but now I'm glad to know about the song and her career, thanks to you! Best, Ken

[boopkid]

Thanks, Ken, glad you loved it; that's the whole purpose of my efforts is to bring wonderful artists from the past...FORWARD to others.

[LaVerne37]

Serg: Didn't the Four Seasons back Bernadette on the song "Nicky?" Great photos Serg...I guess if we had the Barbie at about :45 seconds we could pay our mortgages off!!! Great great gem Thanks so much for you background information 10*****

[boopkid]

Yes, two of the members did and a third cowrote the song, "Nicky". Thanks for your support!

[bluecatky]

Lindsay Lohan's theme song

[brentenireland]

@Snookiebutt You can buy record players with usb input these days.Wish I had bought one before I gave away my 200 records

[SAMSTRAY]

Love this girl...love this song. Who wrote it?

[Hottmeandu4200]

im cute

[jaemel1]

Love this song!

[denmanfit]

Peaked at #1 for two weeks and spent six weeks in the top ten on CFUN 1410 AM radio in Vancouver, BC in May 1964

[80sVideoLord]

no way !! ernie maresca - no way!! - THIS HAD JUST BECOME MY FAVORITE GIRL GROUP OLDIE LAST WEEK ... Now that I know ol' Mr Maresca is on the cut, it's too cool... Bernadette when I buy a time machine I'm gonna be knockin' on your door 40 years ago (ouch - did I say 40!?). too cute. It's so nice to be able to find 'new' oldies on youtube..it's far out ,daddy - o , like GONE!

[denmanfit]

This song reached # 1 on CFUN, Vancouver, BC - the Top 40 Radio station in town for the weeks of May 16 & 23, 1964. Had to listen to this on youtube cause it's not played much on oldies stations anymore.