“You Don’t Own Me”

Songs in Our Heart # 74

You Don’t Own Me (Ormsby Bros. version) (written by John Madara and David White; released 1973) [We think Leslie Gore’s original version (of a decade earlier) is good but a little too strident for our taste.  The cheerful, tousled-haired, antipodean answer to the Osmonds, The Ormsby Brothers, deliver a smoother, richer sound.  Whilst Australia suffered through the Young Talent Time syndrome – kids singing adult songs, some creepily inappropriate, this one is pretty harmless and tuneful – male singers striking a blow for Mens’ (Boys’) Lib!]