California Nights (Lesley Gore album)


California Nights is a 1967 album by Lesley Gore, the last of her seven albums released on the Mercury Records label. The title track on the album, California Nights, was Gore's last Top 20 hit. Bob Crewe produced seven of the tracks on the album, while Quincy Jones produced three. The album was reissued in 2015 as part of a compilation in both album and CD format by Ace Records, which included 15 bonus tracks from her Mercury catalogue.

Track listing

;Side A
  1. California Nights - 2:44
  2. Treat Me Like a Lady - 2:56
  3. Bad - 2:46
  4. I'm Going Out - 2:33
  5. Maybe Now - 2:21
;Side B
  1. Love Goes on Forever - 3:00
  2. Off and Running - 1:52
  3. Lilacs and Violets - 2:07
  4. The Bubble Broke - 2:56
  5. Cry Like a Baby - 2:13

    Compilation album

California Nights was released as a compilation album in both LP and CD format by Ace Records in May 2015 and in June 2015. It includes the reissue of the ten tracks from the original 1967 album, plus fifteen bonus tracks from Gore's Mercury catalogue. The bonus tracks include ten tracks from the 1965 album All About Love, which preceded California Nights, two tracks from the 1965 album My Town, My Guy & Me, and three tracks from the 5-CD box set It’s My Party, released in 1994.
Tracks 1 to 10 are from the original album California Nights, tracks 11 and 12 are from the album My Town, My Guy & Me, tracks 13 to 21 and 23 are from the album All About Love and tracks 22, 24 and 25 are from the It’s My Party box set.
;Tracks from CDCHD 1439
  1. California Nights - 2:44
  2. Treat Me Like a Lady - 2:56
  3. Bad - 2:46
  4. I'm Going Out - 2:33
  5. Maybe Now - 2:21
  6. Love Goes on Forever - 3:00
  7. Off and Running - 1:52
  8. Lilacs and Violets - 2:07
  9. The Bubble Broke - 2:56
  10. Cry Like a Baby - 2:13
  11. My Town, My Guy, and Me - 2:27
  12. Let Me Dream - 2:21
  13. Start the Party Again - 2:15
  14. I Won't Love You Anymore - 2:05
  15. I Just Can't Get Enough of You - 1:58
  16. To Know Him Is to Love Him - 2:29
  17. Will You Love Me Tomorrow? - 2:18
  18. Only Last Night - 2:35
  19. With Any Other Girl - 2:19
  20. I Can Tell - 2:22
  21. We Know We're in Love - 2:11
  22. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah - 2:06
  23. That's What I'll Do - 1:49
  24. Happiness Is Just Around the Corner - 2:16
  25. Hold Me Tight - 2:26