You Don't Own Me

Summary

"You Don't Own Me" is a pop song written by Philadelphia songwriters John Madara and David White and recorded by Lesley Gore in 1963, when she was 17 years old. The song was Gore's second most successful recording and her last top-ten single. Gore herself considered it to be her signature song claiming, "I just can't find anything stronger to be honest with you, it's a song that just grows every time you do it."