The Shangri-las * Mary Weiss * Interview & Rare Footage

[@krististevens54322]

HER VOICE was legendary and one-of-a-kind. No one sounds even close!

[@backnineblues]

Mary died yesterday, January 19, 2024. I am very, very sad. Condolences to her sister, Elizabeth.

[@hagiospneuma23]

Sad --- she was awesome!!

[@robiny.4395]

How sad

[@dangelo1369]

RIP Mary Weiss (1948-2024)

[@jazzmanchgo]

Mary wasn't "just" a singer -- she was an actress. If she'd been around during the days of radio dramas, she'd have been an award-winner. Incredibly talented.

[@DeepScreenAnalysis]

She should have acted in soaps.

[@stewartfenton7660]

@@DeepScreenAnalysis thank god she didn't. Turning beauty into mundanity.

[@leahflower9924]

I always say Amy winehouse styling herself after people like her

[@squeakyandpepper6658]

@@leahflower9924I could see her doing rock genre like Jani Lane

[@leahflower9924]

@@squeakyandpepper6658 Shangri las influenced early new York punk rockers so yeah she could be a rockstar

[@san5sparkle]

yes, youtube is the best thing for music lovers of all ages.

[@marioiacolucci]

thank you are right!

[@kj104uk9]

"I had enough pain in me at the time to pull off anything...you can hear it on the performances, ...was so easy for me" then at 3.05 that beautiful smile. She certainly eases my pain. God bless you Mary.

[@TheRealDrJoey]

Walking In the Sand remains one the greatest records ever produced.

[@paulwilson9281]

Wall of sound

[@Daisnap]

I definitely agree. One of my top all-time favorite songs. It has everything.

[@moorlock2003]

The one and only Shangri-las. Greatest girl group of them all.

[@obibaddad1991]

I agree. 12 years after your comment.

[@donkeycat4010]

@@obibaddad1991 i also agree, 8 months after your comment

[@p.a.438]

@@donkeycat4010 I also agree, 3 months after your comment.

[@richardortiz8704]

2021

[@michelelaraia7358]

Queens,1963/8.Lucio Dalla covered in Italian,title:"L'ora di piangere"(Crying time,1966)

[@yadrak2354]

Amazing footage. Thank-you for sharing...there is something about 'being present in the moment' that you can really see in Mary Weiss and her performance. If you can find the clip of her singing leader of the pack with Robert Goulet doing a cameo on a motorcycle you will see it. She seems to live the song and makes you believe it.

[@englishsinger]

Mary is recording again and still sounds excellent! Because she started so young, she is still younger than Cher, Deborah Harry, Diana Ross etc. She can still rock!

[@SexyAngel79]

Holy crap.After all these years Mary still looks fantastic.I so loved her songs.I grew up listining to her music and so many of the songs my mother grew up with when she was a teenager.I so love the music from the 50's and 60's.If I had one wish I wish to go back in time of the 50's.All the great looking GREASERS,Dance to all the great music like The twist,My Boyfriends back,And of course Leader Of The Pack and many more.I'm 30 I keep telling my mom she gave birth to me the wrong year.Born 1979.

[@andrewr62]

The Shangri Las pre date me. I can remember hating their music as a youngster but fell in love with it as an adult. They were totally unique and talented. RIP Ganser twins. Continued happiness to Mary and Betty.

[@Shelley082157]

the lead singer has such an amazing voice...love that these were the visions of "tough girls" lol

[@teddytadd7457]

Remember, Walking in the Sand! i never get tired listing to this song! they sing and perform so great ! love this song ! they know how to keep perfect harmony! amazing what they can do!

[@lorirugato6463]

Thank you Shangri-la for coming to my father's Carvel in queen's NY 💕 💞 many years ago.

[@latenightfantasy]

The great Mary Weiss....so fabulous and like many of the girls I ran around with then.

[@RockoJerome]

RIP Mary Weiss

[@deep71483]

Underrated girl group

[@JSG1951]

thanks for posting this!!Great to see Mary,Shadow,Leiber,Stoller,Jeff and Ellie in this video.Mary seems to be very easy going and approachable.Love her new CD!!Glad she's finally back!!!

[@MrSkinnn]

Mid 60's time warp. This defined our lives when this came out. It was an amazing song for the time, sung by the right girl. Rarely do the stars come into perfect alignment, they did for this song. Mary, how does it feel knowing every guy alive back then worships you?

[@krististevens54322]

I only wish I lived back in the 60s!

[@daftfunk]

@@krististevens54322 Me too. Everything is so pure back then, Be it music or culture

[@KiMi-uh9hx]

R.I.P. Mary...a legend.

[@daveadams233]

R.I.P. Shadow Morton...2-16-13. Worked with Janis Ian and others, most famously with Shangri-las. Left us with classic recordings that captured teen angst of the early 1960s.

[@scottcarlson6246]

Damn these chicks were awesome.

[@AzhidaReminiec9999]

if they were given instruments to play as well..would the shangri las have made a great rock group?

[@teddytadd7457]

Shangri las are more than awsome when singing Remember, Walking in the Sand, so powerful with impact! man can they really pour out talent singing this song!

[@jamessilver6429]

@@AzhidaReminiec9999 beatles - beachboys level or maybe at least gerry and pacemakers zombies kinks ??

[@Horzinicla]

@@jamessilver6429 oh come on not the beatles or beach boys

[@jamessilver6429]

@@Horzinicla i was figuring out loud

[@ieddyeddy]

One of the greatest unplugged rock and roll bands of all time

[@sandraculter869]

I think Mary Weiss had a Mary Travers vibe going on. This band had such a unique sound with that cool sense of drama and urgency like Del Shannon songs had.

[@mckinneydermot]

Happy birthday to Mary, 28th December. thank you sooooooo much

[@zee_lolaj7382]

Rest in Peace Beautiful Mary💜💛

[@susiearviso3032]

Hi Mary. I was about 8 years old when your band was flying. I didn't even know it existed until I discovered it on You Tube afew years ago, as I checked out old bands. I bought a DVD of your band and i just love it. I blast it in my car, and when my grown kids tell me its corny, I tell them I don't care! lol Just know you are still making fans. Love and hugs to you and yours, Susie.

[@coyotesong]

wow, wow, wow...beautiful girls singing their hearts out and looking like they were havein an awful lot of fun. thank you for an awesome posting. i loved the old footage in the recording studio.

[@Kai0nTheMoon]

Mary was and is so gorgeous. I think she knew my father. They're from roughly the same part of town and his band was touring in the same circles during the same years. I think he would have certainly been a rock star. Unfortunately the Vietnam draft had different plans.

[@mistersmith1883]

I can't believe one of them died so young. So sad. I love their music. Great girl group.

[@bluewave7120]

Beautiful voice from a beautiful woman!

[@DURound]

2:05 Mary is so confident and cute... its amazing to think how young she was.

[@joeyracano1]

This was the root of my music, just listening to it again sends my soul soaring! Being from Ozone Park, I was there to hear them before they hit the big time, and my cousin was involved with the same music scene. His name was Ricky Racano, of Ricky and the Vacels. I will never forget how Mary made me swoon, listening as a young boy on my way to Rockaway Beach with my older sisters. There is a genre of music to which we all belonged, Northeast Tin Pan Alley blues/rocknroll and it re defined pop forever. I still adore this music, which is 1,000 times more important now in the digital world of pitch transposers and such. And Billy Joel played session for them as an unknown? Too much! Check out my music too-

[@Steel_music2024]

16 years ago, I was only 4 1/2 months old when this was posted

[@sanfranciscoprofessor2577]

Lana del Rey is trying for Mary Weiss's look, but Mary Weiss has the wounded look of a young Julie Christie. Mary bloomed twenty years too early. The Shangrilas were huge, okay, but MTV would have made Mary a solo superstar. I was a Shangrila fan yet today is the first time I ever saw a picture of Mary Weiss. You barely knew what singers looked like in sixty four, apart from a head shot on an album cover. I am amazed.

[@ginaisthequeen]

Is lana really trying to go for the Mary Weiss look or is that just upon your judgement? Just wondering because I find that really interesting :))

[@sanfranciscoprofessor2577]

Oh, I doubt she ever heard of Mary Weiss. I should have said, "the same kind of look."

[@kelimortongerrits163]

I don't know about Lana D R but I will tell U who was a huge fan of the Shandgrila's. Amy Winehouse. How do I know? Shadows my Dad. Also look for one of Amy's live version of Back to Black, she sings Remember in between her 'black'.

[@paulwilson9281]

Cant copy perfection

[@delsongalasinao706]

The shangrilas music is classic I'm a millenial but I'm obsessed to them.

[@tberrardy]

Brooklyn Fox Theater 1964, the Murray the K show, they were great! My older sister took me there.

[@mshockey73]

Very impressive! I love their sound. Too bad their singing careers were so short lived.

[@kananmeitei4163]

love it

[@OrlyFudd]

With all due respect to the late Jerry Leiber, one of my favorite lyricists of all time, this was no more "corny" than the hipster jive he wrote for The Coasters. As for Greg Shaw calling this "fake", there was NOTHING fake about this wonderful music. If you want fake images go listen to heavy metal. A very disrespectful and possibly sexist comment. I think Shadow Morton and Mary Weiss were close to musical geniuses and the Ganser twins were by far the most interesting background singers of any vocal group I can think of. And yeah they're cute as hell too.

[@100chuckjones]

+Rob Dobbins Nothing fake about Heavy Metal. I love Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Aerosmith, Deep Purple, even some of the 80's metal was great..but as a musician and a guy who loves to listen to and study music, The Shangri-Las were brilliant. the vocals, the music, it was a symphony. great music.

[@MichaelHattem]

+Rob Dobbins I didn't read it that way. I think Shaw was trying to say something about the combination of the rough image combined with the naive or innocent teenage worldview of the early 1960s. I don't think he meant any disrespect; he just chose a less-than-ideal word to describe what he meant.

[@faithfulchica1861]

Rob Dobbins thank you for this great comment!

[@whatball9411]

He also described them as 'tough sluts' and said they 'went out with leader of the pack type guys'. The stories they told in the songs may not have been entirely true to their life stories but that doesn't make any of them less of an artist. That rock critic has no fucking idea what he's talking about. He doesn't have a clue what actually went on in their lives, he's just spewing random ideas and it's obvious that he doesn't take them seriously.

[@DzaVideo]

This bashing of Greg Shaw has to stop. He wasn't implying the girls were sluts, he was merely reiterating what Mary states immediately afterwards - People try to put you in boxes, and The Shangri-Las' "image" was, incorrectly, that of "tough" girls. Even Greg says it wasn't true! But people just hear "Well, they were the tough sluts" then get triggered and don't even listen to anything else he says.

[@dimasarayan2327]

If they were talking bout the guy with the hat in the studio yeahh,I'd agree ,he is a timeless masterpiece producer!!! These girls were way ahead of time,breakin new grounds for timeless masterpieces!!! I love the shangrilas!!!

[@lastrada52]

Mary Weiss --incredible female rock singer. "Leader of the Pack" -- right up there with "Heartbreak Hotel" as a track that shook people up when released. Some say I'm crazy - if it's not true, why did many try to emulate & parody it. This group performed along side The Beatles & toured in '64 with The Stones. Heyday was 5 years & when the British Invasion was in full swing. Yet, they survived. No mean feat. Listen to their tunes today. Few sound dated. Angst that even Lou Reed could appreciate.

[@AzhidaReminiec9999]

the detergents recorded a parody of leader of the pack( leader of the laundromat)

[@raddmann336]

It was a very corny lyric but the sea gulls, the intensity of the vocals and the drama that only the Shangs could produce made it a classic.

[@doolindalton]

great band

[@bhodges00]

Mary your songs are what keeps me going all day. You are a beautiful woman.

[@antoniosarroca5108]

DAZZA B thank you for this litle interview with one of the greater voice ever Mary Weiss at the golden years of the pop music of the 60 so much feeling to sing out with so much love love it still thinking she is the only one of The Shangri-las no one is like them I was 17 a teenager in New York City oldies but good WABC radio local station now I'm oldman 73 but good listener really enjoy it all they music os Shangri-las for ever more .2019 love it .

[@wimnoe9486]

The good old times. They never come back. I miss the 50th and the 60th. I'm glad, that we have now KZbin.

[@tamarabradshaw4799]

Aside from Mary’s amazing singing voice, I can’t get over her strong resemblance to British model, Kate Moss. Someone once said the Shangri-Las created punk.

[@freddielamour1392]

Why haven't The Shangri-las been even considered for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?!?!?!

[@Batticia]

Very good group. I really love the song” walking in the sand”

[@KeithTheKing]

Mary is the queen of rock n roll! Long live Mary Weiss! Love it!

[@larryvermeer6170]

Good evening my friend I was born in 1955 I grow up with her music 🎶 to This is the best era of there time RIP mary This music 🎵🎶 today is garbage to Am still listening to this music in July of 2024 to

[@legendarymcdinis3391]

Rest in peace to all 4 now.

[@KiMi-uh9hx]

Elizabeth is still alive, she is the last one.

[@bennyadler5882]

Was not aware. Thank you for that info, she is seldom heard from it at all.

[@bans11]

So madly in love with Mary Weiss! even my 2 yrs old and 6 yrs old kids crazy 4 you! it's a routine in our house to sing "Give him a great big kiss" and "Right now , Not later Baby" with a matching dance step!

[@oogie11]

Mary Weiss has a wonderful voice.....the Shangri-Las are one of a kind

[@joaniejett7189]

I had such a crush on her in 64 wow they are fantastic!

[@royaljoneszone]

those red bird records, my treasures . i was a die hard fan of the trio sometime quartet. it wasn't meant to be . i went to turnstyle in so lawrence for walking in the rain by the ronettes ended up with walking in the sand by shangri-las ...then fell in love , lost an lp cover, had two lps disappear leaving me with the cover with the four drawings of the gals...i had such bad luck with their records. keepin them from breaking. ..listening now puts me in a trance. i could probably weep...those tough b's were my friends...watchin that lp go round...loved them. sad to hear the twins marge and maryann have passed...

[@keithhinchcliffe5629]

I still remember when I first saw a photo of them. I was shocked. Had heard them on the radio a hundred times, and always assumed they were black.

[@billbright1755]

Well there she is, let's ask her.

[@chuckdee121]

No two ways about it, that Mary Weiss has got to be one of the best singers of all time, and that includes Dinah Washington,Billy Holiday and Ronnie Spector. Aw hell, she's right up there with the best of them! God Bless Shadow Morton, one of the greatest artists ever!!!

[@brettinoloverromantico4095]

I listened to the Shangri-Las and Betty Jayne and The Teenettes all Summer 2022

[@mickeymousebiker1]

One of the best from the 60s.

[@graceland9223]

Thank you Dazza b I love this .. Mary is so great..

[@kimicoocoo1959]

Amazing rare footage here.

[@jimmyo1123]

Rip mary

[@Johnr34231]

It was an absolutely great song; one of the best of the era.

[@happymoogman]

Gee, it sure was important for UMG to mute as much of the music in this video as possible. Try and grab every penny you can, Universal.

[@daveman5860]

Her sexy voice and such cute face. She's what you call a doll. I wish she would had been in films, 3000

[@DBMScorchy]

Yes, but she is also a great performer. She invests in it and it shows.

[@electrochubb]

cool performance,I always liked these songs,somebody oughta start writting 'em again.They stir *deep emotions*

[@jerrycartledgefx507]

Heaven only knows that l love you, Mary. Thank you for the unforgettable music for over 40 years. Please stay well. May I say again....I love you !!

[@dadooronron47]

Won my heart back then! Thoroughly enjoy today! South Oyster Bay Road Huh?

[@josephmazzotta8813]

I remember p.s. 182 Brooklyn NY 2 grade teacher mrs. Weinberg

[@erniecontreras1268]

I love these girls Mary I'm 53 and you still make me smile 🌹

[@wimnoe9486]

How old is Marry Weiss now ?

[@richardroberts3719]

Love you Mary !

[@fafnj]

Mary you are GREAT!!!!

[@m6cold3st86]

Loved these girls ever since I first saw them on T of T Pops

[@markonline1662]

When they were topping the charts, I was born. But, what beautiful girls from Queens? They are the sexiest.

[@sporting06]

the best white girl group to come out of the east coast.Thank you George "shadow" Morton.

[@Daniel_Antonio_Arellano782]

This girls were hard working girls. That blonde guy didn't know what he was talking about! They deserve their props.

[@DzaVideo]

Listen again to the point he was making without getting triggered by the "tough sluts" comment. What he said is absolutely correct.

[@bencheshire]

Enough compression artifacts to start a museum but thanks for posting, great to hear from Mary and Shadow on this strange track.

[@unocarb]

OMG.. I have had a crush on Mary since the band. . I guess I was the fan boy of the 1960s for these chicks..

[@siyacer]

Lol

[@maryrawson4324]

Love this..

[@mollkatless]

@Dazza B - great sound mix, you do outstanding work, dummy

[@billbright1755]

They were all so lovely.

[@gadbazri]

Bro you are the best you making videos 2006

[@donrocin]

Theres some legends in this footage Mary Weiss, Shadow Morton, Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller and the co-writers (disputed) of Leader Of The Pack: Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich who sadly passed away this week.

[@ravenlunatic7909]

her and RONNIE my favs!

[@MW-eg4gu]

Lolita comes to mind. God bless her!

[@kimberlyj.sullivan9304]

Mary Weiss, herself, met my ex husband when he was a young teenager. She developed a slight crush on him and he was quite smitten by her attention but he was too young. That occasion was the inspiration to the Shangri-las song, "The Boy."

[@tomcarl8021]

Where and how did they meet, Kimberly? I'm really curious.

[@lucasbrilhante1836]

Surprised that this is tik tok trend song that was everywhere a couple of months ago. The original version by them is way better.

[@Reaper-cw4md]

She was cute and a great singer🎈

[@michaelquarry6187]

I thought Mary was a beautiful fantastic girl. I had a little crush on her. She really shown feelings in the Leader of the Pack. The other girls were cute to.

[@RonRock1967]

Something is wrong with this video. It keeps going silent every time it cuts to the black and white footage!

[@DzaVideo]

Leader of the Pack has been removed due to a copyright claim by the music publishers.

[@paulpinball9952]

@@DzaVideo: Yeah, you can ask The Detergents about Jeff & Ellie on "Leader of the Laundromat."

[@DannyM.D.N.A]

I love the devastating drama of girls in love back then, the humble , honest , real I’ll die for you love of them days! Where as now they’re all like yh whatever I don’t need you . Hence why no one loves no more

[@deanadiedrich9304]

WOW MARY LOOKS GREAT!

[@tokenblakguy7268]

Still sexy af.

[@Soapking1965]

This was from the A&E documentary from 2001 about the Brill Building songwriters (Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield, et. al.

[@ChristopherYoumans]

The roots of Amy Winehouse! Does anyone know the title of this documentary?

[@Grumburble]

I've got this footage in a DVD entitled 'The Songmakers Collection'. If you want stories behind the writing and production of big hits which emerged from the Brill Building and another in Broadway, you'll love this.

[@deplopcinema]

amazing. legends.

[@jessecuster5877]

Wish they still made women like that ❤️