Video – Twisted Sister – Leader of the Pack

Bad Career Move? Twisted Sister’s cover song of the Shangri-Las #1 hit from 1964, Leader of the Pack, was certainly one of the worst cover song/videos of the 80’s.

Check it out below.

The original version wasn’t much better…….

~ by Rob Rockitt on July 3, 2008.

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7 Responses to “Video – Twisted Sister – Leader of the Pack”

  1. I’ll give you that Twisted Sister’s cover was awful, but the Shangri-Las original is fantastic. This video from the Steve Allen show is silly (much like Elvis singing to the hound dog a few years earlier), but that was just the era. The Shangri-Las also recorded “Remember (Walking in the Sand)” which was later covered by Aerosmith.

    bob_vinyl said this on July 3, 2008 at 9:37 am | Reply

  2. Twisted Sister had been doing Leader Of The Pack since probably about 1980. If you can dig up their 1982 EP called rough Cuts you can hear their first studio version of the song. Back then, they really played up the irony that they were a bunch of big tough guys from Long Island singing a girl group song, and it was actually pretty funny. the problem was that when they resurrected the song for the come Out And Play album they played the whole thing too seriously and it was a big swing and a miss!

    Bob said this on July 3, 2008 at 11:19 am | Reply

  3. Never cared for the original or ‘Sister’s cover.

    jeremy (aka) SUPERMAN said this on July 3, 2008 at 11:45 am | Reply

  4. Interesting Bob. I didn’t know about that ‘EP. I would like to hear their earlier version of this.

    Rob Rockitt said this on July 3, 2008 at 12:20 pm | Reply

  5. Is this part of the “Sink Or Swim” saga?
    Gonna hafta sink this one….before someone’s ears get hurt! LOL

    Bic & Que said this on July 3, 2008 at 8:45 pm | Reply

  6. I just want to know what woman talked Twisted Sister into doing this track and convincing them this was a cool idea?

    eradio said this on July 5, 2008 at 8:55 am | Reply

  7. Hey Rob. I’d be happy to email you a copy of the original Twisted Sister version of leader of the Pack, as well as a live recording of the song from their early days. Is there somewhere I can send it to?

    Bob said this on July 7, 2008 at 11:36 am | Reply

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