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May 19, 2024 · Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. One of the iconic songwriting partnerships of the rock’n’roll era, as young men these two Jewish songwriters, who met in Los Angeles when both were just 17, used ...
May 11, 2024 · Some very fine songwriters came out of the Brill Building, including names you may well recognize: Neil Sedaka, Neal Diamond, Don Kirshner (famed producer of television music, including a ridiculously popular band he invented called “The Monkeys” and head of Dimension Records), and today’s songwriting team, songwriter Carole King and her ...
May 18, 2024 · Speaker B: It was written by young, married songwriters Carole King and Jerry Goffin, who were associated with the so called brill building wave of professional songwriters in midtown New York.
May 1, 2024 · He and DiPietro have also created a piece called Chasing the Song about the Brill Building songwriters of the early 1960s. “Broadway used to be my moonlighting job. Now I have two day jobs,” says Bryan, a married father of three. “That’s OK. It’s not a competition between the two for me. It’s music.
2 days ago · King, Bacharach, and Diamond all launched their respective careers as Brill Building songwriters. Other notable musicians with a Brill Building address were Paul Simon (as Jerry Landis), Laura Nyro, Tony Orlando, Barry Mann, Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, Doc Pomus, Phil Spector, Bobby Darin, Neil Sedaka, and Gene Pitney.
May 11, 2024 · The song was originally written by noted Brill Building songwriters Gerry Goffin and Carole King, and the song was released as the lead single from The Notorious Byrd Brothers. “Goin’ Back” was a source of conflict between David Crosby and the rest of the group due to it being penned by external songwriters and because it would replace ...
May 13, 2024 · In 1958 Sedaka and Greenfield signed a publishing contract with Don Kirshner and Al Nevins at Aldon Music, where they became known as the original creators of the “Brill Building” sound. Pop singer and actress Connie Francis was the first to cover a song written by the duo—“Stupid Cupid,” which reached number 17 on the Billboard ...
