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The Songwriters Hall of Fame (SHOF) is an American institution founded in 1969 by songwriter Johnny Mercer, music publisher/songwriter Abe Olman, and publisher/executive Howie Richmond to honor those whose work, represent, and maintain, the heritage and legacy of a spectrum of the most beloved English language songs from the world's popular ...
Oct 23, 2023 · Paul McGuinness. Brill Building songwriters Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich - Photo: Don Paulsen/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. The Brill Building, at 1619 Broadway in New York City, gave...
They quickly became one of the most prolific and successful of the Brill Building songwriters, a group that included Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield, Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Gerry Goffin and Carole King.
Pomus was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer in 1992, the Songwriters Hall of Fame (1992), and the Blues Hall of Fame (2012). Born Jerome Solon Felder in 1925 in Brooklyn, New York, he was the son of Jewish immigrants.
Cynthia Weil (October 18, 1940 – June 1, 2023) was an American songwriter who wrote many songs together with her husband Barry Mann. Weil and Mann were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. [1]
Brill Building-era songwriting teams such as Gerry Goffin and Carole King, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, and Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman were to rock and roll what Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart and George and Ira Gershwin were to Tin Pan Alley.
Career- and string of hits - spanned from Brill Building in 1950s to LA in 70s. Phil Spector was a monumentally influential songwriter and producer whose “Wall of Sound” style revolutionized the way rock music was recorded in the early 1960's.
