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Brill Building (also known as Brill Building pop or the Brill Building sound) is a subgenre of pop music that took its name from the Brill Building in New York City, where numerous teams of professional songwriters penned material for girl groups and teen idols during the early 1960s.
- Late 1950s – early 1960s, New York City
- Guitar, strings
The Brill Building is an office building at 1619 Broadway on 49th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, just north of Times Square and further uptown from the historic musical Tin Pan Alley neighborhood.
- March 23, 2010
- 11
- 175,000 sq ft (16,300 m²)
Article. Brill Building at 1619 Broadway. The Brill Building isn't just an art deco structure in midtown Manhattan — it’s also the name of a musical genre. Throughout the early and mid-1960s, the “Brill Building sound” became synonymous with groundbreaking pop music.
Oct 23, 2023 · The Chiffons – One Fine Day. For the follow-up to their 1963 hit “He’s So Fine,” this New York four-piece girl group turned to Brill Building pop songwriters Gerry Goffin and Carole King ...
Located at 1619 Broadway in New York City, the Brill Building was the hub of professionally written rock and roll. As the 1960s equivalent of Tin Pan Alley, it reemphasized a specialized division of labour in which professional songwriters worked closely with producers and artists-and-repertoire.
- Reebee Garofalo
Carole King Klein [3] (born Carol Joan Klein; February 9, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has been active since 1958. One of the most successful female songwriters of the latter half of the 20th century in the US, she wrote or co-wrote 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100. [4] She also wrote 61 hits that charted in the ...
Dec 20, 2023 · The Brill Building Sound. As musical tastes changed after the war (cue rock ‘n’ roll!), Manhattan’s musical hub shifted several blocks north to the nondescript Brill Building at 1619 Broadway. A ’60s equivalent of Tin Pan Alley, the Brill Building sound became renowned for 1) advancing the craft of songwriting, 2) hiring youthful ...
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