Goffin and King: a Gerry Goffin and Carole King Song Collection 1961-1967
Ridenbaugh Press (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Turkey on the roof/Linda Watkins When this old world starts getting me down And people are just too much for me to face I climb way up to the top of the stairs And all my cares just drift right into space - The Drifters (Gerry Goffin/Carole King) Picture by Linda Watkins, taken in the hills north of Sheridan, Oregon.
Can't Stop the Bleeding (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
With (my) apologies to Gerry Goffin and Carole King for the above headline, Isiah Thomas tells SI.com’s Ian Thomsen he’s dismayed by Magic Johnson’s comments in the newly published “When The Game Was Ours”, a book co-authored by Magic, Larry Bird and former Boston Globe scribe Jackie MacMullan. In the tome, Johnson describes his [...]
Music Is Art (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
I often think about this picture of Rihanna and of the way she was beaten. It looks so painful that you can understand what she must have gone through to get there. It always blows me away when others say they can’t imagine how it is to have been abused when most get abused [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin .
Aria (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Singer Jody Watley reboots her now-classic album, The Makeover – to exquisite effect! The new album is an update – re-sequenced with several new additions, and some remixed or remade originals. The album is newly packaged with gorgeous cover art photography by Mike Ruiz. Last time, Watley created a uniquely sublime dance album that was – at once – vintage and vanguard; she reinterpreted...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
Rhino's latest Nuggets set offers a comprehensive look at the mid-'60s music scene.
The Late Greats (Free subscription) | 18/09/2009
James Maddock writes pop songs. Not the type you hear on Pop radio though. These are old school pop songs a la Carole King and Gerry Goffin. His new album “Sunrise On Avenue C” is twelve stellar pop songs. (Late Greats fave Leslie Mendelson plays on the album, too!) The song below is one of the best I have heard all year. Listen: James Maddock ∞ When The Suns Out More: Randomness...
The AIR Users Blog :: The Number 1 Source for AIR... (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Lists. Our industry is full of them; Equipment lists Set lists Song lists Client lists Plug-in lists Feature Patch lists and of course wish lists... Did you see what I did there? A list of lists. Some of our lists are sanity, the keep us on track, they make sure we're staying on track, on budget, on idea. Other lists are more about vanity, look who I've worked with or what I've got. The trouble is...
AskMen.com (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
Who really wrote "Twist and Shout"?
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 03/09/2009
Born: 23 October, 1940, in New York. Died: 26 August, 2009, in New York, aged 68.ELLIE Greenwich was a songwriter who collaborated with Phil Spector, Jeff Barry and others to create a greatest-hits list of 1960s teenage pop songs including such classics as Da Doo Ron Ron, Then He Kissed Me, Hanky Panky and Leader of the Pack.Greenwich was among the songwriters, music publishers and producers working...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 03/09/2009
Born: 23 October, 1940, in New York. Died: 26 August, 2009, in New York, aged 68.ELLIE Greenwich was a songwriter who collaborated with Phil Spector, Jeff Barry and others to create a greatest-hits list of 1960s teenage pop songs including such classics as Da Doo Ron Ron, Then He Kissed Me, Hanky Panky and Leader of the Pack.Greenwich was among the songwriters, music publishers and producers working...
distributorcap NY (Free subscription) | 29/08/2009
With the passing of one of pop music's most prolific and influential song writers this week - Ellie Greenwich - I was reminded of a building I have walked past countless times - a building that was the heart and soul of the 1960's music world - the Brill Building in Midtown Manhattan Built in 1931, the Brill Building is located at 1619 Broadway, at the corner of 50th St. It is a couple of blocks north...
McIlWeb (Free subscription) | 28/08/2009
1 - John Lennon & Paul McCartney 2 - Bob Dylan 3 - Chuck Berry 4 - Carole King & Gerry Goffin 5 - Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller 6 - Smokey Robinson 7 - Brian Wilson 8 - Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier & Eddie Holland 9 - Paul Simon 10 - George Harrison
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 27/08/2009
She changed the shape of 60s pop by writing some extraordinary songs, including Be My Baby and Da Doo Ron Ron Ask anybody to name a great songwriter from the 60s, and they will namecheck the lyrics of Lennon, the melodies of McCartney, or the studio mastery of Spector. Few will plump for Ellie Greenwich, the blonde-haired, bright-eyed New Yorker who co-wrote some of the decade's most extraordinary...
The Age (Free subscription) | 27/08/2009
Ellie Greenwich, the songwriter behind a string of 1960s hits including Da Doo Ron Ron , Chapel of Love and Be My Baby , has died of a heart attack aged 68.
wears the trousers magazine (Free subscription) | 27/08/2009
Heart attack claims life of 1960s songwriting icon Much loved and immensely talented music legend Ellie Greenwich has passed away at the age of 68 after suffering a heart attack at a New York hospital where she had been admitted a few days previously for pneumonia. Born in 1940, the Brooklyn, New York native wrote and recorded [...]
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