604988116526

The Sound Of The Brill Building - All Brits Edition

Various Artists

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Format: CD

Cat No: JASCD1165

Release Date:  28 October 2022

Label:  Jasmine Records

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  604988116526

Genres:  Easy Listening  Pop-Rock  

  • Description

    The companion to three further Jasmine Brill Building compilations, this volume is an "All Brits Edition", and features household names like Billy Fury, Marty Wilde, Cliff Richard, Emile Ford, Joe Brown, Lonnie Donegan, Alma Cogan, Adam Faith, Helen Shapiro, Kenny Lynch and many more.

    The Brill Building is an 11-story Art Deco office block, at 1619 Broadway, Manhattan, where the songwriters who shaped 1950s and 60s R&R, R&B and Pop music wrote, demoed and published their songs.

    The 'First Team' comprised seven songwriting duos: Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller, Gerry Goffin & Carole King, Doc Pomus & Mort Shuman, Neil Sedaka & Howard Greenfield, Burt Bacharach & Hal David, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil, and Jeff Barry & Ellie Greenwich.

    Other significant Brill Building songwriters included Ben Raleigh, Jack Keller, Bob Hilliard, Phil Spector, Paul Evans, Hank Hunter, Helen Miller, Tony Powers, Larry Kolber, Paul Hampton, Mark Barkan, Bobby Darin, Rose Marie McCoy and others.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Marty Wilde - A Teenager In Love
      • 2. Jimmy Justice - Dawning
      • 3. Craig Douglas - When My Little Girl Is Smiling
      • 4. Emile Ford & The Checkmates - Counting Teardrops
      • 5. Billy Fury - A King For Tonight
      • 6. Joe Brown & The Bruvvers - It Only Took A Minute
      • 7. Lonnie Donegan - Lorelei
      • 8. Ricky Valance - Don't Play No.9
      • 9. John Leyton - Tell Laura I Love Her
      • 10. Carol Deene - On The Outside Looking In
      • 11. Alma Cogan - He Just Couldn't Resist Her With Her Pocket Transistor
      • 12. Julie Grant - Up On The Roof
      • 13. Penny - Who Does He Think He Is?
      • 14. The Delaine Sisters - It Might As Well Rain Until September
      • 15. The Viscounts - Who Put The Bomp
      • 16. Gary Mills - Footsteps
      • 17. Oliver Reed - Ecstasy
      • 18. The Brook Brothers - Warpaint
      • 19. Mark Wynter - Go Away Little Girl
      • 20. The Vernons Girls - The Locomotion
      • 21. Helen Shapiro - Tell Me What He Said
      • 22. Jackie Lee & The Raindrops - Will You Love Me Tomorrow
      • 23. Janice Peters - This Little Girl's Gone Rockin'
      • 24. Maureen Evans - Stupid Cupid
      • 25. Laura Lee - Tell Tommy I Miss Him
      • 26. Doug Sheldon - Play Me The Blues
      • 27. Peter Gordeno - Uptown
      • 28. Michael Holliday - The Story Of My Life
      • 29. Kenny Lynch - It Would Take A Miracle
      • 30. Grant Tracy & The Sunsets - Please Baby Please
      • 31. Duffy Power - Dream Lover
      • 32. Michael Cox - Too Hot To Handle
      • 33. Adam Faith - I'm A Man
      • 34. Cliff Richard & The Drifters - The Snake And The Bookworm