tepista wrote:
Which of the following pairs was not a Brill Building songwriting team?
a) Barry Mann/Cynthia Well
b) Tommy Boyce/Boby Hart
c) Carole King/Gerry Goffin
d) Jeff Barry/Ben Raliegh
d
In the 1960s, Manhattan's Brill Building housed over a hundred music businesses, including producers and their writers. Jeff Barry was one, but he was teamed with his wife Ellie Greenwich.
We reach the parts other combos cannot reach
We beach the beachheads other armies cannot beach
We speak the tongues other mouths cannot speak
tepista wrote:Yes, "I'm a Believer" & "A Little Bit Me..." Neil also wrote "Red Red Wine" which hit #1 for UB40 in the 80s.
Gary Cherone (Extreme) recorded Van Halen III, which turned out to be their worst selling album.
So I was right about Gary Cherone. I hate that I knew that.
I remember my buddy Jason used to record story notes and ideas while stoned just to see what he came up with. One day he played his recorder around this time, and all it said was "Why…does Van Halen…continue to do this…to us…?"
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
tepista wrote:Yes, "I'm a Believer" & "A Little Bit Me..." Neil also wrote "Red Red Wine" which hit #1 for UB40 in the 80s.
Gary Cherone (Extreme) recorded Van Halen III, which turned out to be their worst selling album.
So I was right about Gary Cherone. I hate that I knew that.
I remember my buddy Jason used to record story notes and ideas while stoned just to see what he came up with. One day he played his recorder around this time, and all it said was "Why…does Van Halen…continue to do this…to us…?"
I imagine JennyB's husband went thru the greatest existential crisis this side of a post-war Parisian cafe.
"Grab some wood, bub.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
