Led by a music industry veteran and historian who brings an insider's perspective to the golden age of the early 1960s pop music business ...

1997) takes a welcome look at Foster’s 20th-century successors: the songwriters who toiled in humble cubicles at the Brill Building (1619 Broadway) and nearby 1650 Broadway, the hubs of New York ...

For songwriters working in the old Tin Pan Alley ... songs like this one sung by the Chiffons and written by the Brill Building songwriting team of Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry were fading ...

Last April, Stereogum – an online indie music magazine — referred to Connie Francis as “a Jewish singer from New Jersey who came up working with Brill Building songwriters.” They got it ...