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	BRILL BUILDING : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It became the centre of the early '60s Brill Building sound, which actually began across the street at Aldon Music.
		The Brill Building as a genre came to encompass Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, Bert Berns, Leiber and Stoller, Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
		The next act in pop music was the emergence of the Beatles, who wrote their own material; soon anybody could be a songwriter, which meant that the craft of songwriting began to wither.
	www.musicweb-international.com /encyclopaedia/b/B248.HTM (313 words)

	Brill Building - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Brill Building (1930-) in the United States is located at 1619 Broadway, in New York City, New York, just north of Times Square.
		Carole King described the atmosphere at the Brill Building: "Every day we squeezed into our respective cubby holes with just enough room for a piano, a bench, and maybe a chair for the lyricist if you were lucky.
		The pressure in the Brill Building was really terrific - because Donny (Kirshner) would play one songwriter against another.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brill_Building (208 words)

	The Brill Building (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Brill Building, located at 1619 Broadway in the heart of New York's music district, is a name synonymous with an approach to songwriting that changed the course of music.
		The Brill Building (named after the Brill Brothers whose clothing store was first located in the street level corner and would later buy it), was at 1619 Broadway.
		The Brill Building in the early '60s was a classic model of vertical integration.
	www.history-of-rock.com /brill_building.htm (236 words)

	The Beatles, The Brill Building, And The Persistence Of Tin Pan Alley In The Age Of Rock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is the Brill Building sound that undergirds the entire canon of Phil Spector's Wall of Sound revolution in recording and it is the Brill Building sound that the Beatles sought to emulate in many of their songs.
		Technically, one could probably say there are two dimensions to the Brill Building sound: one dimension is the actual structure (melodic, harmonic, lyric) of the songs; the other dimension has to do more with the recording practices and a particular type of studio sound that seemed to accompany the music.
		Brill Building writers, there really is not another group of songwriters with perhaps the exception of Holland, Dozier, and Holland and some others at Motown-who were doing as much with harmony as the Beatles.
	www.boyceandhart.com /lyric/thebeatles.htm (4262 words)

	The 5th Avenue Theatre - The Brill Building
		The Brill Building, located in the heart of New York's music district, is a name synonymous with an approach to songwriting that changed the course of music.
		The Brill Building sound came from the stretch along Broadway between 49th and 53rd streets.
		The Brill Building in the late '50s and early '60s was a classic model of vertical integration; it was a "music factory." If you wrote a song, you could make the rounds of publishers until someone bought it.
	www.5thavenuetheatre.org /archive/sjc_brill-building.shtml (350 words)

	Encyclopedia: Brill Building (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture.
		Famous Brill Building individual songwriters include: Carole King (born February 9, 1942) is an American singer and songwriter, most active as a singer during the early to mid 1970s, but a successful songwriter for considerably longer both before and after this period.
		Neil Sedaka 2005 Neil Sedaka (born March 13, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American Brill Building pop singer, songwriter and pianist.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Brill-Building (910 words)

	Brill Building Pop Downloads - Download Brill Building Pop Music - Download Brill Building Pop MP3s
		Brill Building Pop applied the concept of professional songwriters in traditional pop to rock & roll.
		Numerous teams of professional songwriters worked at the Brill Building -- a block of music publishing houses in New York City -- writing songs for artists as diverse as the Coasters, the Drifters, the Shangri-Las, the Ronettes, Neil Sedaka, and...
		Numerous teams of professional songwriters worked at the Brill Building -- a block of music publishing houses in New York City -- writing songs for artists as diverse as the Coasters, the Drifters, the Shangri-Las, the Ronettes, Neil Sedaka, and Connie Francis.
	www.mp3.com /genre/396/subgenre.html (3550 words)

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		The Brill Building kids were writing songs for other kids.
		Anyway, the Brill Building hit parade included "Walk on By, Do Wah Diddy Diddy, Stand By Me, Save the Last Dance for Me, Hey Girl, One Fine Day, Do You Know the Way to San Jose, Da Doo Ron Ron, Be My Baby" and of course, Beach Ball.
		Ultimately, the Brill Building's "da doo ron ron" was undone by Dylan, Lennon, McCartney, et.
	reveries.com /cool_news/2005/october/oct_21a.html (205 words)

	The Brill Building -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Located at 1619 Broadway in New York City, the Brill Building was the hub of professionally written rock and roll.
		As time passed and they learned more about building materials and methods, humans began to construct first huts, then castles and cathedrals, and ultimately skyscrapers and factories.
		The building of the Pyramids had an enormous impact on the economy of ancient Egypt.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9106233?tocId=9106233 (779 words)

	The Brill Building - Nostalgia Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sedaka was one of a close-knit group of songwriters and performers whose work was becoming known as Brill Building Pop, after the building at 1619 Broadway, New York, where many music publishers had offices.
		This new Tin Pan Alley could be located more precisely because in effect, the Brill Building had become a production line for quality pop music, much of it under the guidance of one man, Don Kirshner.
		Describing conditions in the Brill Building, Mann revealed "Cynthia and I work in a tiny cubicle, with just a piano and a chair, no window.
	www.nostalgiacentral.com /music/brill.htm (509 words)

	Stephinsources: Fling them from the top of the Brill Building
		The Brill Building, referenced in "Epitaph for My Heart," was a one-stop pop song factory, located at 1619 Broadway in New York City.
		In the building during its heyday, in the late 50s and early 60s, you could obtain a freshly written song, have it arranged, assemble studio musicians and singers, record a demo, and then try to sell it to various record companies, all without stepping outside.
		Including the Bacharach/David duo (featured last week), the Brill Building was associated with several prominent songwriting teams, among them Carole King/Gerry Goffin, Jeff Barry/Ellie Greenwich, and Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil.
	stephinsources.blogspot.com /2005/08/fling-them-from-top-of-brill-building.html (693 words)

	The Jewish Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The songs that flowed from the Brill Building, and from the hearts and minds of a bunch of Brooklyn Jewish kids, defined an era in pop music.
		But the music known as “Brill Building pop,” whose heights were reached between 1958 and 1964, was composed in and around the building, including 1650 Broadway.
		Several miles south of the Brill Building, a young Jewish folk singer was singing in a Greenwich Village Club introducing a new kind of song bursting with social issues and protest.
	www.thejewishweek.com /bottom/specialcontent.php3?artid=165&print=yes (2441 words)

	Spectropop's Brill Building Page.
		With partner/husband Gerry Goffin, she formed one of the most successful songwriting teams of all-time, and their works defined the "girl group" sound.
		Spectropop presents one of the most beloved songwriting duos of the Brill Building, the husband/wife team of Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich.
		Spectropop presents a website dedicated to the classic songs of composer Barry Mann and lyricist Cynthia Weil; in the history of the Brill Building, the story of Mann and Weil is an essential chapter.
	www.spectropop.com /hbrill.html (991 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Brill Building
		The Brill Building, located at 1619 Broadway in New York City,; was the center of Tin Pan Alley, New York's songwriting and music publishing industry during the 1920s and 1930s.
		Although changes in the music industry ended the Tin Pan Alley era by 1945, in the late 1950s the Brill Building again emerged as the center of professional songwriting and music publishing when a number of companies gathered there to cater to the new rock and roll market.
		In the process, they created what has become known as the "Brill Building Sound," a marriage of finely crafted, professional songwriting in the best Tin Pan Alley tradition with the youthful urgency and drive of rock and roll.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100195 (690 words)

	brill building (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Built in 1931 and originally a clothing store, the Brill Building at 1619 Broadway NYC became, through economic imperative, the rented home of a huge number of music publishers, numbering 165 at it's height in 1962.
		The most important of these was Aldon Music, founded in 1958 and run by Don Kirschner and Al Nevins, which at various times during the late 1950's to mid-1960's employed some of the finest songwriters in the history of popular music, almost always writing in pairs.
		Acting like a vertical (and vertically integrated) Tin Pan Alley, the Brill Building production line churned out high quality teen and "classic" pop until the mid 1960's, when, prompted by the Vietnam War and social unrest, the market changed in favour of the protest song and the singer-songwriter.
	www.shrout.co.uk /brill.html (160 words)

	Carole King settles into her 'Living Room' tour
		King came up in the legendary Brill Building school of songwriting in Manhattan, where she was paired with high-school sweetheart Goffin.
		The Brill Building, at 1619 Broadway in New York City, was for many years the hub of professionally written rock 'n' roll.
		What Tin Pan Alley was to stages in the '30s, the Brill Building was to radio in the '60s.
	www.suntimes.com /output/music/sho-sunday-carole03.html (1162 words)

	KMA Music
		The Tin Pan Alley era (1930-1955) flourished at the Brill Building, but in the mid-fifties the action moved over to 1650 Broadway, which unlike the Brill Building was an edifice without a name, just a number.
		The building was erected in 1922, when musicians were relegated to using the side door.
		In contrast to the relative seediness of the Brill Building neighborhood, 1650 was on the perimeter of the theater-hotel district.
	www.kmamusic.com /1650text.html (1137 words)

	Pop-Culture Spectrum: Brill Building (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The results are a series of articles called Brill Building.
		The title is inspired by the famous New York City historically musical building of the same name that was the "house" of many famous song writers.
		BRILL BUILDING #1 - The Kinks' "Waterloo Sunset"
	www.popculturespectrum.com /brill.html (124 words)

	FORWARD : FastForward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		But to fans of post-Elvis, pre-Beatles pop music, the Brill Building is a temple — in more ways than one.
		From the late 1950s through the early 1960s, the Brill Building (and its lesser-known cousin across the street at 1650) housed publishing companies that employed the era's best-known songwriters.
		Although you don't have to be Jewish to appreciate Brill Building tunes, the Forward was not surprised to learn that one of the event's promoters, Jeanne Stallman, is Jewish.
	www.forward.com /issues/2001/01.01.19/fast2.html (381 words)

	Telarc International:
		Siegel not only pays homage to the legendary Brill Building—a veritable hit factory and the heart of New York’s pop songwriting industry from the late 1950s through the mid 1960s—but also expands the concept by spotlighting jazz songs made famous by women.
		The nine-time Grammy winner (and seventeen-time Grammy nominee) actually wrote and recorded in the Brill Building very early in her career.
		I Wish You Love is a personal triumph that brings her career full circle from singing at age twelve with The Young Generation, an all-girl trio that recorded for Red Bird Records headquartered in the Brill Building.
	www.telarc.com /gscripts/title.asp?gsku=3551&mscssid=B7C418JG6LSR2P270G05AFURQ6GC81BB (655 words)

	Brill's Mutual Funds Interactive(R)
		Many no-load funds are also available though discount brokerage firm mutual fund supermarkets.
		But David Nicholas, manager of the Nicholas Limited Edition Fund, contends that as the economic recovery matures investors will once give the nod to small growth companies.
		Learn about how to get started investing in mutual funds, how to save for college or retirement, and other investing and financial planning topics at Funds 101.
	www.brill.com (422 words)

	Trip to New York City
		Next, we stopped at The Brill Building, located at 1619 Broadway in the heart of New York's music district, is a name synonymous with an approach to songwriting that changed the course of music.
		It is the centerpiece and probably best known building and the 70-story building still towers over its modern competitors.
		After that, it was over tolook at the Empire State Building and then a short walk to Grand Central to catch the train for my favorite free ocean voyage -- a trip on the Staten Island Ferry with great views of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and the Battery.
	www.jitterbuzz.com /nyctrip.html (1367 words)

	Brill Building -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Brill Building -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The pressure in the Brill Building was really terrific - because (Click link for more info and facts about Donny (Kirshner)) Donny (Kirshner) would play one songwriter against another.
		He'd say: 'We need a new smash hit' - and we'd all go back and write a song and the next day we'd each audition for (Click link for more info and facts about Bobby Vee) Bobby Vee's producer." - quoted in The Sociology of Rock by Simon Frith (1978, ISBN 0094602204).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/br/brill_building.htm (525 words)

	Amazon.com: Brill Building Legends [IMPORT]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In concept, this disc (along with its companion volumes focusing on other Brill Building habitues) should be the Rosetta Stone of early-60s pop: a blueprint of demos for the hits that would shape the Brill Building legend.
		Although these 57 slices of pure, three-minute Brill beauty are already nearing their half-decade mark, each and every single one remain, and still contain, the undeniable Sound of the Future in oh so many ways.
		It is dubious whether Carole herself participated in the release of this compilation (Brill Tone Records/ Made in Germany smacks of borderline legitimacy), but even if not there is nothing for her to regret or be ashamed of in this 57 track collection.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000056H90?v=glance (1457 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		THE BEAT GOES ON The pop music years between the golden era of rock and roll and the arrival of the Beatles belonged to the Brill Building songwriters.
		The Beat Goes On, in it’s continuing series of send-ups to the sound of music past, turns it’s attention to the lyricists and composers who shaped the early ‘60’s and beyond.
		The show will focus on the husband-wife teams most associated with the "Brill Building Sound" — Gerry Goffin & Carole King, Jeff Barry & Ellie Greenwich and Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil.
	www.bottomlinecabaret.com /spotlight_brill.html (257 words)

	Variety.com - Brill Building makes music as landmark
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		Barry, who worked in the Brill for three years with wife and songwriting partner Ellie Greenwich, recalled that his first hit was the morbid 1960 Ray Peterson hit "Tell Laura I Love Her," written with veteran Ben Raleigh and published by E.B. Marks Co.
		When Barry "first wrote the song, the hero didn't die in a stock car race, he was gored to death by a Brahma bull in a rodeo -- I didn't have a car, and was a fan of cowboys.
	www.variety.com /article/VR116132?categoryid=16&cs=1 (683 words)

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