“Be My Baby” is as universal as a pop song can be. It’s the song that made Ronnie Spector a timeless rock & roll legend, a teenage girl from Spanish Harlem who packed a lifetime of raw power into three minutes. Ever she belted out “Be My Baby” in 1963, it’s been the classic that sums up the whole Sixties girl-group era, with Phil Spector’s lavish Wall of Sound production. But it’s never left the airwaves. On Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs, “Be My Baby...
- 5/8/2024
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
Mary Weiss, the former lead singer of the 1960s pop girl group The Shangri-Las, died Friday at 75 years old. Her death was confirmed by her husband, who offered no details.
The group was made up of two sets of sisters, Mary and Betty Weiss, and twins Marge and Mary Ann Ganser, who formed in the Queens borough of New York City.
Mary Weiss was the lead singer, singing about teenage love and tragedy on such hits as “Remember (Walking in the Sand)” and “Leader of the Pack.” The latter was written by George “Shadow” Morton, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, and became a No. 1 pop hit in 1964.
“Remembering Mary Weiss with much love and affection. Mary was the ultimate,” Miriam Linna, who runs Norton Records, Weiss’ record label, said in a post on Facebook.
By 1968, the Shangri-Las disbanded because of litigation, a subject that Weiss said she was prevented from discussing even decades later.
The group was made up of two sets of sisters, Mary and Betty Weiss, and twins Marge and Mary Ann Ganser, who formed in the Queens borough of New York City.
Mary Weiss was the lead singer, singing about teenage love and tragedy on such hits as “Remember (Walking in the Sand)” and “Leader of the Pack.” The latter was written by George “Shadow” Morton, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, and became a No. 1 pop hit in 1964.
“Remembering Mary Weiss with much love and affection. Mary was the ultimate,” Miriam Linna, who runs Norton Records, Weiss’ record label, said in a post on Facebook.
By 1968, the Shangri-Las disbanded because of litigation, a subject that Weiss said she was prevented from discussing even decades later.
- 1/20/2024
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Darlene Love’s annual television performance of “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” was essentially orphaned after “Late Show With David Letterman” went off the air in 2015, putting an end to the 28-year streak that had the music legend singing her signature holiday song with Paul Shaffer’s band on Letterman’s last original show before Christmas each December. But they all reunited — not over the air, but on YouTube — for a resumption of the tradition, nine years after the last time this particular caroling took place on CBS.
Watch the video, below.
Love has sung the modern standard she originated on “The View,” but her song has not had a regular nighttime slot since 2014. She recently sang it on the Rockefeller Center prime-time special with Cher, who also asked Love to perform it with her on her recent Christmas album. But Love still has some feelings about never having been...
Watch the video, below.
Love has sung the modern standard she originated on “The View,” but her song has not had a regular nighttime slot since 2014. She recently sang it on the Rockefeller Center prime-time special with Cher, who also asked Love to perform it with her on her recent Christmas album. But Love still has some feelings about never having been...
- 12/20/2023
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Christmas has finally come home: In a sweet, new YouTube video, Darlene Love reunites with David Letterman and Paul Shaffer for the first time in nine years to resume a longtime holiday tradition that capped off the Christmas episodes of Letterman’s late night talk shows for 28 years.
“I hate all novelty holiday songs,” Letterman says in the new video posted on his Letterman YouTube channel. “I hate them. The only one I love is ‘Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).'”
Together again for the first time since the final Christmas episode of Letterman’s Late Show in 2014, Love, Letterman, Shaffer and Late Show executive producer Barbara Gaines chat about the annual performances that resurrected Love’s solo career and became a beloved holiday TV tradition.
The 1963 song, written Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, and Phil Spector and recorded by Love for the compilation album A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector,...
“I hate all novelty holiday songs,” Letterman says in the new video posted on his Letterman YouTube channel. “I hate them. The only one I love is ‘Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).'”
Together again for the first time since the final Christmas episode of Letterman’s Late Show in 2014, Love, Letterman, Shaffer and Late Show executive producer Barbara Gaines chat about the annual performances that resurrected Love’s solo career and became a beloved holiday TV tradition.
The 1963 song, written Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, and Phil Spector and recorded by Love for the compilation album A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector,...
- 12/19/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Earlier this year, Darlene Love picked up the phone and heard a voice on the other end she didn’t quite recognize at first. “Doll, hi!” she heard. “This is Cher.” Love asked her to repeat who was calling. “Cher, bitch!”
She was calling to see if Love would sing “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” with her on her upcoming holiday album Christmas, revisiting a tune they sang together exactly 60 years ago on A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector, one of the greatest Christmas albums in music history.
She was calling to see if Love would sing “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” with her on her upcoming holiday album Christmas, revisiting a tune they sang together exactly 60 years ago on A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector, one of the greatest Christmas albums in music history.
- 10/13/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Cynthia Weil, a Grammy-winning lyricist of notable range and endurance who enjoyed a decades-long partnership with husband Barry Mann and helped write “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling”, “On Broadway”, “Walking in the Rain” and dozens of other hits, has died at age 82.
Weil’s daughter, Dr. Jenn Mann, said that the songwriter died Thursday at her home in Beverly Hills, California, “surrounded by her family.” Mann, the couple’s only child, declined to cite a specific cause of death.
Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, married in 1961, were one of popular music’s most successful teams, part of a remarkable ensemble recruited by impresarios Don Kirshner and Al Nevins and based in Manhattan’s Brill Building neighborhood, a few blocks from Times Square. With such hit-making combinations as Carole King and Gerry Goffin and Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, the Brill Building song factory turned out many of the biggest...
Weil’s daughter, Dr. Jenn Mann, said that the songwriter died Thursday at her home in Beverly Hills, California, “surrounded by her family.” Mann, the couple’s only child, declined to cite a specific cause of death.
Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, married in 1961, were one of popular music’s most successful teams, part of a remarkable ensemble recruited by impresarios Don Kirshner and Al Nevins and based in Manhattan’s Brill Building neighborhood, a few blocks from Times Square. With such hit-making combinations as Carole King and Gerry Goffin and Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, the Brill Building song factory turned out many of the biggest...
- 6/3/2023
- by Melissa Romualdi
- ET Canada
Beyoncé took time out to honour a legend.
On Monday, the singer was performing at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium when she paid tribute to the late Tina Turner with a rendition of one of her most iconic songs.
Read More: Beyoncé Pays Tribute To Tina Turner During Paris Concert: ‘I Wouldn’t Be On This Stage Without Her’
For the tribute, Beyoncé sang a stripped down take on the 1966 classic “River Deep – Mountain High”, written by Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry with producer Phil Spector.
“I want you guys to help me sing one of my favourite songs,” Beyoncé said before launching into the song. “We love you, Tina.”
Beyoncé pays homage to the late, great Tina Turner in #London, with a performance of “River Deep, Mountain High.”
https://t.co/gQt79tz5wy #RWT2023 pic.twitter.com/Dt07Ft3OW7
— BEYONCÉ Legion (@BeyLegion) May 29, 2023
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On Monday, the singer was performing at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium when she paid tribute to the late Tina Turner with a rendition of one of her most iconic songs.
Read More: Beyoncé Pays Tribute To Tina Turner During Paris Concert: ‘I Wouldn’t Be On This Stage Without Her’
For the tribute, Beyoncé sang a stripped down take on the 1966 classic “River Deep – Mountain High”, written by Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry with producer Phil Spector.
“I want you guys to help me sing one of my favourite songs,” Beyoncé said before launching into the song. “We love you, Tina.”
Beyoncé pays homage to the late, great Tina Turner in #London, with a performance of “River Deep, Mountain High.”
https://t.co/gQt79tz5wy #RWT2023 pic.twitter.com/Dt07Ft3OW7
— BEYONCÉ Legion (@BeyLegion) May 29, 2023
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- 5/30/2023
- by Corey Atad
- ET Canada
Brooks Arthur, the Grammy-winning record producer, engineer and music supervisor behind films such as “The Karate Kid,” died on Oct. 9. He was 86.
Arthur was a highly respected producer who engineered hits such as Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” and Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl,” on which he sang backup. He reached the high point of his producing career with Janis Ian’s Grammy-winning 1975 debut album “Between the Lines,” which hit No. 1 on the Billboard album chart.
Throughout his career, Arthur worked with artists including the Grateful Dead, Art Garfunkel, Burt Bacharach, Dusty Springfield, Liza Minnelli and Peggy Lee, and he gathered 20 Grammy nominations — including three wins — as well as an Oscar nod for “Glory of Love” from “The Karate Kid II.”
Arthur began a 29-year relationship with Adam Sandler after producing his Grammy-nominated comedy hit “The Chanukah Song.” He went on to produce all of Sandler’s comedy albums...
Arthur was a highly respected producer who engineered hits such as Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” and Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl,” on which he sang backup. He reached the high point of his producing career with Janis Ian’s Grammy-winning 1975 debut album “Between the Lines,” which hit No. 1 on the Billboard album chart.
Throughout his career, Arthur worked with artists including the Grateful Dead, Art Garfunkel, Burt Bacharach, Dusty Springfield, Liza Minnelli and Peggy Lee, and he gathered 20 Grammy nominations — including three wins — as well as an Oscar nod for “Glory of Love” from “The Karate Kid II.”
Arthur began a 29-year relationship with Adam Sandler after producing his Grammy-nominated comedy hit “The Chanukah Song.” He went on to produce all of Sandler’s comedy albums...
- 10/11/2022
- by Ethan Shanfeld and Roy Trakin
- Variety Film + TV
Will Swenson will reprise his Boston performance in A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical when the production moves to Broadway this fall, producers confirmed today.
Swenson will be joined in New York by his Boston costars Mark Jacoby (Swenson and Jacoby play Diamond at different stages of the icon’s life), Robyn Hurder as Marcia, and Linda Powell as Doctor.
The castings were announced today by producers Ken Davenport and Bob Gaudio. A Beautiful Noise begins previews Wednesday, November 2 ahead of a Sunday, December 4 opening night at the Broadhurst Theatre.
Rounding out the cast will be Jessie Fisher, Michael McCormick, Tom Alan Robbins, and Bri Sudia as Ellie Greenwich and Rose Diamond.
Director Michael Mayer said in a statement, “I’m excited to bring our stunning company to the Broadhurst this fall to celebrate the music and life of Neil Diamond. His exceptional career speaks for itself, and I...
Swenson will be joined in New York by his Boston costars Mark Jacoby (Swenson and Jacoby play Diamond at different stages of the icon’s life), Robyn Hurder as Marcia, and Linda Powell as Doctor.
The castings were announced today by producers Ken Davenport and Bob Gaudio. A Beautiful Noise begins previews Wednesday, November 2 ahead of a Sunday, December 4 opening night at the Broadhurst Theatre.
Rounding out the cast will be Jessie Fisher, Michael McCormick, Tom Alan Robbins, and Bri Sudia as Ellie Greenwich and Rose Diamond.
Director Michael Mayer said in a statement, “I’m excited to bring our stunning company to the Broadhurst this fall to celebrate the music and life of Neil Diamond. His exceptional career speaks for itself, and I...
- 9/6/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Update, with reactions Anne Beatts, an original Saturday Night Live writer who created some of the show’s earliest breakthrough characters, among them the nerdy high schoolers Todd DILAMuca and Lisa Loopner, died yesterday. She was 74.
Her death was announced in a tweet by SNL original cast member Laraine Newman. A cause of death has not been disclosed.
“Struggling to find adequate and appropriate descriptive words to describe her singular self,” tweeted Sarah Jessica Parker, who starred in the Beatts-created 1982 CBS sitcom Square Pegs. “I need time. Cause I’m coming up short. Gosh, she was really something. Rip Anne. Thank you. For memories very few 17/18 yr olds get to make. X, Sj”
Beatts began her career in comedy writing with a stint at National Lampoon magazine, becoming the Harvard Lampoon spin-off’s first female editor. She wrote one of the magazine’s most notorious spoofs – an ad for the...
Her death was announced in a tweet by SNL original cast member Laraine Newman. A cause of death has not been disclosed.
“Struggling to find adequate and appropriate descriptive words to describe her singular self,” tweeted Sarah Jessica Parker, who starred in the Beatts-created 1982 CBS sitcom Square Pegs. “I need time. Cause I’m coming up short. Gosh, she was really something. Rip Anne. Thank you. For memories very few 17/18 yr olds get to make. X, Sj”
Beatts began her career in comedy writing with a stint at National Lampoon magazine, becoming the Harvard Lampoon spin-off’s first female editor. She wrote one of the magazine’s most notorious spoofs – an ad for the...
- 4/8/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Spoiler Alert: Santa Claus blows a mean sax.
The high point of Netflix’s The Christmas Chronicles 2 comes at its least festive moment. The young and grieving teen Kate Pierce (Darby Camp) is mistaken for a runaway and taken away by airport authorities–while being lost in time–all the flights on Logan International Airport’s big board turn from hour-long delays to outright cancellations, and joy in that small part of Boston drops to 7 percent. People are all up in each other’s grills, nerves are frayed, and complimentary hotel stays are not going to cut it. They are not a merry bunch. If ever there was a time for a holiday miracle, this would be it. Only now, when things are at their darkest, does a flustered ticket agent named Grace (Darlene Love) reach for the public address microphone–and deliver “The Spirit of Christmas.”
Darlene Love...
The high point of Netflix’s The Christmas Chronicles 2 comes at its least festive moment. The young and grieving teen Kate Pierce (Darby Camp) is mistaken for a runaway and taken away by airport authorities–while being lost in time–all the flights on Logan International Airport’s big board turn from hour-long delays to outright cancellations, and joy in that small part of Boston drops to 7 percent. People are all up in each other’s grills, nerves are frayed, and complimentary hotel stays are not going to cut it. They are not a merry bunch. If ever there was a time for a holiday miracle, this would be it. Only now, when things are at their darkest, does a flustered ticket agent named Grace (Darlene Love) reach for the public address microphone–and deliver “The Spirit of Christmas.”
Darlene Love...
- 12/1/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
"Goin' to the chapel and we're gonna get married," sang The Dixie Cups in "Chapel of Love," written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector. In Come As You Are, three young men with disabilities are most definitely not going to a chapel intending to marry. Instead, per the official synopsis, they "flee their overbearing parents on a road trip to a brothel in Montreal catering to people with special needs." Hmm, this really does not sound like The Dixie Cups. The synopsis continues: "Sam (Gabourey Sidibe), a traveling nurse, drives the three guys across the border as they go on this trip to lose their virginity and embrace their independence. A remake of the award winning,...
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- 12/17/2019
- Screen Anarchy
On a punishingly hot day in August of 1963, Darlene Love walked into L.A.’s Gold Star Studios with producer Phil Spector to lay down the vocals for a new song he’d just written with Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich called “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).” It had the ill-fortune of arriving in record stores on the exact day that President Kennedy was assassinated and didn’t fare well on the charts since America wasn’t exactly in a celebratory mood at the time. But over the years the song became a holiday classic,...
- 12/11/2018
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Neil Diamond will always be a classic gem in the rock business.
With over 130 million albums sold, multiple Grammy wins and a spot in the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, the 76-year old singer is currently celebrating more than half a century in the music industry with his 50th Anniversary tour. To join in his festivities, here are the stories behind some of Diamond’s biggest hits.
1. “Red Red Wine” (1967)
Though the song was first recorded by Diamond, UB40 recorded this song as a cover of the Tony Tribe 1969 reggae version.
UB40 didn’t realize until after it topped...
With over 130 million albums sold, multiple Grammy wins and a spot in the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, the 76-year old singer is currently celebrating more than half a century in the music industry with his 50th Anniversary tour. To join in his festivities, here are the stories behind some of Diamond’s biggest hits.
1. “Red Red Wine” (1967)
Though the song was first recorded by Diamond, UB40 recorded this song as a cover of the Tony Tribe 1969 reggae version.
UB40 didn’t realize until after it topped...
- 8/21/2017
- by Brianne Tracy
- PEOPLE.com
When was the last time you thought about The Iron Horse? Or The Time Tunnel? How about The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.? All are television shows that premiered the second week of September in 1966, and all have effectively faded from memory. Not so with The Monkees, the groundbreaking TV-music-performance project that ran amok across the late '60s pop cultural landscape like Frankenstein's multimedia monster. 50 years later, it's still very much alive.
Earlier this year, the three surviving Monkees reunited in the studio with producer Adam Schlesinger – a veteran of the uber-poppy Fountains of Wayne and the tunesmith behind the brilliant...
Earlier this year, the three surviving Monkees reunited in the studio with producer Adam Schlesinger – a veteran of the uber-poppy Fountains of Wayne and the tunesmith behind the brilliant...
- 9/30/2016
- by Jordan Runtagh, @jordanruntagh
- People.com - TV Watch
When was the last time you thought about The Iron Horse? Or The Time Tunnel? How about The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.? All are television shows that premiered the second week of September in 1966, and all have effectively faded from memory. Not so with The Monkees, the groundbreaking TV-music-performance project that ran amok across the late '60s pop cultural landscape like Frankenstein's multimedia monster. 50 years later, it's still very much alive. Earlier this year, the three surviving Monkees reunited in the studio with producer Adam Schlesinger - a veteran of the uber-poppy Fountains of Wayne and the tunesmith behind the...
- 9/30/2016
- by Jordan Runtagh, @jordanruntagh
- PEOPLE.com
Think holiday traditions and mistletoe, eggnog, and caroling come to mind. David Letterman’s Christmas includes target practice at a giant meatball, the Lone Ranger, and singer Darlene Love.
Each has become part of CBS Late Show lore through the years, their appearances anticipated by fans like wrapped presents under a tree. The meatball, the Lone Ranger, and Love all return Friday.
Comic Jay Thomas will be back to try to knock a meatball off the top of a Christmas tree with a football, and recount his Lone Ranger anecdote again. Love will sing “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” as...
Each has become part of CBS Late Show lore through the years, their appearances anticipated by fans like wrapped presents under a tree. The meatball, the Lone Ranger, and Love all return Friday.
Comic Jay Thomas will be back to try to knock a meatball off the top of a Christmas tree with a football, and recount his Lone Ranger anecdote again. Love will sing “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” as...
- 12/22/2011
- by Associated Press
- EW.com - PopWatch
HollywoodNews.com: I’d like to say I am shocked at the news of Nick Ashford‘s death, but he didn’t appear at the Songwriters Hall of Fame dinner this past June. His wife and songwriting partner, Valerie Simpson, was there. They were never ever apart. They were really inseparable. Someone who knew them said to me, “Something is wrong.” It seems that Nick had throat cancer, which no one knew. This is a terrible blow for Valerie and their two daughters, for their trusted aide de camp Tee Austen, and everyone who loves Ashford and Simpson.
Nick was a tall drink of water with a beautiful, sunny disposition. He was one of the most elegant and thoughtful people I’ve ever met in the music business. He and Valerie — like Leiber and Stoller, King and Goffin, Mann and Weil, Neils Diamond and Sedaka, Ellie Greenwich, Smokey Robinson, Isaac Hayes and David Porter,...
Nick was a tall drink of water with a beautiful, sunny disposition. He was one of the most elegant and thoughtful people I’ve ever met in the music business. He and Valerie — like Leiber and Stoller, King and Goffin, Mann and Weil, Neils Diamond and Sedaka, Ellie Greenwich, Smokey Robinson, Isaac Hayes and David Porter,...
- 8/23/2011
- by Roger Friedman
- Hollywoodnews.com
Nick Jonas will take part at the 25th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. The one-third of the Jonas Brothers has got the honor to perform a 1959 song written by this year's inductee Mort Shuman and previously-inducted musician Doc Pomus titled "A Teenager In Love".
The 17-year-old singer joins other performers set for the show, including Fefe Dobson, Eric Burdon of The Animals, Chris Isaak, Ronnie Spector, Peter Wolf, Faith Hill, Adam Levine and Jesse Carmichael of Maroon 5 as well as Pat Monahan of Train. He will take the stage at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City on Monday, March 15.
Abba, Genesis, Jimmy Cliff, The Hollies and The Stooges are among those to be inducted this year. Music producer David Geffen and seven songwriters, including Jeff Barry, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Ellie Greenwich, Jesse Stone and Otis Blackwell, are also included on the induction list as well.
The 17-year-old singer joins other performers set for the show, including Fefe Dobson, Eric Burdon of The Animals, Chris Isaak, Ronnie Spector, Peter Wolf, Faith Hill, Adam Levine and Jesse Carmichael of Maroon 5 as well as Pat Monahan of Train. He will take the stage at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City on Monday, March 15.
Abba, Genesis, Jimmy Cliff, The Hollies and The Stooges are among those to be inducted this year. Music producer David Geffen and seven songwriters, including Jeff Barry, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Ellie Greenwich, Jesse Stone and Otis Blackwell, are also included on the induction list as well.
- 3/15/2010
- by celebrity-mania.com
- Celebrity Mania
Nick Jonas is expected to perform at the 25th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. The youngest member of the Jonas Brothers reportedly is scheduled to sing "A Teenager In Love", a 1959 song written by this year's inductee Mort Shuman and previously-inducted musician Doc Pomus.
The gig will take place at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City on March 15 and is going to be broadcast live at 8:30 P.M. on Fuse. Other musical guests include Fefe Dobson, Eric Burdon of The Animals, Chris Isaak, Ronnie Spector, Peter Wolf, Faith Hill, Adam Levine and Jesse Carmichael of Maroon 5 as well as Pat Monahan of Train.
This year's inductees are Abba, Genesis, Jimmy Cliff, The Hollies and The Stooges. They will be presented by Bee Gees' members Barry Gibb and Robin Gibb, Trey Anastasio, Wyclef Jean, Steven Van Zandt and Joe Armstrong respectively.
Additionally, producer...
The gig will take place at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City on March 15 and is going to be broadcast live at 8:30 P.M. on Fuse. Other musical guests include Fefe Dobson, Eric Burdon of The Animals, Chris Isaak, Ronnie Spector, Peter Wolf, Faith Hill, Adam Levine and Jesse Carmichael of Maroon 5 as well as Pat Monahan of Train.
This year's inductees are Abba, Genesis, Jimmy Cliff, The Hollies and The Stooges. They will be presented by Bee Gees' members Barry Gibb and Robin Gibb, Trey Anastasio, Wyclef Jean, Steven Van Zandt and Joe Armstrong respectively.
Additionally, producer...
- 3/15/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Abba, Genesis, The Stooges, Jimmy Cliff and The Hollies will be inducted into the Us Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame next year. The artists have been invited to the ceremony in New York on March 15 after being selected from a longlist featuring Kiss and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Billboard reports. Producer David Geffen and songwriters Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil, Ellie Greenwich & Jeff Barry, Jesse Stone, Mort Shuman and Otis Blackwell will receive the Ahmet Ertegun Award for non-performers. Of the possibility of a performance at the ceremony, (more)...
- 12/16/2009
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Nominees LL Cool J, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Kiss didn't make the cut for 2010.
By Gil Kaufman
The Stooges' Iggy Pop
Photo: Tim Mosenfelder/ Getty Images
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class of 2010 runs the gamut from the progenitors of bloody-knuckle punk rock, the Stooges, to the group that made candy-colored disco sing-alongs a worldwide obsession, Abba.
According to Rolling Stone, the Detroit-bred architects of "Raw Power" and the Swedish pop tarts are among a group of inductees that also includes long-running prog-rock-turned-radio-pop group Genesis, reggae icon Jimmy Cliff and 1960s English rock group the Hollies.
The 25th annual induction ceremony will return to New York's Waldorf Astoria on March 15, 2010, after taking a detour to Cleveland — home of the actual Hall of Fame building — for last year's ceremony, which enshrined Metallica, Run-dmc and Jeff Beck. The induction of the Stooges will end a long journey for Iggy Pop's band,...
By Gil Kaufman
The Stooges' Iggy Pop
Photo: Tim Mosenfelder/ Getty Images
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class of 2010 runs the gamut from the progenitors of bloody-knuckle punk rock, the Stooges, to the group that made candy-colored disco sing-alongs a worldwide obsession, Abba.
According to Rolling Stone, the Detroit-bred architects of "Raw Power" and the Swedish pop tarts are among a group of inductees that also includes long-running prog-rock-turned-radio-pop group Genesis, reggae icon Jimmy Cliff and 1960s English rock group the Hollies.
The 25th annual induction ceremony will return to New York's Waldorf Astoria on March 15, 2010, after taking a detour to Cleveland — home of the actual Hall of Fame building — for last year's ceremony, which enshrined Metallica, Run-dmc and Jeff Beck. The induction of the Stooges will end a long journey for Iggy Pop's band,...
- 12/15/2009
- MTV Music News
On my first day of college freshman orientation I met the president of the student body, Sandy Pearlman. He had long hair and I figured I could get pot from him. He turned out to be virtually the only non-pot smoker that I ever met at college. But he taught me about the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, the Rolling Stones and The Byrds. He talked me into running for freshman class president and we've been friends ever since. Until yesterday I'd been completely unsuccessful in persuading him to write a post for my blog, DownWithTyranny. Sandy currently holds the Schulich Distinguished Chair at McGill University. When I first met him in 1965 he had just gotten a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in the History of Ideas. Recently he was appointed to the National Recording Preservation Board (Nrpb) of the...
- 9/7/2009
- by Howie Klein
- Huffington Post
The blond bouffant wasn’t in vogue for all that long in American beauty-parlor history, but it has taken on outsized significance as an emblem of the bubbly, frothy, teenybop Sixties of the pre-hippie era: a time of perfectly crafted two-minute pop singles rife with the word “baby.” And if ever there was a woman who embodied the blond bouffant, it was Ellie Greenwich, the marvelous Brill Building songwriter who died on Wednesday at the age of sixty-eight. While such colleagues as Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Gerry Goffin, and Carole King all exuded a certain professional cool as they went about their writing and recording business, Greenwich was irrepressible. She was a congenitally upbeat sorority girl from Long Island with a talent for melody that was as expansive as her turbine hairstyle, and she couldn’t help but get excited over the job of recording the songs she wrote with her then-husband,...
- 8/31/2009
- Vanity Fair
Say Cheese: Grilled Fontina and Prosciutto Pizza Check out some cool upcoming kid films 7 aging surprises you might not expect How to: decorate on the cheap with pretty plates UK toy master builds house from Legos Cute new movie duo: Mandy Moore and the UK Office's Tim 6 things found in your bathroom that can kill your dog 10 eating tips to avoid the freshman 15 Fall glimpse: hot toes 6 ways to protect your stuff at the beach Can you spot the Ellie Greenwich song?...
- 8/28/2009
- by PopSugar
- Popsugar.com
Rock 'n' roll songwriter Ellie Greenwich has passed away from a heart attack Wednesday morning in St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York where she had been treated for pneumonia. Greenwich became one of the U.S.'s top songwriters in the sixties, and she is most famous for having co-penned classics such as "Be My Baby," "Chapel Of Love," "River Deep, Mountain High," and "Maybe I Know." With her Brill Building contemporaries -- Gerry Goffin, Burt Bacharach, Hal David, Carole King, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Neil Sedaka, and former husband Jeff Barry--she supplied a soundtrack for half a decade, heavily contributing to and influencing what would become known as the "Girl Group" sound. Ellie Greenwich first dabbled with music on the accordion, switching to piano on which she started writing in her teens. She scored a record contract with RCA Records...
- 8/27/2009
- by Mike Ragogna
- Huffington Post
Pop singer/songwriter Ellie Greenwich has died of a heart attack after being admitted at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital in New York for pneumonia. She was 68.
Greenwich, best known for co-writing The Ronnettes' "Be My Baby" in 1963 and The Crystals' "Da Doo Ron Ron" in 1963, recorded her first single for RCA Records at the age of 17. She met her future husband and songwriting partner, Jeff Barry, while still in college.
In 1984, a musical that celebrated her life and music, "Leader of the Pack," opened at Bottom Line. It was revamped for Broadway the following year. The musical, which included many of her pop hits, was nominated for Tony and Grammy Awards.
Her 50-year career included numerous gold and platinum discs and a Songwriters' Hall of Fame induction in 1991.
Greenwich, best known for co-writing The Ronnettes' "Be My Baby" in 1963 and The Crystals' "Da Doo Ron Ron" in 1963, recorded her first single for RCA Records at the age of 17. She met her future husband and songwriting partner, Jeff Barry, while still in college.
In 1984, a musical that celebrated her life and music, "Leader of the Pack," opened at Bottom Line. It was revamped for Broadway the following year. The musical, which included many of her pop hits, was nominated for Tony and Grammy Awards.
Her 50-year career included numerous gold and platinum discs and a Songwriters' Hall of Fame induction in 1991.
- 8/27/2009
- icelebz.com
Singer-songwriter Ellie Greenwich, who penned a string of classic 1960s rock 'n' roll songs, has passed away, aged 69. Greenwich died of a heart attack at New York's St Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, where she had been admitted a few days earlier for treatment of pneumonia, according to The AP. Greenwich wrote hits including 'Da Doo Ron Ron', 'Be My Baby' and 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)'. She was inducted (more)...
- 8/26/2009
- by By Oli Simpson
- Digital Spy
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