#gerry goffin

[davidhudson]

Happy 82nd, Carole King.

With Al Nevins and Gerry Goffin.

#carole king #al nevins #gerry goffin #music

[mywifeleftme]

360: Dusty Springfield // Dusty Springfield's Golden Hits

Dusty Springfield's Golden Hits Dusty Springfield 1966, Philips

These early Dusty Springfield singles really get the “Wall of Sound” production treatment, despite Mr. Spector’s absence from the credits: mixed loud as hell like the kids liked it, screaming string charts, backing vocals en regalia, and a big beat knocking around underneath. Folks love to cite her as the second artist of the British Invasion to hit the U.S. charts, and for cultural reasons that may be significant, but her early sound was indistinguishable from American acts like Lesley Gore and the Shirelles. I don’t know many of the details about her career, but it seems like whoever was managing her was hell-bent on breaking her in the States. Call it a credit to English ingenuity (and specifically arranger Ivor Raymonde) that they were able to give Springfield a knock-out sound that passes for the contemporary Hollywood (or Detroit) product.

Dusty Springfield’s Golden Hits, her first major compilation, is Brill Building / girl group-style music par excellence, with a murderer’s row of hitwriters from both sides of the pond (Bacharach/David, Goffin/King, Beatrice Verdi/Buddy Kaye, etc.). Practically anyone could’ve had chart success with these songs and this packaging (and a number of these were subsequently hits for others), but Springfield had a cannon of a voice on her that makes the best of these numbers undeniable. Those who place her voice with the Arethas and Dionne Warwicks wish she’d been guided towards soul or sophisticated torch songs from the start, but I personally love it when someone vocally overqualified for bubblegum is made to tear into a good bop. “I Only Want to Be With You” is buffeted along by the force of her voice, the violins shrieking like a 33rpm record dragged up to 45; “Little By Little” could’ve been written for a Motown powerhouse like Darlene Love (but scarcely improved on by her); “I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself” moves from the sound of a girl sadly combing her hair before her vanity to Sampson bringing down the temple.

There’s plenty of treacle here, and “Wishin’ and Hopin’” probably set feminism further back than “He Hit Me (It Felt Like a Kiss),” but this is a worthy addition to any ‘60s pop library.

360/365

#dusty springfield #'60s music #'60s pop #british invasion #burt bacharach #hal david #gerry goffin #carol king #buddy kaye #beatrice verdi #r&b #girl group #motown #i just don't know what to do with myself #arliss #music review #vinyl record #female singer

[johnlennonofficial]

John Lennon rehearsing his harmonica part for “Chains”, 1963

#john lennon #the beatles #john #please please me #chains #gerry goffin #carole king #1963 #all the songs #jean michel guesdon #philippe margotin #sorry ur getting a lotta all the songs content today #i’ll probably queue some of it #for later

[lisamarie-vee]

#carole king #gerry goffin #rock and roll hall of fame

[odk-2]

Little Eva - The Loco-Motion (1962) Gerry Goffin / Carole King from: "The Loco-Motion" / "He is the Boy"

Pop | Rock | 1960′s Dance Song | The Brill Building

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Personnel: Little Eva (Eva Boyd): Vocals Artie Kaplan: Saxophone: Baritone and Tenor Saxophone Overdubs Tenor Saxophone Solo Carole King: Piano Charlie Macey: Guitar / Bass Buddy Saltzman: Drums

Backing Vocals: Carole King The Cookies: Dorothy Jones Earl-Jean McCrea Margaret Ross

Arranged by Carole King Produced by Gerry Goffin

Recorded: @ The Dick Charles Recording Studios in New York City, New York USA during 1961

Released: during June of 1962

Dimension Records (US) London Records (UK|Europe)

"The song is an enduring example of the dance-song genre" - Wikipedia

#Little Eva #The Loco-Motion #Carole King #Gerry Goffin #Dimension Records #London Records #The Cookies #Artie Kaplan #Eva Boyd #Dance Song #1960's #The Brill Building

[krispyweiss]

Lamont Dozier Dies at 81

- Songwriter was one-third of Motown’s famed Holland-Dozier-Holland team

Lamont Dozier, one-third of Motown’s famed Holland-Dozier-Holland songwriting/production team, has died, his family said.

The “devoted father and legendary songwriter, producer and recording artist” died Aug. 8 of undisclosed causes. He was 81

“We love him dearly and will miss him always,” Dozier’s family said.

Brian Wilson said the team was “responsible for much of the Motown Sound” and recalled the songs they wrote for the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, the Four Tops and others.

“Ah - God bless Lamont,” Ronnie Wood wrote on Facebook. “His music will live on.”

During their 1962-’67 run at Motown, Holland-Dozier-Holland wrote songs such as “Baby Love,” “Stop! In the Name of Love,” “You Keep Me Hangin’ On,” “How Sweet it Is” and countless others.

“Lamont was an extremely talented, equally humble and warmhearted pillar for our entire Motown Records family who helped to perfect the label’s sonic influence across generations and cultures to come,” the Motown Museum said in a statement.

“We join his dedicated fans around the world in not only mourning the loss of one of the greatest singers, songwriters and producers of all time, but also a father and husband to his loving family.”

The H-D-H songbook comprises “our eternal R&B hymns,” Paul Shaffer said in a tweet.

Carole King said she and Gerry Goffin looked up to the songwriting team, adding in a tweet: “Striving to keep up with them made us better songwriters.”

Leo Sayer said Dozier was “composer of all my favorite Motown songs;” Paul Stanley remembered him as “one of the architects of the Motown Sound;” and Diane Warren called Dozier “one of the greatest songwriters of all time” in a post on social media.

“Lamont, your songs will live forever and in that way you will live forever,” Warren said.

8/9/22

#lamont dozier #holland-dozier-holland #motown #the supremes #smokey robinson #the miracles #marvin gaye #the four tops #paul shaffer #carole king #gerry goffin #ronnie wood #the rolling stones #faces #diane warren #leo sayer #paul stanley #kiss #brian wilson #the beach boys

[peninsularian]

Classy 1970 version of the Carole King classic, featuring the Hi house-band under the leadership of Willie Mitchell

#na allen #no easy way down #soul #ballad #carole king #gerry goffin

[ourmindonmusicpodcast]

The Quintessential Carole King and Gerry Goffin Songbook: Writing BEAUTIFUL Music

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#70s #Carole King #Classic Rock #Gerry Goffin #music #music discussion #Music Education #music history #music of our youth #musician #piano #singer #Women in Music

[filosofablogger]

♫ Up On The Roof ♫

I have only played this one once, in 2019, so it’s fair game for a redux!  Ever wish you could just go “up on the roof” and get away from it all?  I think we all wish that from time to time.  Well, close your eyes and listen, pretend, put your cares behind you for just a few minutes.  With three versions to choose from, there’s something for everyone here … This song, released in 1962 first by…

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#Carole King #Gerry Goffin #James Taylor #Kenny Lynch #The Drifters #West Side Story

[davidhudson]

Happy 81st, Carole King.

With Gerry Goffin.

#carole king #gerry goffin #music

[ronnydeschepper]

Vijftig jaar geleden: "Oh no, not my baby" (Rod Stewart)

 Rod Stewart (backed by his Faces bandmates Ron Wood, Kenney Jones and Ian McLagan) bracht vijftig jaar geleden “Oh No Not My Baby” uit, een nummer oorspronkelijk geschreven door Gerry Goffin en Carole King. Hier bij ons ging het nummer ongemerkt voorbij, maar in Engeland is het toch tot op de zesde plaats van de hitparade gegaan. Continue reading Untitled

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#Aretha Franklin #Carole King #Cher #Dusty Springfield #Gerry Goffin #Linda Ronstadt #Manfred Mann #Maxine Brown #Merry Clayton #Rod Stewart

[lisamarie-vee]

#vintage magazine #cash box #1960s #little eva #carole king #gerry goffin #trains

[rawrampmag]

MARC BROUSSARD @MarcBroussard #NewSingle #BobbyBlueBland #imagination Feat. @JBONAMASSA + @joshsmithguitar @erickrasno @guitarsoverguns #AlbumRelease #SOS4

MARC BROUSSARD @MarcBroussard #NewSingle #BobbyBlueBland #imagination Feat. @JBONAMASSA + @joshsmithguitar @erickrasno @guitarsoverguns #AlbumRelease #SOS4

American ‘Bayou Soul’ singer-songwriter and performer MARC BROUSSARD (son of one time Louisiana Boogie King Ted Broussard) has covered a Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland blues-soul standard, ‘I’ve Got To Use My Imagination’ as the new single from his forthcoming studio album ‘S.O.S. 4: Blues For Your Soul’ due out next month. 50 percent of the proceeds from sales of the single will  go to Guitars Over Guns in…

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#Barry Goldberg #Bobby Bland #Eric Krasno #Gerry Goffin #Gladys Knight #Guitars Over Guns #I&039;ve Got To Use My Imagination #Imagination Marc Broussard #Josh Smith #lemon chayote #MARC BROUSSARD #neil mach #raw ramp #rawramp

[history105rockandrollblog]

Lecture 12: “It’s Too Late” (1971) by Carole King. Janis Joplin helped pave the way for strong female singers like Carole King (1942- ), who focused much more on songwriting and the sound of their music than on fashion or their appearance. King was one of the most successful songwriters from the heyday of the Brill Building era (along with onetime husband Gerry Goffin), yet it was not until the feminist movement and the successes of trailblazers like Joplin that she was able to write and sing the type of music that represented deeper expressions of her personal and women’s issues. Her 1971 album, Tapestry, is widely regarded as a masterpiece and one of the greatest albums ever recorded.

#Carole King #Women in Rock #It's Too Late #1971 #Tapestry (1971 album) #The Brill Building #Gerry Goffin #singer-songwriters

[marvelettes]

Little Eva with Carole King and Gerry Goffin.

Little Eva used to be a babysitter working for Carole King and Gerry Goffin. The infamous song "He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)" by The Crystals was written by King and Goffin after Little Eva had told them about her relationship with an abusive boyfriend who beat her almost on regular basis. When they asked her why she tolerated that, she answered that "it symbolized how much he loved her".

The subject matter of the song made it a commercial failure. It was disliked by the public, and radio stations denied the song airplay. The Crystals hated the song as well. Why Phil Spector convinced them to record it and then tried to release it as a single remains a mystery today.

#Little Eva #Carole King #Gerry Goffin #The Crystals #Phil Spector #music facts #1960s #60s music #*

[retropopcult]

"Saving All My Love for You" is a song made famous by American singer Whitney Houston, who recorded it for her debut album in 1985. It became her first single to hit #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and eventually went Platinum for sales of over 1 million copies. At the 28th Annual Grammy Awards, it won for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

The song caused some controversy for Houston due to its theme of having an affair with a married man. Her mother, Cissy, did not like the scenario described in the lyrics, claiming that the song's message would reflect badly on her daughter. However, later Whitney herself confessed, “I was going through a terrible love affair at the time. He was married, and that will never work out for anybody. Never, no way.”

"Saving All My Love" was originally written by Michael Masser and Gerry Goffin during the 1970s and first recorded by Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis for their album but not released as a single. Years later, Masser saw Whitney for the first time in New York when she was singing one of his songs, "The Greatest Love of All". After her performance, Houston told Masser that the song was one of her favorites and later, Masser was chosen by Arista to produce some tracks for Houston's first album.  He offered up "Saving All My Love" and she said she "immediately responded to it, emotionally."

After the success of her previous single, "You Give Good Love", the executives at Arista Records didn't think "Saving All My Love for You" was a good follow up for next single. When Masser heard this, he made a friendly wager with Arista's president, Clive Davis, during one of Houston's performances at the Roxy Theatre in LA. Masser proposed that if all the women got on their feet when Houston started single "Saving All My Love", then Davis would agree that it should be the next single. They did and it was. 

#1980s #romantic ballad #music video #80s pop