Sound Of The Brill Building: All Brits Edition Sound Of The Brill Building: All Brits Edition CD

THE BRILL BUILDING is an 11-story Art Deco office block, at 1619 Broadway, Manhattan, where the songwriters who shaped 1950s and 60s R&R, R&B and Pop music wrote, demoed and published their songs. The 'First Team' comprised seven songwriting duos: Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller, Gerry Goffin & Carole King, Doc Pomus & Mort Shuman, Neil Sedaka & Howard Greenfield, Burt Bacharach & Hal David, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil, and Jeff Barry & Ellie Greenwich. Other significant Brill Building songwriters included Ben Raleigh, Jack Keller, Bob Hilliard, Phil Spector, Paul Evans, Hank Hunter, Helen Miller, Tony Powers, Larry Kolber, Paul Hampton, Mark Barkan, Bobby Darin, Rose Marie McCoy and others. The companion to three further Jasmine Brill Building compilations, this volume is an "ALL BRITS EDITION", and features household names like Billy Fury, Marty Wilde, Cliff Richard, Emile Ford, Joe Brown, Lonnie Donegan, Alma Cogan, Adam Faith, Helen Shapiro, Kenny Lynch and many more

1. Marty Wilde - a Teenager in Love 2. Jimmy Justice - Dawning 3. Craig Douglas - When My Little Girl Is Smiling 4. Emile Ford ; the Checkmates - Counting Teardrops 5. Billy Fury - a King for Tonight 6. Joe Brown ; the Bruvvers - It Only Took a Minute 7. Lonnie Donegan - Lorelei 8. Ricky Valance - Don't Play No.9 9. John Leyton - Tell Laura I Love Her 10. Carol Deene - on the Outside Looking in 11. Alma Cogan - He Just Couldn't Resist Her with Her Pocket Transistor 12. Julie Grant - Up on the Roof 13. Penny - Who Does He Think He Is? 14. The Delaine Sisters - It Might As Well Rain Until September 15. The Viscounts - Who Put the Bomp 16. Gary Mills - Footsteps 17. Oliver Reed - Ecstasy 18. The Brook Brothers - Warpaint 19. Mark Wynter - Go Away Little Girl 20. The Vernons Girls - the Locomotion 21. Helen Shapiro - Tell Me What He Said 22. Jackie Lee ; the Raindrops - Will You Love Me Tomorrow 23. Janice Peters - This Little Girl's Gone Rockin' 24. Maureen Evans - Stupid Cupid 25. Laura Lee - Tell Tommy I Miss Him 26. Doug Sheldon - Play Me the Blues 27. Peter Gordeno - Uptown 28. Michael Holliday - the Story of My Life 29. Kenny Lynch - It Would Take a Miracle 30. Grant Tracy ; the Sunsets - Please Baby Please 31. Duffy Power - Dream Lover 32. Michael Cox - Too Hot to Handle 33. Adam Faith - I'm a Man 34. Cliff Richard ; the Drifters - the Snake and the Bookworm