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    The Brill Building is an office building at 1619 Broadway on 49th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, just north of Times Square and farther...
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    Brill Building (also known as Brill Building pop or the Brill Building sound) is a subgenre of pop music that took its name from the Brill Building in...
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  • submarine Brill (fish), a type of flatfish Brill (surname), for people who bear the family name Brill Brill Building, a New York City building notable for...
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  • The Brill Building is the sixth solo album by American composer and producer Kramer, released on September 25, 2012 by Tzadik Records. of Adapted from...
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    worked for Don Kirshner's Aldon Music at 1650 Broadway (near the famed Brill Building at 1619); offered Greenberg a song, "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", which...
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  • the late 1960s, that evolved from garage rock, novelty songs, and the Brill Building sound, and which was also defined by its target demographic of preteens...
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    upstaged by the rise of rock & roll, which was centered on the Brill Building. Brill Building songwriter Neil Sedaka described his employer as being a natural...
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    Greenfield, an aspiring poet and lyricist. They became two of the Brill Building's composers. Sedaka and Greenfield wrote songs together throughout much...
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  • Up On the Roof: Songs from the Brill Building, released in 1993 on Columbia Records, is a cover album and also the twenty-first studio album by Neil Diamond...
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  • 1619 Broadway: The Brill Building Project is a 2012 album by Kurt Elling, recorded as a tribute to the songwriters of the Brill Building in New York City...
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    Brill Academic Publishers, also known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, or Brill, is a Dutch international academic publisher of books and journals....
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  • It Hurts to Be in Love (category Brill Building songs)
    long line of successful "Brill Building Sound" hits created by composers and arrangers working in New York City's Brill Building at 1619 Broadway. The song...
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  • through being elaborate and melancholic, but it crossed into folk-pop and Brill Building styles. It may be seen as a form of escapism from the turmoil of the...
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    the UK Singles Chart. Known primarily as a performer of so-called "Brill Building pop" material, Vee went on to record a string of international hits...
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    worked for Don Kirshner's Aldon music at 1650 Broadway (near the famed Brill Building at 1619), offered Greenberg a song, "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", which...
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    soul music, and the Brill Building style of writing. Atkins has been compared to Roy Orbison and singers from the Brill Building era. Atkins was born...
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  • "Snuff" Garrett, arranged by Ernie Freeman, and was co-written at the Brill Building in New York by Gene Pitney, using his mother's maiden name (Orlowski)...
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    outgrowth of my despair".: 37  Diamond spent his early career in the Brill Building. His first success as a songwriter came in November 1965 with "Sunday...
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    bestowed by that Hall of Fame. Weil and her husband, both based at the Brill Building, were instrumental in shaping the sound of rock and roll in the 1960s...
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    "lieutenants". Spector frequently used songs from songwriters employed at the Brill Building (Trio Music) and at 1650 Broadway (Aldon Music), such as the teams of...
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    wrote at 1650 Broadway, alongside other songwriters associated with the Brill Building Sound. By 1968, Goffin and King were divorced and not keeping in contact...
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  • on the "girl group" sound, released some of the notable songs of the Brill Building period. In all, Leiber and Stoller wrote or co-wrote over 70 chart hits...
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    2012 Kramer released The Brill Building on John Zorn's Tzadik label, an album of cover songs written in the Brill Building in the early 1960s. In 2017...
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  • songwriting duo recognized as one of the most successful and prolific among Brill Building composers. Greenwich and Barry began dating after his marriage was annulled...
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  • Look of Love (Lesley Gore song) (category Brill Building songs)
    long line of successful "Brill Building Sound" hits created by composers and arrangers working in New York City's Brill Building at 1619 Broadway. Pop songwriting...
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    in music, Douglas suggested a movie about the personalities of the Brill Building, where she had worked. This led to her first starring role as singer-songwriter...
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  • Stupid Cupid (category Brill Building songs)
    number ones of the 1950s Fontenot, Robert (November 1, 2015). "What is Brill Building Music?". About. Archived from the original on July 7, 2016. Retrieved...
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    Mom + Pop first opened its doors in Times Square, across from the Brill Building. In 2013, the company moved its New York City office to Manhattan's...
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  • and Jill Sobule, replicating the musical style that emerged from the Brill Building, New York City's music factory in the heyday of girl groups and "pre-fab"...
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    Roof" epitomized the urban romantic dream as presented by New York City Brill Building writers: When this old world starts getting me down, And people are...
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