The Sound of the Brill Building: All Brits Edition

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. 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.

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

Number of Discs: 1

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