Gerry Goffin
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Karin Kasdin: Get Them While They're Young
dark eyes. It had so epitomized my ideal boyfriend that I cut it out and put it in my wallet. It was still there the day I met Gerry Goffin. In the fall of 1958, when Gerry was nineteen and I was sixteen, he was a night student at Queens College ... One afternoon, from The Huffington Post Read more »
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Hit musical is not so far away
(originally Carole Klein) got her start at the Brill Building and met and fell in love with her first writing partner, Gerry Goffin. “Beautiful” deals with the birth of their daughter and their painful divorce. The breakup plunged King into despair, but she from New York Post Read more »
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Graded on a Curve: Ellie Greenwich, “I Want You to Be My Baby” b/w “Goodnight, Goodnight”
example being The Crystals’ Goffin-King penned “He Hit Me (It Felt Like a Kiss)” (made even more so by the fact that Gerry Goffin wrote the words), the genre also didn’t have the market cornered on the era’s retrograde sensibilities. The fact that the Brill from The Vinyl District Read more »
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ArtsBeat: A Carole King Musical Is Broadway Bound
You Love Me Tomorrow,” which turned out to be the first No. 1 hit by a young, married songwriting team, Carole King and Gerry Goffin. Their marriage ended in 1968, but the pop music world continued to love their work, and the songs Ms. King continued to write, from The New York Times Music Read more »
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Jazz vocalist Kurt Elling defies convention with his homage to Brill Building standards
been deemed rock 'n' roll heaven from a songwriting perspective. The Brill Building was the place where great tunesmiths from Gerry Goffin and Carole King to Burt Bacharach and Hal David wrote anthems that are as much a part of the contemporary pop songbook from Nashville Scene Read more »
