Various Artists – The Sound of The Brill Building – All Brits Edition

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.

Track Listing

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