Da Doo Ron Ron-More From The Ellie Greenwich & Jeff Barry Songbook
Da Doo Ron Ron-More From The Ellie Greenwich & Jeff Barry Songbook
CD
CD (Compact Disc)
Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.
- Label: Ace
- Bestellnummer: 2483628
- Erscheinungstermin: 30.4.2012
Drei Ehepaar-Songwriting-Teams bestimmten die populäre Musik der
Kennedy-Ära in den USA: Gerry Goffin & Carole King, Barry Mann & Cynthia
Weil und eben Ellie Greenwich und Jeff Barry. Es bräuchte schon
ein Mehrfach-CD-Boxset um die Arbeit der drei Paare umfangreich und zu genüge zu repräsentieren, aber diese zweite 24 Track-Kopplung schafft
zumindest einen ersten guten Überblick auf ihr Schaffen und hat den
Fokus diesmal auf Girl Group-Pop der 1960er Jahre: Ronettes – ‘Baby
I Love You’, Connie Francis – ‘Don’t Ever Leave Me’, Monkees
– ‘She Hangs Out’, Shangri-Las – ‘The Train From Kansas City’,
Manfred Mann With Paul Jones – ‘That’s All I Ever Want From You
Baby’, Lesley Gore – ‘Look Of Love’, Crystals – ‘Da Doo Ron Ron
(When He Walked Me Home)’ u. v.a.
New York’s famed Brill Building housed many talented teams of songwriters whose names are immortalised in the realm of popular music. Brooklyn natives Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry each had budding careers as composers before they joined up in 1962, at which point the fruits of their labours became spectacular. Ace’s second collection of the couple’s output is proof that there are no words to describe their talent.
There are some beautiful confections here. The girl group phenomenon of the early 1960s was the duo’s area of expertise. Take New York’s most famous female groups of the day – the Shangri-Las, the Crystals, the Chiffons, the Jelly Beans, the Ronettes, the Dixie Cups, the Exciters (and even the elusive Butterflys); their best-remembered songs and biggest hits came from the pens of Greenwich and Barry. The Exciters’ ‘All Grown Up’, once confined to the vaults, makes the earlier Phil Spector-produced versions sound anaemic. The Chiffons track comes from their most difficult to track down album. Connie Francis released her perfect contribution to the girl group sound with the stomping ‘Don’t Ever Leave Me’ in the same year that Lesley Gore’s equally compelling ‘Look Of Love’ hit the charts. Greenwich and Barry were so good at supplying material to groups that they even recorded as one of their own, calling themselves the Raindrops. All the above-named are represented on this stuffed-to-bursting-with-pop-classics collection.
Greenwich and Barry were mainstays of the Philles label and Red Bird Records. It was no mean feat to be amongst the preferred purveyors of material to moguls such as Phil Spector, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and it would be impossible to put together a collection of either label’s hits without embracing an armful of songs from the husband and wife team. After Philles and Red Bird, the duo went on to Bert Berns’ Bang Records, where Jeff Barry had a hand in a hit for the McCoys, also here.
Amongst the other male acts on this set are Jay & the Americans, the Monkees and the Tokens; the latter just happens to be the earliest known recording of a Greenwich and Barry song. And there’s a song by Manfred Mann for which an American original version has yet to be discovered. The Shangri-Las may have had the bigger chart hit with ‘Give Us Your Blessing’ but this CD includes the original version by Ray Peterson. A track each from the composers finishes off this exuberant collection.
By Eric Charge
(acerecords. co. uk)
,,Der Sampler Do Wah Diddy, Folge 1 der Greenwich-Barry-Perlen, war bereits ein Volltreffer in Sachen Brill-Building-Pop. Und die nächste Ladung mit 24 Songs (vornehmlich) aus den Sixties hält jedem Qualitätsvergleich stand. Ein Wunder ist das wirklich nicht, denn Ellie Greenwich & Jeff Barry (teilweise unter Mithilfe von Phil Spector) schüttelten unwiderstehlich ins Ohr und weiter ins Langzeitgedächtnis flutschende Klassesongs zuhauf aus dem Ärmel." (Good Times, August / September 2012)
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New York’s famed Brill Building housed many talented teams of songwriters whose names are immortalised in the realm of popular music. Brooklyn natives Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry each had budding careers as composers before they joined up in 1962, at which point the fruits of their labours became spectacular. Ace’s second collection of the couple’s output is proof that there are no words to describe their talent.
There are some beautiful confections here. The girl group phenomenon of the early 1960s was the duo’s area of expertise. Take New York’s most famous female groups of the day – the Shangri-Las, the Crystals, the Chiffons, the Jelly Beans, the Ronettes, the Dixie Cups, the Exciters (and even the elusive Butterflys); their best-remembered songs and biggest hits came from the pens of Greenwich and Barry. The Exciters’ ‘All Grown Up’, once confined to the vaults, makes the earlier Phil Spector-produced versions sound anaemic. The Chiffons track comes from their most difficult to track down album. Connie Francis released her perfect contribution to the girl group sound with the stomping ‘Don’t Ever Leave Me’ in the same year that Lesley Gore’s equally compelling ‘Look Of Love’ hit the charts. Greenwich and Barry were so good at supplying material to groups that they even recorded as one of their own, calling themselves the Raindrops. All the above-named are represented on this stuffed-to-bursting-with-pop-classics collection.
Greenwich and Barry were mainstays of the Philles label and Red Bird Records. It was no mean feat to be amongst the preferred purveyors of material to moguls such as Phil Spector, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and it would be impossible to put together a collection of either label’s hits without embracing an armful of songs from the husband and wife team. After Philles and Red Bird, the duo went on to Bert Berns’ Bang Records, where Jeff Barry had a hand in a hit for the McCoys, also here.
Amongst the other male acts on this set are Jay & the Americans, the Monkees and the Tokens; the latter just happens to be the earliest known recording of a Greenwich and Barry song. And there’s a song by Manfred Mann for which an American original version has yet to be discovered. The Shangri-Las may have had the bigger chart hit with ‘Give Us Your Blessing’ but this CD includes the original version by Ray Peterson. A track each from the composers finishes off this exuberant collection.
By Eric Charge
(acerecords. co. uk)
Rezensionen
,,Der Sampler Do Wah Diddy, Folge 1 der Greenwich-Barry-Perlen, war bereits ein Volltreffer in Sachen Brill-Building-Pop. Und die nächste Ladung mit 24 Songs (vornehmlich) aus den Sixties hält jedem Qualitätsvergleich stand. Ein Wunder ist das wirklich nicht, denn Ellie Greenwich & Jeff Barry (teilweise unter Mithilfe von Phil Spector) schüttelten unwiderstehlich ins Ohr und weiter ins Langzeitgedächtnis flutschende Klassesongs zuhauf aus dem Ärmel." (Good Times, August / September 2012)
- Tracklisting
- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
- 1 The Ronettes: Baby, I Love You
- 2 The Shangri-Las: The train from Kansas City
- 3 Lesley Gore: Look Of Love
- 4 The Monkees: She Hangs Out
- 5 Bob B. Soxx & The Blue Jeans: Not too young to get married
- 6 The Jelly Beans: I wanna love him so bad
- 7 Connie Francis: Don't Ever Leave Me
- 8 The Tokens: Sweet Laurie, Fair Laurie
- 9 The Dixie Cups: Chapel of love
- 10 Darlene Love: Wait Til My Bobby Gets Home
- 11 Sonny & Cher: Why Don't They Let Us Fall In Love
- 12 Sam Hawkins: I Know It's All Right
- 13 The Crystals: Da Doo Ron Ron (When He Walked Me Home)
- 14 The Butterflys: I Wonder
- 15 The Raindrops: That boy John
- 16 The Four Pennies: When the boy's happy (the girl's happy too)
- 17 Ray Peterson: Give us your blessing
- 18 Jay & The Americans: This is it
- 19 The Chiffons: Every boy and every girl
- 20 The Exciters: All grown up
- 21 That's all I ever want from you baby
- 22 The McCoys: I got to go back (and watch that little girl dance)
- 23 Jeff Barry: I'll Still Love You
- 24 Ellie Greenwich: Goodnight, goodnight (What's so good about it)