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What was the 'Brill Building Sound?'

The Brill Building's name has been widely adopted as a shorthand term for a broad and influential stream of American mainstream popular song which enjoyed great commercial success in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s. By 1962 the Brill Building contained 165 music businesses: a musician could find a publisher and printer, cut a demo, promote the record, and cut a deal with radio promoters, all within this one building. Among the hundreds of hits written by this group are Leiber and Stoller's "Yakety Yak", Shuman and Pomus' "Save The Last Dance For Me", Bacharach and David's "The Look of Love", Sedaka and Greenfield's "Calendar Girl", King and Goffin's "The Loco-Motion", Mann and Weil's "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" and Spector, Greenwich and Barry's "River Deep Mountain High".

This news arrived on: 05/02/2008

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