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Das Brill Building ist ein Bürogebäude in der Nähe des Broadway an der Eighth Avenue 1619 in Manhattan ( New York City) – nördlich vom Times Square – in dem im Jahre 1962 insgesamt 165 Musikverlage unter einem Dach vereinigt waren und dieser Umstand die ungenauen Ausdrücke „Brill Building Pop“ bzw. „Brill Building Sound“ prägte. Inhaltsverzeichnis.
Brill Building (also known as Brill Building pop or the Brill Building sound) is a subgenre of pop music that took its name from the Brill Building in New York City, where numerous teams of professional songwriters penned material for girl groups and teen idols during the early 1960s.
23. Okt. 2023 · Discover the pop music legacy of the Brill Building, a New York office block that housed some of the finest songwriting teams of the 20th century. From Elvis to the Beatles, from Dusty Springfield to the Carpenters, here are 30 classics from the Brill Building era.
Located at 1619 Broadway in New York City, the Brill Building was the hub of professionally written rock and roll. As the 1960s equivalent of Tin Pan Alley, it reemphasized a specialized division of labour in which professional songwriters worked closely with producers and artists-and-repertoire.
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4. Aug. 2023 · Thanks to a loose collective of composers, lyricists, music publishers, and bands, the Brill Building at 1619 Broadway in New York City - as well as nearby 1650 Broadway - gave rise to a sound that would shape popular music of the late 1950s and early to mid-1960s.
The Brill Building isn't just an art deco structure in midtown Manhattan — it’s also the name of a musical genre. Throughout the early and mid-1960s, the “Brill Building sound” became synonymous with groundbreaking pop music.
Numerous teams of professional songwriters worked at the Brill Building -- a block of music publishing houses in New York City -- writing songs for artists as diverse as the Coasters, the Drifters, the Shangri-Las, the Ronettes, Neil Sedaka, and Connie Francis.
