The Brill Building, Songwriters and Dreamgirls

The Brill Building, located at 1619 Broadway in the heart of New York's music district, is a name synonymous with an approach to songwriting that changed the course of music.

Don Kirshner and Aldon Music

George "Shadow" Morton                           Phil Spector

The Songwriters

Goffin and King	Mann and Weil
Greenfield and Sedaka	Barry and Greenwich

Pomus and Shuman

Leiber and Stoller

Brill Building Jukebox

Girl-groups.com takes you back to those days, to the fab era of early 1960s girl groups. Most people can remember the Supremes, the Ronettes, and the Shangri-Las. But there were actually hundreds of artists, both groups and solo singers, who were part of the girl-group era from 1960-1966.

Brill Building	The Chantels	The Cookies
The Crystals	Lesley Gore (It's my party and I'll cry if I want to)	The Pixies
The Supremes eneded up being the epitome of girl groups (After 1963 when Motown came into being)		The Blossoms with Darlene Love
Martha and The Vandellas	Shirelles	Shirelles
The Ronettes (Ronnie married Phil Spector)	large view Ronettes	large view Ronettes
large view Ronettes

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