Brill Building
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Oct 30, 2026
Weldon Gardner-HunterHOST
But he dropped out, so maybe his fencing career never really happened, but he had a huge, massive career.
Weldon Gardner-HunterHOST
He started working in the Brill building, and of course he wrote I'm a Believer.
Weldon Gardner-HunterHOST
This is his first solo hit, Cherry Cherry, and then of course a string of massive hits to follow.
Weldon Gardner-HunterHOST
So throughout the 70s and 80s, he just kept racking up major hits like Sweet Caroline and Well, they're coming to America.
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Eric KomernickiHOST
As a matter of fact, that's a, they are
Weldon Gardner-HunterHOST
the Queens of the Hayes.
Weldon Gardner-HunterHOST
And I wouldn't, I wouldn't doubt that there is a, you know, at least if it's not direct influence, it's, it's brill building.
Weldon Gardner-HunterHOST
So there could be, there could be the idea that this is the kind of thing you have to add.
MutluHOST
Yes.
MutluHOST
But a throwback to like, you know, almost like Brill Building era, like Dionne Warwick.
MutluHOST
And, you know, these singers who... like had these amazing voices and there would be these like beautiful lush productions around them.
MutluHOST
Like she, she feels like she fits in there too, but you can't, she definitely can't be pigeonholed because it depends on what context you're hearing.
Richard ThompsonGUEST
Mm-hmm.
Richard ThompsonGUEST
working in the Brill Building or something, who's in there every day, you know, or even Rodgers and Hart or Rodgers and Hammerstein, professional songwriters who are writing at least a show a year, maybe sometimes two shows a year, and a show is, what, 16 songs or something? That's like a job.
Richard ThompsonGUEST
But it's still creative.
Richard ThompsonGUEST
They're still pushing themselves, but they're still reaching that same creative point, even though they're sitting in an industrial building creating this stuff.
SandyHOST
I know I was going to play, but I won't now, so that's okay.
SandyHOST
Before that... 16-year-old, out of the Brill Building.
SandyHOST
Oh, I don't know if she recorded this.
SandyHOST
Carole King.
SandyHOST
Yeah, absolutely the same age.
SandyHOST
Well, I don't think either of them...
SandyHOST
Well, Lou Reed wasn't in the Brill Building at 16.
SandyHOST
No,
Shaun PonsonbyHOST
So they're like, we write good songs.
Shaun PonsonbyHOST
We'll just walk up to the Brill Building, give them our songs, and they'll love us.
Shaun PonsonbyHOST
You know the Brill Building? Can you explain what the Brill Building was? It's the place where Tim Panali happened, right? God, if there was a song in the 60s.
Shaun PonsonbyHOST
It came out of there.
Shaun PonsonbyHOST
It probably came out of there.
Bernhard SchmitzHOST
Hanging out in a diner next to where the Ed Sullivan TV show was taped, he fell into conversation with some background vocalists who told him that Decker Records was scouting talent.
Bernhard SchmitzHOST
As Ingram told it, he walked straight into the famous Brill Building offices of veteran A&R man Milt Gabler and sang a cappella right in front of his desk, resulting in being signed on the spot.
Bernhard SchmitzHOST
Most likely, Ingram conflated memories here.
Bernhard SchmitzHOST
And the meeting was almost certainly set up via publisher or booking contact in the Broadway orbit rather than a cold walk-in off the street directly to Milt Gabler.
Laurie SpiegelGUEST
early eventide days and um Yeah, anyway, that was in a cool building full of studios and stuff.
Laurie SpiegelGUEST
It was kind of like an unofficial extension of the Brill Building.
Laurie SpiegelGUEST
It had a lot of creative work going on in it.
Laurie SpiegelGUEST
Anyway, Valken Films, V-A-L-K-H-N Films, not Vulcan.
Laurie SpiegelGUEST
early eventide days and um Yeah, anyway, that was in a cool building full of studios and stuff.
Laurie SpiegelGUEST
It was kind of like an unofficial extension of the Brill Building.
Laurie SpiegelGUEST
It had a lot of creative work going on in it.
Laurie SpiegelGUEST
Anyway, Valken Films, V-A-L-K-H-N Films, not Vulcan.
Henry DiltzGUEST
Elvis Presley never wrote any songs.
Henry DiltzGUEST
There were the songwriters in the Brill Building who wrote the songs, and then the singers would sing them.
Henry DiltzGUEST
Well, what happened in the late 60s was the singers became the songwriters.
Henry DiltzGUEST
You know, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Neil Young, Stephen Stills.
Paul AbbottHOST
So there's this chap, George Morton, who becomes known as George Shadow Morton.
Paul AbbottHOST
And he's been in bands and done a little bit of songwriting, but he goes to the Brill Building.
Paul AbbottHOST
He meets up with the team at Redbird Records, which is like Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich and a couple of other folk.
Paul AbbottHOST
And apparently Jeff Barry gets a bit combative with him, like, yeah, what have you written then? And he's like, well, I have, I've written songs.
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