Jeff Barry is an American songwriter. [4]
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Known as the author of such hits of the 1960s as “ Da Doo Ron Ron ”, “ Be My Baby ”, “ Leader of the Pack ” and “ River Deep, Mountain High ”. (He wrote all the above songs in collaboration with his then wife, Ellie Greenwich. [4]
Biography
Born and lived in New York.
At the beginning of his career, he wanted to become famous as a singer. And then he barely made ends meet [4] .
Everything changed in 1962 when at a party he met Ellie Greenwich , his future wife and future co-author of songwriting. They began to write songs together and once went to audition in the famous “songwriting factory” by Don Kirscher - the Britt Building in New York [4] .
There, Ellie Greenwich singing from the next room was heard by Lieber and Stoller [5] . They invited Barry and Greenwich to work on Phil Spector 's label Philles Records , where Barry and Greenwich wrote and arranged songs for a number of music groups. Among the hits that they wrote for Spector at the time are “ Da Do Ron Ron ” and “ Be My Baby ” [4] .
Then Liber and Stoller founded their label Redbird Records , and Barry and Greenwich began to work there permanently [4] .
All the 1960s passed for them in writing hits. Among their most famous songs are “ Chapel of Love ” ( Dixie Cups , 1964), “ Leader of the Pack ” ( Shangri-Las , 1964), “ River Deep, Mountain High ” ( Ike and Tina Turners , 1966) and “ I Can Hear Music ”( Beach Boys , 1969) [4] [6] .
When their marriage broke up, they stopped working together. Greenwich began working as a session vocalist, and Barry got a permanent job as a producer on A&M Records . There in the 1970s, he worked with such famous performers as Neil Diamond, The Monkees, Van Morrison, but his success as a producer with his former success as a songwriter was no longer compared [4] .
Notes
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Internet Broadway Database - 2000.
- ↑ Discogs - 2000.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Jeff Barry - Biography & History . AllMusic . Date of treatment March 9, 2017.
- ↑ Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich . The History of Rock and Roll. Date of treatment March 9, 2017.
- ↑ Ellie Greenwich - Biography & History . AllMusic . Date of treatment March 9, 2017.
Links
- Jeff Barry on AllMusic