| Contents |
The original cool cats -- A Broadway divided -- Lonely avenue -- "My daughter bought it, what are you going to do about it?" -- Partners in chutzpah -- The young lovers -- Putting the bomp in the bomp, bomp, bomp -- In the garden of Aldon -- "It was just Jewish Latin" -- Baby talk -- At work in the Elvis atelier -- The magician and the mensch -- Selling out -- Seesaw -- Double trouble -- Golden girls -- "Somethin' died" -- Swinging London -- From the Monkees to Thomas Mann. |
| Abstract |
During the late 1950s and early 1960s, after the shock of Elvis Presley and before the Beatles spearheaded the British Invasion, fourteen gifted young songwriters huddled in midtown Manhattan's legendary Brill Building and a warren of offices a bit farther uptown and composed some of the most beguiling and enduring entries in the Great American Songbook. This is the first thorough history of these renowned songwriters-tunesmiths who melded black, white, and Latino sounds, integrated audiences before America desegregated its schools, and brought a new social consciousness to pop music. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-316), discography (pages 317-320), and index. |
| LCCN | 2005054692 |
| ISBN | 0670034568 |
