Hitmakers: The Teens Who Stole Pop Music
COMING SOON!
They sold their wares at the Brill Building, churning out pop classics like 'Up On The Roof' and Walk On By'. Carol King, Burt Bacharach, Neil Sedaka et al: the hitmaking teens.
Hitmakers: The Teens who Stole Pop Music
"You've lost That Lovin' feeling." "Up on the Roof." "Breaking Up is Hard to Do." "Leader of the Pack." "Save the Last Dance for me." "Walk on by." "Hound Dog."
They're the songs you grew up with-and the people who wrote them were barely grown themselves. This first segment of A&E Biography's Pop Goes the Music week takes an in-depth and unprecedented look at a group of ambitious teenagers who became lasting legends. They were all Jewish, almost all from New York, and they all got their start or reached their peak at a place called the Brill Building.
HITMAKERS: THE TEENS WHO STOLE POP MUSIC tracks the transition from Tin Pan Alley to Teen Pan Alley. A creative revolution led by Carole King, Bobby Darin, Neil Sedaka, Burt Bacharach and others--a movement that weathered the British Invasion, Vietnam, Motown, Dylan, divorce, drugs, disillusionment, and still resulted in hundreds of classic pop songs.
You'll hear stories from over three dozen interviewees. Legendary engineer and producer Tom Dowd talks about the "kids" who used to come by after school, peddling demos for the R&B acts of the day. Don Kirshner tells of the humble beginnings of Aldon Music, where the careers of those "kids"--King, Sedaka, Gerry Goffin, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil and many others-were launched. And the kids themselves talk about Aldon's family atmosphere, until changing times and corporate interests forced them to, in Gerry Goffin's words, "grow up."
You'll also hear the songs, over 40 of them, with rare and classic performance clips of the Righteous Brothers, the Ronettes, the Shangri-La's, the Shirelles, and plenty more. Never before seen home movies present a poignant look at both the personal and professional lives of the musicians and the songwriters.
"You've lost That Lovin' feeling." "Up on the Roof." "Breaking Up is Hard to Do." "Leader of the Pack." "Save the Last Dance for me." "Walk on by." "Hound Dog."
They're the songs you grew up with-and the people who wrote them were barely grown themselves. This first segment of A&E Biography's Pop Goes the Music week takes an in-depth and unprecedented look at a group of ambitious teenagers who became lasting legends. They were all Jewish, almost all from New York, and they all got their start or reached their peak at a place called the Brill Building.
HITMAKERS: THE TEENS WHO STOLE POP MUSIC tracks the transition from Tin Pan Alley to Teen Pan Alley. A creative revolution led by Carole King, Bobby Darin, Neil Sedaka, Burt Bacharach and others--a movement that weathered the British Invasion, Vietnam, Motown, Dylan, divorce, drugs, disillusionment, and still resulted in hundreds of classic pop songs.
You'll hear stories from over three dozen interviewees. Legendary engineer and producer Tom Dowd talks about the "kids" who used to come by after school, peddling demos for the R&B acts of the day. Don Kirshner tells of the humble beginnings of Aldon Music, where the careers of those "kids"--King, Sedaka, Gerry Goffin, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil and many others-were launched. And the kids themselves talk about Aldon's family atmosphere, until changing times and corporate interests forced them to, in Gerry Goffin's words, "grow up."
You'll also hear the songs, over 40 of them, with rare and classic performance clips of the Righteous Brothers, the Ronettes, the Shangri-La's, the Shirelles, and plenty more. Never before seen home movies present a poignant look at both the personal and professional lives of the musicians and the songwriters.
Bio is a registered trademark of A&E Television Networks | Privacy Policy
| Terms & Conditions
| FAQ