The Brill Building Sound

The Brill Building Sound Artist: Various Artists
Label: K-Tel
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Box set
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 4


UPC: 022775502527
EAN: 0022775502527
ASIN: B000008DRG


Release Date: 1993-10-25

The Brill Building Sound


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Tracks:

  1. Splish Splash - Bobby Darin
  2. Dream Lover - Bobby Darin
  3. Stupid Cupid - Connie Francis
  4. Oh! Carol - Neil Sedaka
  5. Stairway to Heaven - Neil Sedaka
  6. Breaking Up Is Hard to Do - Neil Sedaka
  7. Where the Boys Are - Connie Francis
  8. Calendar Girl - Neil Sedaka
  9. Everybody's Somebody's Fool - Connie Francis
  10. Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen - Neil Sedaka
  11. Who Put the Bomp (In the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp) - Barry Mann
  12. Hushabye - The Mystics
  13. Teenager in Love - Dion & the Belmonts
  14. Turn Me Loose
  15. I Love How You Love Me - The Paris Sisters
  16. Halfway to Paradise - Tony Orlando
  17. Take Good Care of My Baby - Bobby Vee
  18. Run to Him - Bobby Vee
  19. Bless You - Tony Orlando
  20. Will You Love Me Tomorrow - The Shirelles

Tracks:

  1. Spanish Harlem - Ben E. King
  2. Stand by Me - Ben E. King
  3. On Broadway - The Drifters
  4. Up on the Roof - The Drifters
  5. Only in America - Jay & the Americans
  6. Every Breath I Take - Gene Pitney
  7. What's a Matter Baby (Is It Hurting You) - Timi Yuro
  8. Foolish Little Girl - The Shirelles
  9. Don't Ever Change - The Crickets
  10. Crying in the Rain - The Everly Brothers
  11. I Can't Stay Mad at You - Skeeter Davis
  12. Hey Girl - Freddie Scott
  13. Oh No, Not My Baby - Maxine Brown
  14. Patches - Dickey Lee
  15. My Dad - Paul Peterson
  16. Her Royal Majesty - Darren, James
  17. Rumors - Johnny Crawford
  18. It Hurts to Be in Love - Gene Pitney

Tracks:

  1. Kind of Boy You Can't Forget - The Raindrops
  2. Do Wah Diddy Diddy - Manfred Mann, Manfred Mann
  3. When the Boy's Happy (The Girl's Happy Too) - Four Pennies
  4. It Might as Well Rain Until September - Carole King
  5. Loco-Motion - Little Eva
  6. Chains - The Cookies
  7. Keep Your Hands off My Baby - Little Eva
  8. Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby) - The Cookies
  9. I'm into Something Good - Earl-Jean
  10. Johnny Loves Me - Shelley Fabares
  11. My One and Only, Jimmy Boy - The Girlfriends
  12. He Don't Love Me - Shelley Fabares
  13. Please Don't Wake Me - The Cinderellas
  14. I Never Dreamed - The Cookies
  15. One Fine Day - The Chiffons
  16. Needles and Pins - Jackie DeShannon
  17. Chico's Girl - The Girls

Tracks:

  1. Hanky Panky - Tommy James & the Shondells
  2. Chapel of Love - The Dixie Cups
  3. I Wanna Love Him So Bad - The Jelly Beans
  4. I Wonder - The Butterflys
  5. Maybe I Know - Lesley Gore
  6. Yes I Will (I'll Be True to You) - The Hollies
  7. He's in Town - The Tokens
  8. I'm Gonna Be Strong - Gene Pitney
  9. Magic Town - The Vogues
  10. You Baby - Linda Scott
  11. Boy from New York City - The Ad Libs, The Ad Libs
  12. New York's a Lonely Town - The Trade Winds
  13. One You Can't Have - The Honeys
  14. Look of Love - Lesley Gore
  15. Out in the Streets - The Shangri-Las
  16. Kicks - Paul Revere & the Raiders
  17. Hungry - Paul Revere & the Raiders
  18. (You're My) Soul and Inspiration - The Righteous Brothers
  19. Leader of the Pack - The Shangri-Las

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Original Price - Buy It Now - USED? Your Call.......2006-11-27

At the original IN PRINT price, it's an amazing box set of an amazing time - to think of how cool it would've been to be there in a building to watch your scribblings become tunes and then become hit records right before your eyes - and to be there with fellow writers (not to mention the singers) - those days are definitely over.

If you're just starting out and you love the late 50's & early 1960's shimmering pop wall of sound (along with Phil Spector), this is an amazing 4-CD set with over 80 of the greatest pop rock tracks of all time - again staggering that these all came out of that time, era and literally - one building - definitely get this CD.

If you already have an extensive CD collection of that time, you might want to review the tracks to make sure you're not duplicating them. This set does NOT contain any demos or alt takes.

Or if you find the USED print a bit steep, here are some things to keep in mind. If you're a real big fan, you're probably better off piecing together the greatest hits packages of: Neil Sedaka, Connie Francis, The Drifters, Chiffons, Shirelles, The Righteous Brothers, Shangrai-La's etc ... since their tracks in this box are just sprinkled throughout and not complete (except for maybe Neil Sedaka's early stuff) or you'll pretty much sweep through and collect virtually all the tracks with a handful of hits of the 50's and 60's compilations. You'd be hard pressed not to swing a compilation CD of that era and get Little Eva or Ben E. King, etc ... as for the sound quality, the more recent greatest hits releases match or beat the sound quality of this box set. The only exception are the Sedaka tracks they sound better here than my NEIL SEDAKA'S ALL TIME GREATEST HITS CD but mine might be an older compilation anyway.

The only relatively rare tracks are from the Cookies or the Girlfriends and frankly, they are pretty much minor league stuff and really more for competitsts - but then I don't really need to talk you into this box set. So, really, 100% of the best tracks are all available elsewhere and also the best artists are not complete here so you'll probably want to buy their greatest hots or anthology set of that particular artist anyway.

This is not to be dismissive of the Brill Sound box set, it's a great sampling and a great set but perhaps not at the USED price as it stands now - at its original price, there's no question you should click BUY IT NOW.

5 out of 5 stars

Music Album:

  1. Surf Monsters: Past, Present & Future Surf Classics ~ Various Artists
  2. Signals ~ Rush
  3. Hazen Street ~ Hazen Street
  4. H.M.S. Fable ~ Shack
  5. I Remember ~ Audience of One
  6. Maximum Norah Jones ~ Norah Jones
  7. Miss Alex White and the Red Orchestra ~ Miss Alex White & The Red Orchestra
  8. Beguile ~ Sarah Atereth
  9. Some Things Never Change ~ Supertramp
  10. CoLAB ~ Lambchop , and Hands Off Cuba

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

Midnight Love: Ultimate Collection ~ Walter Beasley

Solo ~ Monty Alexander

Milt Jackson and Strings ~ Milt Jackson

George Wein's Newport All-Stars ~ George Wein

Best of AFRS Jubilee 137 & 93, Vol. 10 ~ Various Artists

At Disneyland ~ Firehouse Five Plus Two

Etsi Ime Ego ~ Ero

Music of the Persian Mystics ~ Zohreh Jooya

A Noite Se Iluminou ~ Jose-Acacio Santana

So Wie Ich Eigentilch Bin ~ Bernd Cluever