Phil Spector

The Twelve Days of Christmas – A Dozen Holiday Classics by Jewish Songwriters

by M.C. Antil on December 12, 2012

Adam Sandler may have once rued the dearth of great Hanukkah songs, but the same can’t be said of great Christmas songs — especially Christmas songs penned by Jewish songwriters.  Here’s a list of twelve of the best, not to mention favorites of mine. I’ll Be Home for Christmas A song with something of an uncertain genealogy.  But […]

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Song of the Day – Joe Cocker’s “Feelin’ Alright”

by M.C. Antil on November 30, 2012

Over the course of the past few years, many pop music insiders, fans and geeks have done their best to label them as the Wrecking Crew; the stable of ferociously talented studio musicians and sidemen that producers Quincy Jones, Phil Spector, Lou Adler, Lee Hazelwood, Brian Wilson and their ilk used to regularly use on […]

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Song of the Day: Jay and the Americans’ “Only in America”

by M.C. Antil on December 2, 2010

M.C. Antil’s Song of the Day — December 2, 2010 A daily snapshot of songs you might not know…but should. Growing up on Upper West Side of Manhattan, Cynthia Weil dreamed of one day becoming a triple-threat actor, singer and dancer.  But while still in her teens, she discovered her real talent was writing lyrics […]

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Song of the Day: Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood’s “Some Velvet Morning”

by M.C. Antil on October 25, 2010

Song of the Day — October 27, 2010 A daily snapshot of songs you might not know…but should. Most anyone with any semblance of musical history knows about Phil Spector’s “Wall of Sound” — that signature production technique that employed dozens of musicians to produce dense layers of sound and melody that could instill in […]

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