RIP Ellie Greenwich

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http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/08/26/be-my-baby-songwriter-ellie-greenwich-dead-at-68/

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ONH3hIjO3c

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And I didn't realize she wrote PJ Proby's "Niki Hoeky" and the Shades of Blue's glorious "Oh How Happy"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKYvRx2pxrw&feature

AND... she and Jeff Barry co-produced all of Neil Diamond's early hits!

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TANC: I brought The Mink DeVille Collection to work today, which includes his great cover of the Spector/Barry/Greenwich classic "Little Girl".

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leave it to the Brits to write a really good obit:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/6100832/Ellie-Greenwich.html

Signed on a weekly salary of $100, Ellie Greenwich played another of her songs to Phil Spector, but the young producer seemed more interested in preening himself in the mirror. "Listen to me, you little prick," she snapped. "Did you come to look at yourself or to hear my songs?"

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leave it to the Brits to write a really good obit:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/6100832/Ellie-Greenwich.html

Signed on a weekly salary of $100, Ellie Greenwich played another of her songs to Phil Spector, but the young producer seemed more interested in preening himself in the mirror. "Listen to me, you little prick," she snapped. "Did you come to look at yourself or to hear my songs?"

well, cut him some slack: Phil just couldn't believe his own hair:

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and a quite nicely-written appreciation from the LA Times:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/08/appreciation-ellie-greenwich-mover-and-shaper-of-american-pop.html

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And I didn't realize she wrote PJ Proby's "Niki Hoeky" and the Shades of Blue's glorious "Oh How Happy"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKYvRx2pxrw&feature

Hmm. Edwin Starr has long claimed to have written "Oh How Happy."  My Dick Bartley comp with it credits it to a Charles Hatcher.

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And I didn't realize she wrote PJ Proby's "Niki Hoeky" and the Shades of Blue's glorious "Oh How Happy"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKYvRx2pxrw&feature

Hmm. Edwin Starr has long claimed to have written "Oh How Happy."  My Dick Bartley comp with it credits it to a Charles Hatcher.

quite possible -- I do recall that Starr claim, now that you mention it. Her first solo LP from 1968 is titled Wriiten Produced and Sung by Ellie Greenwich (or words to that effect), and both the above tunes are on it, so I made the seemingly-obvious leap.

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And I didn't realize she wrote PJ Proby's "Niki Hoeky" and the Shades of Blue's glorious "Oh How Happy"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKYvRx2pxrw&feature

Hmm. Edwin Starr has long claimed to have written "Oh How Happy."  My Dick Bartley comp with it credits it to a Charles Hatcher.

quite possible -- I do recall that Starr claim, now that you mention it. Her first solo LP from 1968 is titled Wriiten Produced and Sung by Ellie Greenwich (or words to that effect), and both the above tunes are on it, so I made the seemingly-obvious leap.

Are you thinking of "Let It Be Written, Let It Be Sung"?

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And I didn't realize she wrote PJ Proby's "Niki Hoeky" and the Shades of Blue's glorious "Oh How Happy"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKYvRx2pxrw&feature

Hmm. Edwin Starr has long claimed to have written "Oh How Happy."  My Dick Bartley comp with it credits it to a Charles Hatcher.

quite possible -- I do recall that Starr claim, now that you mention it. Her first solo LP from 1968 is titled Wriiten Produced and Sung by Ellie Greenwich (or words to that effect), and both the above tunes are on it, so I made the seemingly-obvious leap.

Are you thinking of "Let It Be Written, Let It Be Sung"?

no, that was her 2nd LP, circa '72, which was marketed as her answer to Tapestry.  They're available as one CD these days:

http://www.amazon.com/Composes-Produces-Sings-Written-Sung/dp/B00000I08D/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1251469586&sr=1-1