The Shangri-Las
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Interview by Tony Scherman, Rock's Backpages audio, Fall 1993
The legendary songwriter/producer takes us back to his days in the Brill Building: the Shangri-Las' '(Remember) Walking In The Sand'; the people who surrounded him: Leiber & Stoller, Jeff Barry & Ellie Greenwich, George Goldner, Cynthia Weill & Barry Mann, and Seymour Stein; Kama Sutra and Red Bird records; the insanity of the scene, and his personal style. He also talks about his Brooklyn and Long Island childhood, his alcoholism, his break from music and surviving his aneurysm.
File format: mp3; file size: 118.3mb, interview length: 2h 03' 14" sound quality: ** (background noise)
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Report and Interview by Barry Cain, Record Mirror, 18 November 1978
BARRY CAIN threads his way through the decaying labyrinth known as New York, finds the other faces behind Debbie Harry, unearths two of the "fabulous" ...
The Shangri-Las: It's motor bikes next for the seagull girls
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 31 October 1964
SHANGRI-LAS hit town and talk to Chris Welch ...
The Shangri-Las: Shangris' Sensational Seagull Sounds
Profile and Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 31 October 1964
THE LATEST gimmick in pop discs: sound effects! ...
Report by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 9 January 1965
HOW DO you feel about death? In pop music, I mean. Death is inevitable for all of us, that's certain. But there's a great deal ...
The Hit Factory: New York's Brill Building
Retrospective and Interview by David Kamp, Vanity Fair, November 2001
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I spent much of 2001 interviewing the songwriters, machers, and artists of the Brill Building era for this oral history. It was the ...
Retrospective by David Quantick, New Musical Express, 17 September 1983
Remember (walkin' in the sand) with the Shangri-Las ...
Interview by Lenny Kaye, Melody Maker, 9 March 1974
Part two of the Shadow Morton story by Lenny Kaye ...
The Supremes, the Righteous Brothers, the Beau Brummels et al: Cow Palace, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Mike Gormley, The Ottawa Journal, 27 February 1965
Righteous Sound Shakes 'Frisco ...
Shangri Las: A Teenage Melodrama
Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Let It Rock, December 1974
SHALL WE DANCE? ...
New Albums From Aretha Franklin, Mose Allison, Love et al
Review by Peter Jones, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 25 February 1967
NEW US SOUNDS INCLUDE Soul (Joe Tex & Aretha), Cool (Andy Williams) Beat (Shangri-Las, Love) Jazz (Mose Allison) ...
The Shangri-Las: The Soul Sound from Sheepshead Bay
Profile and Interview by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 23 June 1966
THEY STARTED with a twinkle in their eyes and leatherette on their hips. Out there on the stage of the Brooklyn Fox, with Murray the ...
Interview by Ronnie Oberman, Evening Star, The (Washington DC), 18 December 1965
DANVILLE, VA. — Those are real tears being shed in the Shangri-Las' 'I Can Never Go Home Anymore'. ...
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