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Ellie Greenwich: Leader Of The Pack

Bob Stanley, MOJO, November 2009

BARRY MANN and Cynthia Weil were the social conscience, Gerry Goffin and Carole King the most tortured, but it was Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry who wrote the most immediate, effervescent and popular hits in the Brill Building canon, songs including 'Da Doo Ron Ron', 'Chapel Of Love', 'Do Wah Diddy Diddy' and 'I Can Hear Music'.

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