Ellie Greenwich

[Jim Nasium]

I am surprised that the passing of Ellie Greenwich has not popped up here, she wrote some of the greatest songs to come out of the USA from the famous Brill Building in New York in the 60s, Check out the link.

http://www.shsu.edu/~lis_fwh/book/brill_building/support/Greenwich2.htm

[charlene]

I was going to post it the other day and then I got sidetracked..(I'm easily sidetracked these days).
she wrote some great stuff..

[Auburn Annie]

Sorry, I posted it elsewhere (Mad Men discussion forum re 60s music) She was a force, for sure.

[johnfowles]

This reminded me I used to have her vinyl album "Let It Be Written, Let It Be Sung"

http://homepage2.nifty.com/backpagerecords/EllieGreenwich.jpg
It might be here with me now in the limited collection of heavy albums I imported here in 2000 , many of which are awaiting digitising into CDs if only I could find the time
some that I have already replaced by pukka CDs are:-
Jaki Whitren Raw But Tender
http://www.anthologyrecordings.com/images_cat/42_1_300.jpg
Peggy Lee with George Shearing
Beauty And The Beat
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41005EX82QL._SS400_.jpg
Plus a pair by Lesley Duncan
http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~megajazz/2009/pics/Sing%20Children%20Sing%20_%20Lesley%20Duncan.jpg
http://cover7.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/Large/39/436939.jpg

and the very best of a one time pop and film star called Elvis Presley
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oZ-5a0hfx8I/SSxZU1aD8GI/AAAAAAAADFU/IoS4NJHyASw/s400/500_11.jpg
whilst on this subject another little known singer who everybody has frequently heard singing is
Marni Nixon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marni_Nixon)
Never heard (of) her? Come now you must have heard Deborrah Kerr singing in The King and I and
Audrey Hepburn in My fair Lady not to mention Natalie Wood in West Side Story?
Wrong!!
Marni "dubbed the singing voices of film actresses in The King and I (http://www.corfid.com/wiki/The_King_and_I_(film)), West Side Story (http://www.corfid.com/wiki/West_Side_Story_(film)) and My Fair Lady (http://www.corfid.com/wiki/My_Fair_Lady_(film))"
and she is now 79

[Jim Nasium]

I guess most of us have heard of Marnie Nixon, Sir John, if my memory serves me well she is the mother of singer/songwriter Andrew(Oh, What a Lonely Boy)Gold.