Episode 300: Modcast #300: Eighth Anniversary - The Brill Bldg. Sound

It's been eight crazy years I've been producing the modcasts.
When I started the show was pretty basic and the focus was on the
music. The show is still pretty basic and the focus is still on
the music. It seemed fitting to celebrate the eighth anniversary
with a stroll through a musical treasure trove. The Brill
Building. 

The Brill building is a big old art-deco thing that has one of
the greatest music stories you could imagine. From the 1930s on
the Brill Building has been at the center of American music; home
to producers, writers, publishers, and musicians who all work and
collaborate together.

“Expressing the optimism and outrage of the early civil rights
movement, [the Brill Building catalog] amalgamated black, white,
and Latino sounds before multiculturalism became a concept, much
less a cliché, and integrated audiences before America desegregated
its schools. It helped create a youth market – teenagers were a new
breed of human being and a brand-new consumer category – and
trafficked in teen idols from whom Justin Timberlake and the
Simpson sisters directly descend.” -- Ken Emerson, Always Magic In
The Air: The Bomp And Brilliance Of The Brill Building Era

The Brill launched the careers of the likes of Burt Bacharach,
Paul Simon, Sonny Bono, Carol King, Neil Diamond, Paul Anka and
many more. The Brill sound was made famous by Dionne Warwick,
Lesley Gore, The Monkees, Frank Sinatra, Sonny & Cher, and
many more. So, it seemed like as good a time as any to finally
pay tribute to the Brill Building Sound.

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