Howard Greenfield

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Howard Greenfield

American songwriter

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The Brill Building
Assembly-Line Pop
…Neil Sedaka (who teamed with Howard Greenfield), Gene Pitney, and Bobby Darin also had careers composing Brill Building pop. On the other hand, Aldon writer King went on to achieve stardom as a singer-songwriter in the 1970s.
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…Neil Sedaka (who teamed with Howard Greenfield), Gene Pitney, and Bobby Darin also had careers composing Brill Building pop. On the other hand, Aldon writer King went on to achieve stardom as a singer-songwriter in the 1970s.
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Neil Sedaka
Early life
…Sedaka was 13, he met Howard Greenfield, a 16-year-old aspiring poet and lyricist, whose family lived in the same apartment building as Sedaka’s. Greenfield visited the Sedaka family apartment after his mother, who had heard Sedaka playing at a Catskills hotel, told him about Sedaka’s piano skills. The meeting between…
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…Sedaka was 13, he met Howard Greenfield, a 16-year-old aspiring poet and lyricist, whose family lived in the same apartment building as Sedaka’s. Greenfield visited the Sedaka family apartment after his mother, who had heard Sedaka playing at a Catskills hotel, told him about Sedaka’s piano skills. The meeting between…
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