BRILL BUILDING HOUR - 675 - THE AL RANDALL SHOW

 This episode explores the iconic Brill Building era — the songwriting hub that produced some of the most enduring hits of the 1960s. From polished pop to soulful ballads, this collection highlights the artists and writers who turned New York’s publishing houses into a hit‑making machine. A curated journey through one of music’s most influential creative centers. 

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Jo Ann Campbell – Bobby, Bobby, Bobby

Herb Alpert – This Guy’s in Love With You

Ruth Brown – Lucky Lips

Gene Pitney – I’m Gonna Be Strong

The Orchids – That Boy Is Messing Up My Mind

Freddie Scott – Hey Girl

The Chiffons – He’s So Fine

Bobby Vee – Run to Him

Simon & Garfunkel – Mrs. Robinson

Tony Orlando – Talkin’ About You

The Righteous Brothers – See That Girl

Donna Loren – Just a Little Girl

The Troggs – Wild Thing

Perry Como – Magic Moments

The Drifters – In the Park

Bertell Dache – Not Just Tomorrow, but Always

The Bandwagon – Breakin’ Down the Walls of Heartache

Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders – A Groovy Kind of Love

Adam Wade – Rain From the Skies

Barry Mann – Teenage Has‑Been

Johnny Crawford – Proud

Dusty Springfield – What Good Is I Love You?

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:01

Ladies and gentlemen, cowboys and Indians, dogs and cats, live from New York City, it's the Al Randall Show. Live from New York City, welcome to the Brill Building Hour, where the heartbeat of American pop was written one floor at a time. For the next 60 minutes, we're stepping inside 1619 Broadway, the legendary hit factory, where Carol King, Jerry Goffin, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weill, Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, Neil Sadaka, Lieber and Stoller, and so many others shaped the sound of a generation. You'll hear the stories behind the songs, the writers behind the hits, the labels that broke them, and the artists who carried them up the charts. It's melody, harmony, craft, and pure New York songwriting genius. All born in the Brille Building and still echoing through pop music today. This is the Brill Building Hour, where every record has a story and every story has a soundtrack.

SPEAKER_19 1:19

Bobby, Bobby, Bobby. Now don't you know that love may pass you by In less than it takes to wake it high? Bobby, Bobby, Bobby Kiss me or I'll die. If you were made of iron, you would rust. Now put your arms around me or I ride on that high poppy. Shout Bobby. Try a little hack to find a way, Bobby.

SPEAKER_21 2:11

Everything that's in your heart, Bobby, Bobby, Bobby.

SPEAKER_20 2:25

It doesn't really matter who cut who. As long as we're together, each day true. Bobby, Bobby, Bobby.

unknown 2:37

I love you.

SPEAKER_04 2:44

You make me cry, Bobby.

SPEAKER_19 2:49

Shut Bobby. Try a little hug.

unknown 2:58

You find a way, Bobby.

SPEAKER_21 3:07

Everything that's in your heart.

SPEAKER_20 3:14

Bobby, Bobby, Poppy. When we're old and grey, it doesn't really matter who cut who. As long as we're together, each day through.

SPEAKER_04 4:51

When you love, I can love you.

SPEAKER_10 5:02

I can I show you. I think you make you mind.

SPEAKER_04 5:37

Tell me that. Is it so? Don't let me know my hand.

SPEAKER_03 8:20

My mama told me, honey, you've got more than other girls. Now you may not be good looking, but you soon wear diamond clips. And you never have to wear it. Cause you've got lucky lips. Lucky lips are always kissing. Lucky lips are never blue. Lucky lips will always find a pair of lips that will be true. I don't need a falling clover. Run its foot off with love charm. Oh, with lucky lips, I'll always have a pella in my arm. Oh, with lucky lips, I'll always have a pair of my arm. I never get heartbroken. No, I'll never get the blues. And if I play that game of love, I know I just can't lose. When they spin that wheel of fortune, all I do is give my chips. And I know I picked a winner. Cause I've got lucky lips. Lucky lips are always kissing. Lucky lips are never blue. Lucky lips will always find a pair of lips that will be true. I don't need a fully clover. Rabbit foot of good luck charms. With lucky lips, I'll always have a failure in my heart.

SPEAKER_00 10:00

With lucky lips, I'll always have a failure in my Brill Building was purchased by 1619 Broadway Realty LLC in June 2013 and underwent renovation during the 2010s. A CVS pharmacy opened on the first two floors of the building in 2019. Now back to more music from the Brill Building, right here on Oldie's Radio Live, 365 New York City.

SPEAKER_06 11:04

I'll believe with you to stay. So I'm gonna be strong and pretend I don't care.

SPEAKER_07 11:52

I'm gonna be strong and stand the as all that I am born up in front and then you can almost take it on back and you take it to the end. I'll just find you a line.

SPEAKER_13 16:40

Something deep inside of me is going to die if you say so if this is goodbye.

SPEAKER_04 17:00

Oh hey girl, let's get me to how am I supposed to exist without you?

SPEAKER_13 17:26

Now don't put me on what's gonna happen to me when you grow how will I live how can I go?

unknown 17:49

How can I go?

SPEAKER_13 18:16

Now sit yourself down.

SPEAKER_04 18:20

I'm not ashamed to get down the ground and go to stay some more spot forever. I just get away, I just get away, to be home is on our week, I need one, I don't need that yet to make a mo.

SPEAKER_14 20:34

If you found another guy who satisfies you more than I do, run to him. I'll step aside. If you think his lips can kiss you better than my lips can kiss you, run to him. Forget my prize.

SPEAKER_01 22:00

Happier than I can make you wrong My two bride If it's me you want to love you I'll be more than what I do love you till your life is done but darling if I'm not the one that run to Uh Bobby V with Ronda Ham in 1961 on the Liberty Record label written by Jerry Goffman and Jack Heller Building Heavyweight You can practically hear the echo on those nine floor demo rooms in every recorded episode Run Ronnie handful of writers and find early into a soundtrack I'm gonna get on the graduate Mrs.

SPEAKER_09 23:41

Robinson Jesus loves you all as you will know God as you please Mrs. Robinson We like to get about your help you learn to help your whole self look around you always see us sympathetic eyes You stroll around around until you feel it all ideas to you Mrs.

SPEAKER_04 24:31

Robinson Jesus loves you more than you will know whoa woah God bless you please Mrs.

SPEAKER_09 24:41

Robinson and all the place for holds a break AAS for the whole case It's a little secret just there's a high kids go the same Jesus loves you all that you will go as you please let's grab the sun floor on a Sunday afternoon going to the candy state shallow down when you got to choose every way you look at it you know Where have you gone Joe the magic or they should turn to slowly as to you What's that you say this is a robin son Joe Joe has left them all away, I'm gonna be able to do it.

SPEAKER_00 27:23

The term has also become a metonym for the period in which those songwriting teams flourished. Now, back to more music from the Brill Building, right here on Oldie's Radio Live, 365, New York City.

SPEAKER_16 27:38

Hi everybody. Did I ever tell you I was in love with the most beautiful girl in the world? With big bright eyes.

SPEAKER_07 27:48

We tried to be bored, Holly.

SPEAKER_16 27:50

Oh, and man should see her hair.

SPEAKER_03 27:53

We tried it before, Holly.

SPEAKER_16 27:56

And like the biggest, most beautiful, sweetest smile you ever did see.

SPEAKER_05 28:01

Oh, we heard it before, Homie. I'm afraid of getting pretty tired of me. Cause I can talk the whole through.

SPEAKER_04 28:23

I can't talk about you.

SPEAKER_05 28:29

And you with you, beautiful, and you want to talk about you, and you with it, sweet, sweet soul. I can't stop talking about the baby. Each time I'm telling you this loud to you are Yaku yakki Availab isn't true.

SPEAKER_17 28:51

Well that we tell you, I don't care. I'll keep on talking to me.

SPEAKER_05 29:12

I can't stand it along at the yellow big about you, you beautiful, you want to talk about you, you sweet.

SPEAKER_01 29:58

Talk about you, yeah, you want to talk about Tony Orlando there long before the yellow ribbons cutting Brill style sides as a teenager for epic records with talking about you. The Brill building was full of kids like him. Seventeen, eighteen-year-olds walking into offices with a dream and walking out with a demo. A little blue-eyed soul from the righteous brother.

SPEAKER_04 30:34

See that girl. Look at her girl. That's something you don't see every day now. Dig those eyes, ain't they a prize? They sure can get you in a hando. Look at that crazy smile I bet you can be she was my wife, and she something so that guy right by her side, he's feeling bad and is showing look and see that could have been me. Would you believe I'd gone all letters away and I tell myself I'm okay but it just has me when I see when I see the sea We'll see the girl to see that girl nineteen sixty-six on the verb of a record label.

SPEAKER_01 33:39

And even though the Righteous Brothers were known for their filter wall of the world or the writers and the publishers and the arrangers, and everybody crossed their hands in those in the town hallway. Just a little girl.

SPEAKER_04 34:23

I'm just a little girl, but I feel a woman's love. I'm just a little girl, but I feel a woman's love for you. These arms of my know how to hold you. My lips know just what they should do. And if you only let me love you, you see I'm not too for you. I'm just a little girl, but I feel a woman's love. I'm just a little girl, but I feel a woman's love for you. But I'm doing love about true love to make you feel just like a man. I'm just a living girl. But I feel a woman's love. I'm just a living girl. But I feel a woman.

SPEAKER_00 37:13

The Look of Love, Back Rack David, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, Sadaka Greenfield, Devil in Disguise, Giant Bomb K, The Loco Motion, Gopin King, Supernatural Thing, Harris Fire, Gwen Guthrie, We've Gotta Get Out of This Place, Man Veal, and River Deep, Mountain High, Spectre Greenwich Barry. Now, back to more music from the Brille Building, right here on Oldie's Radio Live, 365, New York City.

SPEAKER_04 37:49

Wow thing. You make my heart sing. You make everything. Wow thing.

SPEAKER_15 38:08

Wow thing, I think I love you.

SPEAKER_05 38:13

But I wanna know for sure.

SPEAKER_15 38:18

Come on, home and tell you. I love you.

SPEAKER_04 38:39

You make my heart say one thing, think you move me.

SPEAKER_15 39:28

You move me.

SPEAKER_04 40:01

Wild thing. Oh, come on, wild thing.

SPEAKER_01 40:12

Trogs, what a classic wild thing. Before that, Donna Lauren with just a little girl written by the unstoppable duo. Jerry Goffman and Carol King. And Carol King was banging on the demos on that famous upright piano herself. Later ended up in a rock and roll hall of fame in Cleveland, Ohio. Yeah, man. So let's move it along. Here's Harry Como with magic moment.

SPEAKER_04 40:55

Well to Heart Mag I'll never forget the moment we kissed the knight of the hay ride. The way that we hug to try to keep warm while taking a sleigh right back. Well to our camp. Time can be great filled with love.

SPEAKER_13 42:04

The telephone call that tied up the line for hours and hours. The Saturday dance I got up the nerve to send you some flowers. The time that the floor fell out of my car when I put the clutch down.

SPEAKER_04 43:04

The Halloween hop when everyone came in on a disguise as much.

SPEAKER_08 44:39

And bring along your radio and listen to your favorite DJ And just lie there on the grass until the world until you laugh away. All your troubles is happy. There is no use killing the blue. There are too many happy things that you can do.

SPEAKER_01 46:11

They practically lived on the charge.

SPEAKER_17 46:53

But there's no reason to tell me. I love now, and I'm gonna feel that way. Not just tomorrow, but all the way.

SPEAKER_04 47:20

Not just a moment to play at your love is true. Not just too much, but always so many people at the top.

SPEAKER_17 47:54

They down each other and love When it might have been riding their heart.

SPEAKER_04 48:58

But all the way Not just tomorrow, by all way Not just tomorrow, by all way Like a man for the wall party I can never take it, bring it on the pillar You throw the wall fire Big on the field I don't bring it back for the build up here on the wallet, baby. I'm a common job, just break it on the wall of heart, baby, got to take it off. Take it on the wall, I get the baby on the carpet on the wall, I get the baby on the wall, take it on the wall, all makeup, take it up, take the bottom wall, all day, no, quick When I'm feeling blue, all I have to do is take a look at you.

SPEAKER_10 51:59

Then I'm not so blue.

SPEAKER_04 52:01

When you're close to me, I can feel your heartbeat, I can feel you great. Wouldn't you agree?

SPEAKER_10 52:14

Baby two and we got a groovy and a line. We've got a groovy and a lot. Anytime you want to, you can turn me on to anything you want to, anytime I know when I taste your lips, oh, I stop to show up, can't control the quiz.

SPEAKER_04 52:46

Wouldn't you agree? Maybe you and me got a groovy kind of love. We got a groovy kind of love When I'm in your arms, looking since you matter, if you're gonna shadow, I don't care. Wouldn't you agree? Maybe you and me got a groovy kind of love.

SPEAKER_10 53:27

We got a groovy kind of love.

SPEAKER_01 53:32

We got a groovy kind of love. Wayne Fontana and the mind benders, groovy kind of love. Let's keep things rolling, man. Here's Adam Wade, rain from the sky.

SPEAKER_02 53:57

Ever since you went away, every day is such a cloudy day, and I don't know if it's rain from the skies or tears from my eyes falling on my face, uh rolling down my chin. Since you've gone, I'm never won. Always in the middle of a storm, and I don't know if it's rain from the skies, or tears from my eyes falling on my face, uh rolling down my cheek. All I know is I love you, and if I live forever, I'll be loving you still. You will always be just everything to me, so hurry back and bring the sun. Let me be your one and only one with just one kiss. Stop the rain from the skies, and tears from my eyes from falling on my face and rolling down my cheek. All I know is I love you, and if I live forever, I'll be loving you still, and you will always be just everything to me. So hurry back and bring the sun. Let me be your one and only one with just one chest. Stop the rain from the skies, and tears from my eyes from falling on my face and rollin' down my cheek, rolling down, roll, rolling down my cheek, rolling down roll yes, they're rolling down my cheek, rolling down, yes, they're gonna just saw three.

SPEAKER_12 57:03

My mother bought one, my father bought one, and I bought one They call me a teenage husband, they say I'm all washed up, and that may be true because theme is so fickle. But I remember only last year when I sang who put the bar, there wasn't a dry eye in the audience. And the girls, the girls would become hysterical and take my sweaters and my suits and even my socks with souvenirs. And now I'd like to ask just one thing. Would all those girls please return those shoots and sweaters to me? Because you know, girls, that's stealing. And besides, it's gonna be a cold, cold return. My fans deserved a million. My mother's my fan, my father's my fan, and I still think I'm kinda cute. Well, I guess I am a teenage has been. But that show biz for you. You're a big star overnight, and before you can say Papa Mau Mau, you're a nobody again. And I know I'm gonna make it again, I just know it. I only last night in my spare time. I wrote 133 new hit songs, and I gotta record it fast. Cause I don't have any time to lose. After all, I've gotta face facts. These are the twilight years for me. I'm almost over the hill. My second one.

SPEAKER_01 59:00

My second very near one of the greatest songwriters on the broad era.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:06

You'll never leave her. But I must say, a man ain't nothing but a man. Why do I need you when we can't be together? What good if I want you when you're passing me back?

unknown 1:03:29

Oh, I can't give up say I love you for your mother. What good is I love you when you're saying goodbye?

SPEAKER_04 1:03:43

Yeah, no one else ever made me so very happy. Very happy when we're together, everything's alright. Alone, it is in my heart, so crying. Someone's telling me a lie. Why do I need you when we can be together? What good if I want you when you're passing me back? Oh, I can't give us say I love you, but good I want you when you say goodbye. Why should I love you? Oh my god, get a battery now, baby. When we can be together, why could it not you?