The Brill Building is famous for housing music industry offices and studios. Among its many tenants are production companies, writers, performers, and publishers.
The Brill Building is famous for housing music industry offices and studios. Among its many tenants are production companies, writers, performers, and publishers.
The "Brill Building Sound" may be the only subgenre of pop music named after a building, for it was in that very building, a former monolith of New York City's Garment District located at 1619 Broadway, where producer Don Kirshner placed the best and brightest songwriters of the Camelot years. They were early-Sixties mainstays, almost all duos, whose very names became emblematic of great pop songwriting: Lieber and Stoller, Goffin and King, Mann and Weil, Bacharach and David, Pomus and Shuman, Sedaka and Greenfield.