This is how kids do it, isn’t it?
Burble, burble, broble, brother!
Right? Just sounds until they work out which are actually words?
Among the most successful songs that he has co-written in his career are “Do Wah Diddy Diddy”, “Da Doo Ron Ron”, “Then He Kissed Me”,
Takes some longer than others perhaps?
Be bop a lula she’s my baby
Be bop a lula I don’t mean maybe…
Looking at Mr Barry’s resume, reminds me that there’s quite a reservoir of reasonable quality music by “proper” songwriters that emanate from late sixties and early seventies cartoons ( Archie, Scooby Doo, Josie etc) as well as shows such as The Monkees and ( shudder ) The Partridge Family.
Indeed so. “Sugar Sugar” is indeed bubblegum pop but it’s a cracking little 3 minutes of bubblegum pop.
Production is for consumption, n’est Pas?
If the chap’s production has bagged a load of happy consumers, what’s to complain about?
Unless you have some opinion on what people *should* think…
I’ve heard several of his songs today, it being the season of the Phil Spector Christmas Album. Must be pretty good still getting royalties aftor 60 years. I wonder if Darlene Love gets anything, having sung on most of the tracks.
Goffin and King
Mann and Weill
Spector Barry and Greenwich
Paul Anka
Pomus and Shuman
I just love the Brill building sound.
I remembered overnight one of the more subversive uses of bubblegum music : Hit Girl in action to the Banana Slits thene
https://youtu.be/fUdx2siotUo
Banana Slits sounds like quite a subversive programme in its own right. 🙂