Neil Sedaka goes way back to the sixties. One of his earliest hits was Breaking Up Is Hard to Do which he recorded some years later in a different style. Tons of hits.
Love his early stuff from the 60"s too. "Calendar Girl" and "Next Door To an Angel" are favorites of his teen heart throb years. Great pick and reaction Shawn. Blessings all.
Neil Sedaka is one of the most prolific songwriters around, whose career began around the early 60`s. This was more towards the end of his string of hits which began with Oh Carol a song written about his high school girlfriend, Carole King .
So happy you got to Neil Sedaka. I love this song. He also redid one of his own songs,and it's beautiful. Breaking up is hard to do....he slowed it down and highlighted his voice. Great pick Shawn
Some of Neil's greatest NUMBER 1 hits WITH him singing are: 1. This one, of course !!! 2. Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (MASSIVE #1 HIT in BOTH 1962 AND 1975 !!! Used everywhere) 3. Calendar Girl 4. Oh! Carol He also wrote tons and tons of hits songs for other artists, such as: 1. Solitaire (Carpenters) 2. Love Will Keep Us Together (MASSIVE HIT for Captain & Tennille) 3. Lonely Night (Angel Face) ... (another hit for Captain & Tennille) 4. Ring Ring (ABBA) His career spanned decades.
I have always loved Neil Sedaka, he had many hits, going back to the sixties. Calendar Girl was one of his big hits in the sixties. Captain and Tenille sang a song he wrote for them "Love Will Keep Us Together" and they acknowledge him in the song by singing "Sedaka is Back". Oh Carol is another popular song, as well as Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen.
If you want to hear some notes that will make dogs bark, play Jay and the Americans singing Cara Mia. Jay Black had a booming voice, and could still hit those notes on tour until his passing a couple years ago.
Neil had a hit in the 60's called, Breaking Up is Hard to Do. This first version of this hit was fast paced, high energy. Neil re-recorded this song as a slow ballad version of the song in the 1970's and this version also became a hit. It would be interesting for you to review both versions back to back on the same video.
The Brill Building in New York City during the '60s was the epicenter of new songwriting talent. Carole King and Gerry Goffin came out of there, Sedaka, many others. There's a great depiction of it in the movie "Grace of My Heart" which was based on Carole's life but they used different names.
It's fun to hear songs that I haven't heard for years, and reminds me how lucky I was to grow up with the music of the 60's, 70's, 80's , so many great songs !
I have a cd from from a Christmas 1975 tape that in addition to family goings on, had recordings off the radio. This was one of the songs. Good memories. 🎶❤️
Saw Neil play back in the late 80s in Boston on the Esplanade. They were free concerts from Oldies 103.7 FM. Got to see many amazing artists back then. Neil was definitely one of the best.
Neil is a singer songwriter of the highest caliber! You wanna talk about about great cover songs... he took a song he wrote & recorded in the Doo Wop genre called "Breaking up is hard to do". He covered himself in the 80's by rearranging and rerecording that very song in a Blueys vane! Just an amazing cover!~ You should check it out
One of Neil's later songs, 'The Immigrant,' resonates today. It's sort of a new American Anthem. You will like it. "There was a time when strangers were welcome here."
I have been recommending Neil Sedaka for years and no reaction channel ever picks it up. But I discovered your channel the other day and you have already begun the journey. Neil's an incredible singer/songwriter - a balladeer more than any kind of rocker but he has an excellent back catalogue. My top 5 suggestions: (I could do 20 easily) 5. The Hungry Years 4. Bad Blood (with Elton John on backing vocals) 3. The Other Side of Me 2. New York City Blues 1. The Immigrant (a song as relevant today as it was in the 70s) I really enjoy your channel, especially the way you look things up afterwards - I think it's so important to get things in context, to look into the meaning and the stories behind the songs. I just listened to your Elton John reaction so I'll jump on into that one. Subbed.
Hi SHAWN, another of my favorite singers with such a gorgeous voice. PLEASE do reactions to the other songs people have suggested here, and I would love to hear you react to his BEAUTIFUL song "SOLOTAIRE" it is SOOO beautiful and sad. It really speaks to me.
"Smoke the Best Colombian" was the t-shirt he wore on some t.v. show I saw from the 1970's, The Midnight Special (maybe). I saw him in a new light then.
I haven't heard this song in years. As soon as I saw the title you've reacted to, I instantly had the song in my head. 😄I loved "Calendar Girl" by Neil Sedaka. It's a much older song, but it's catchy. Thanks, Shawn!! 💙
Neil is a top notch songwriter, but an amazing performer as well. Not as well known as many which is too bad. I am glad that you finally heard him. There's a lot more to explore if you want to.
Another LESSER Known Neil Classic is The Miracle Song, whose lyrics ALWAYS touch my heart and Soul....! But EVERYTHING by Neil has been Gold to me throughout Life! MEGA MUSICAL MEMORIES!!!
The Brill Building is an office building at 1619 Broadway on 49th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, just north of Times Square. The building is famous for housing music industry offices and studios where some of the most popular American songs were written. It is considered to have been the center of the American music industry that dominated the pop charts in the early 1960s. By 1962, the Brill Building contained 165 music businesses. In the mid-1960s a musician could cut a demo, find a publisher and printer, promote the record and cut a deal with radio promoters without leaving the building. The creative culture of the independent music companies in the Brill Building and the nearby 1650 Broadway came to define the influential "Brill Building Sound" and the style of popular songwriting and recording created by its writers and producers. Many of the best works in American pop music were written there by a loosely affiliated group of songwriter-producer teams-Burt Bacharach-Hal David, Gerry Goffin-Carole King, Barry Mann-Cynthia Weil, and Ellie Greenwich-Jeff Barry, Jerry Lieber-Mike Stoller, Neil Sedaka-Howard Greenfield, Tommy Boyce-Bobby Hart, and others. Other writers were Paul Simon (as Jerry Landis), Neil Diamond, Sonny Bono, Tony Orlando, Marvin Hamlisch, and Phil Spector. Other musicians who were headquartered in the Brill Building include: Bobby Darin, The Drifters featuring Ben E. King, Connie Francis, Lesley Gore, Darlene Love, Liza Minnelli, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, Gene Pitney, The Ronettes, The Shangri-Las, The Shirelles, Doris Troy, Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, Dee Dee Warwick, and Dionne Warwick. - Wikipedia
I always liked this song. It was the first song I ever heard by him. I was too young when he had his first hits. It wasn’t until later that I realized he had been popular in the early 60s.
Speaking of Neil...you should check out The Captain and Tennille. Husband and wife duo who paid homage to Neil! Great time for music! Sweet songs from that time frame! 🤠
A rocker by Neil from 1958 I Go Ape. Other songs from his comeback-The Immigrant(about John Lennon's immigration issues), That's When the Music Takes Me, Bad Blood (with Elton John)-early hits include Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Calendar Girl , Oh Carol and many more-very popular late 50s to 1963 before his comeback in the 70s.
Yes, this is his signature song after his big songwriting career but also check out Elton John doing back up on his hit “Bad Blood”. It’s hard to believe it’s the same singer.
Shawn, good reaction. Suggestions:...."Stuck in the middle with you" by Stealers wheel....."I hear you knocking" by Dave Edmunds......"Sweet city woman" by Stampeders ...."Stumblin in" Chris Norman and Suzi Quatro
While it's on my mind, my suggestion is "Concrete and the Clay" by Unit 4 + 2. Very few reactions to it on YT, but it was a UK No. 1 back in '65. Still sounds great.
You really seem to like the 50s and early 60s So I'll recommend Benda Lee started out at maybe 13. Very powerful Voice 1. I'm Sorry 2. Sweet Nothin' You'll Love these Thx for the Oldies but Goodies 😊
I swear that I thought this was a woman singing for years until I actually saw him sing it on TV. ;-) Close your eyes and see what I mean. I know he keeps saying "her' and "she", but still....
ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SONGS OF ALL TIME
Neil Sedaka/Bad Blood - duet with Elton John😮😊
I always loved Neil Sedaka, his smooth voice & beautiful music was so nice. I still love this song!👍♥️🌹🎶🎵
Sedaka is among the greatest Pop songwriters alive today . Hope you do more of his 70s hits as well as his early hits.
He did a song “Calendar Girls. I think “ Breaking up is Hard to Do” hit the charts twice in his decades.
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do. Both the 60's and slowed down 70' s remake version. Both huge hits by Neil.
Neil Sedaka goes way back to the sixties. One of his earliest hits was Breaking Up Is Hard to Do which he recorded some years later in a different style. Tons of hits.
I had forgotten about the breaking up song! Great suggestion!
Love his early stuff from the 60"s too. "Calendar Girl" and "Next Door To an Angel" are favorites of his teen heart throb years. Great pick and reaction Shawn. Blessings all.
The Bee Gees said Neil Sedaka was someone who influenced them in their early days. 😊
Neil was pretty famous pre-Beatles. He disappeared for a while. Elton John helped rediscover Neil in the 70's. This was one of his comeback songs.
Shawn might also enjoy their (Neil and Sir EJ) duet , Bad Blood, with EJ providing harmony backup vocals!
@@sweetieguy Definitely
Plus he had a revival when he recorded in the Manchester strawberry studios set up by 10CC
I did hear a tv interview where he noted his career was damaged by the, 'British Invasion'
@@sweetieguy YES YES YES!!!!
Elton John signed Neil to Elton's Rocket Records label in the early Seventies helping Neil to make a comeback with several hits like this one.
Another favorite of mine...Neil Sedaka. Sounds just fantastic..🎤🎶🎹
Neil Sedaka is one of the most prolific songwriters around, whose career began around the early 60`s. This was more towards the end of his string of hits which began with Oh Carol a song written about his high school girlfriend, Carole King .
🌸 I've always thought this was a beautiful song
Even as a kid, this song made me happy. It was everywhere on the radio back in 1974.
Love this song by Neil
So happy you got to Neil Sedaka. I love this song. He also redid one of his own songs,and it's beautiful. Breaking up is hard to do....he slowed it down and highlighted his voice. Great pick Shawn
YES!!!!
Some of Neil's greatest NUMBER 1 hits WITH him singing are:
1. This one, of course !!!
2. Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (MASSIVE #1 HIT in BOTH 1962 AND 1975 !!! Used everywhere)
3. Calendar Girl
4. Oh! Carol
He also wrote tons and tons of hits songs for other artists, such as:
1. Solitaire (Carpenters)
2. Love Will Keep Us Together (MASSIVE HIT for Captain & Tennille)
3. Lonely Night (Angel Face) ... (another hit for Captain & Tennille)
4. Ring Ring (ABBA)
His career spanned decades.
Studio version Neil Sedaka the song is called bad blood
I have always loved Neil Sedaka, he had many hits, going back to the sixties. Calendar Girl was one of his big hits in the sixties. Captain and Tenille sang a song he wrote for them "Love Will Keep Us Together" and they acknowledge him in the song by singing "Sedaka is Back". Oh Carol is another popular song, as well as Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen.
If you want to hear some notes that will make dogs bark, play Jay and the Americans singing Cara Mia. Jay Black had a booming voice, and could still hit those notes on tour until his passing a couple years ago.
You didn’t stop smiling the entire song!!
A lovely, laid-back '70s song! An earlier hit was Breakin' Up is Hard to Do. I bought that 45 as a 8 year old....
He had a hand in Captain and Tennille’s career
I was lucky to see him in the early 70's while visiting an Aunt and Uncle in Las Vegas. He put on a great show!😊
Rainfall sounds are my favourite too 😊
There have been so many great songs with rain as the subject! This is one of the many! Loved your reaction! 😀
I love this song ! Can’t explain why! Could be called middle of the road but it’s beautiful 🤩
Love this song! It's been awhile since I had a listen. Neil is amazing. Great reaction 👏
Neil had a hit in the 60's called, Breaking Up is Hard to Do. This first version of this hit was fast paced, high energy. Neil re-recorded this song as a slow ballad version of the song in the 1970's and this version also became a hit. It would be interesting for you to review both versions back to back on the same video.
The Brill Building in New York City during the '60s was the epicenter of new songwriting talent. Carole King and Gerry Goffin came out of there, Sedaka, many others. There's a great depiction of it in the movie "Grace of My Heart" which was based on Carole's life but they used different names.
You might also enjoy their (Neil and Sir EJ) duet , Bad Blood, with EJ providing harmony backup vocals!
I've always loved his songs. There's just something happy and calming about his voice.
I LOVE this song!). Thank you for uploading this very romantic song Shawn).
Oh man, I can't remember the last time I heard this. It's like welcoming an old friend after a long separation. Thanks for reacting to this one.
It's fun to hear songs that I haven't heard for years, and reminds me how lucky I was to grow up with the music of the 60's, 70's, 80's , so many great songs !
Neil has a beautiful voice. His songs give me goosebumps.
I have a cd from from a Christmas 1975 tape that in addition to family goings on, had recordings off the radio. This was one of the songs. Good memories. 🎶❤️
Saw Neil play back in the late 80s in Boston on the Esplanade. They were free concerts from Oldies 103.7 FM. Got to see many amazing artists back then. Neil was definitely one of the best.
No bout adoubt it the 70s were the greatest times for music, all genres were fantastic ✨️🎶✨️
Neil is a singer songwriter of the highest caliber! You wanna talk about about great cover songs... he took a song he wrote & recorded in the Doo Wop genre called "Breaking up is hard to do". He covered himself in the 80's by rearranging and rerecording that very song in a Blueys vane! Just an amazing cover!~ You should check it out
At the end of Love will Keep Us Together, they sing "Sedaka is back". 💚
The song Solitare is beautiful. More Sedaka pls 🎶🎵
Try Happy Birthday Sweet 16.
Love this song!!!
One of Neil's later songs, 'The Immigrant,' resonates today. It's sort of a new American Anthem. You will like it. "There was a time when strangers were welcome here."
❤Still such a pure, sweet song❤
I have been recommending Neil Sedaka for years and no reaction channel ever picks it up. But I discovered your channel the other day and you have already begun the journey. Neil's an incredible singer/songwriter - a balladeer more than any kind of rocker but he has an excellent back catalogue.
My top 5 suggestions: (I could do 20 easily)
5. The Hungry Years
4. Bad Blood (with Elton John on backing vocals)
3. The Other Side of Me
2. New York City Blues
1. The Immigrant (a song as relevant today as it was in the 70s)
I really enjoy your channel, especially the way you look things up afterwards - I think it's so important to get things in context, to look into the meaning and the stories behind the songs.
I just listened to your Elton John reaction so I'll jump on into that one. Subbed.
Hi SHAWN, another of my favorite singers with such a gorgeous voice. PLEASE do reactions to the other songs people have suggested here, and I would love to hear you react to his BEAUTIFUL song "SOLOTAIRE" it is SOOO beautiful and sad. It really speaks to me.
"Smoke the Best Colombian" was the t-shirt he wore on some t.v. show I saw from the 1970's, The Midnight Special (maybe). I saw him in a new light then.
I haven't heard this song in years. As soon as I saw the title you've reacted to, I instantly had the song in my head. 😄I loved "Calendar Girl" by Neil Sedaka. It's a much older song, but it's catchy. Thanks, Shawn!! 💙
Good old song from the 70s. Memories. It was a great time to be a young man or woman. Life was not insane like it is these days.
Thanks Brother
Neil is a top notch songwriter, but an amazing performer as well. Not as well known as many which is too bad. I am glad that you finally heard him. There's a lot more to explore if you want to.
I see you and your beautiful wife together and smiling your gorgeous smiles, listening to this song
Another LESSER Known Neil Classic is The Miracle Song, whose lyrics ALWAYS touch my heart and Soul....! But EVERYTHING by Neil has been Gold to me throughout Life! MEGA MUSICAL MEMORIES!!!
Neil also did a duet with his daughter Dara " Should've never let you go"
Brill Buliding refers to songs written in the 1920s to the 1960s in New York.
Neil Sedaka and Carole King were friends and rivals.
The Brill Building is an office building at 1619 Broadway on 49th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, just north of Times Square. The building is famous for housing music industry offices and studios where some of the most popular American songs were written. It is considered to have been the center of the American music industry that dominated the pop charts in the early 1960s. By 1962, the Brill Building contained 165 music businesses. In the mid-1960s a musician could cut a demo, find a publisher and printer, promote the record and cut a deal with radio promoters without leaving the building.
The creative culture of the independent music companies in the Brill Building and the nearby 1650 Broadway came to define the influential "Brill Building Sound" and the style of popular songwriting and recording created by its writers and producers. Many of the best works in American pop music were written there by a loosely affiliated group of songwriter-producer teams-Burt Bacharach-Hal David, Gerry Goffin-Carole King, Barry Mann-Cynthia Weil, and Ellie Greenwich-Jeff Barry, Jerry Lieber-Mike Stoller, Neil Sedaka-Howard Greenfield, Tommy Boyce-Bobby Hart, and others.
Other writers were Paul Simon (as Jerry Landis), Neil Diamond, Sonny Bono, Tony Orlando, Marvin Hamlisch, and Phil Spector.
Other musicians who were headquartered in the Brill Building include: Bobby Darin, The Drifters featuring Ben E. King, Connie Francis, Lesley Gore, Darlene Love,
Liza Minnelli, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, Gene Pitney, The Ronettes, The Shangri-Las, The Shirelles, Doris Troy, Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, Dee Dee Warwick, and Dionne Warwick.
- Wikipedia
I always liked this song. It was the first song I ever heard by him. I was too young when he had his first hits. It wasn’t until later that I realized he had been popular in the early 60s.
70s version of They Say They Breaking Up Is Hard To Do is a great one by Neil. Excellent piano on that one.
Sedaka is back!!
Ironically, this always brings me memories of hot, summer days as a kid on the beach.
Speaking of Neil...you should check out The Captain and Tennille. Husband and wife duo who paid homage to Neil! Great time for music! Sweet songs from that time frame! 🤠
This was such a beautiful song.
Some great session musicians on this one, that Bass part by Leland Sklar is incredible.
He had so many hits in the 60’s and wrote numerous songs for others that became famous. I believe he also wrote My Way for Frank Sinatra
💖💖💖 Try "Calendar Girl", "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do", "Stairway To Heaven", "Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen" and "Oh, Carol".
A rocker by Neil from 1958 I Go Ape. Other songs from his comeback-The Immigrant(about John Lennon's immigration issues), That's When the Music Takes Me, Bad Blood (with Elton John)-early hits include Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Calendar Girl , Oh Carol and many more-very popular late 50s to 1963 before his comeback in the 70s.
Solitaire.
Neil is a great pop music writer!
❤❤❤❤😊
That's a great chorus.
Love Neil …..yes I loved our British Invasion but is didn’t stop me loving Sedaka songs
Yes, this is his signature song after his big songwriting career but also check out Elton John doing back up on his hit “Bad Blood”. It’s hard to believe it’s the same singer.
Check out I Never Should´ve Let You Go by Neil Sedaka and his daughter, Dara Sedaka!
He needs to be in the HOF.
Most excel at one or the other but Neil is a true master singer/songwriter
Good dance music.
Neil Sedaka Songs:
"Calendar Girl"
"Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" fast tempo version
"Muskrat Love" by the Captain and Tennille! Same genre!
Like ya buddy, keep it going ##
Shawn, good reaction. Suggestions:...."Stuck in the middle with you" by Stealers wheel....."I hear you knocking" by Dave Edmunds......"Sweet city woman" by Stampeders
...."Stumblin in" Chris Norman and Suzi Quatro
While it's on my mind, my suggestion is "Concrete and the Clay" by Unit 4 + 2. Very few reactions to it on YT, but it was a UK No. 1 back in '65. Still sounds great.
You really seem to like the 50s and early 60s
So I'll recommend
Benda Lee started out at maybe 13. Very powerful Voice
1. I'm Sorry
2. Sweet Nothin'
You'll Love these
Thx for the Oldies but Goodies 😊
bad blood - neil sedaka with elton john
I swear that I thought this was a woman singing for years until I actually saw him sing it on TV. ;-) Close your eyes and see what I mean. I know he keeps saying "her' and "she", but still....
Colleague contemporary and friend of Carol King
Bad Blood
Kinda corny, but kinda great too.
was this sounds so similar to the carpenter but not The carpenters its rainy days on monday
How you make a good song great, add a sax.
sorry 'BRENDA' Lee...
I saw him perform live and he was a brilliant concert entertainer, a real showman.
awesome song! great reaction!