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met formally as adults was at a Thanksgiving dinner hosted by her maternal uncle, who was married to Barry's cousin. Greenwich and Barry recognized their mutual love of music. Barry was married at that time to his first wife, who was at the dinner, but he and Greenwich married several years later and
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in Levittown, NY, Greenwich and two friends formed a singing group, The Jivettes, which took on more members and performed at local functions. While attending high school, she started using the accordion to write love songs about her school crush. After graduating high school, Greenwich applied to
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for the cast album, and the play garnered The New York Music Critics' Award for Best Broadway Musical. During the 1990s and into the new millennium, the musical has enjoyed several revivals and continues to be performed at schools and community theaters.
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However, the couple's marriage could not be saved; before the end of the year, Barry and Greenwich divorced. The couple continued to work together for much of 1966, partly due to Greenwich's discovery of a talented singer-songwriter named
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In 1959, still at college, Greenwich met the man who became her husband and main songwriting partner. Although it is possible they had been acquainted as children, since they shared a relative, the first time Greenwich and
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Greenwich and Barry began dating after his marriage was annulled, but musically they continued separate careers. Still in college, in 1962, Greenwich got her first break in the business when she traveled to the
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cabaret in New York City, Greenwich was there to see them. The Bottom Line owner Allan Pepper convinced Greenwich to meet him and discuss putting together a revue showcasing her hits. In 1984,
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At one such recording session, Greenwich met Steve Tudanger, with whom she and Steve Feldman would later form the company Jingle Habitat to write and produce
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to painter turned electrical engineer William Greenwich, a Catholic, and department store manager (later medical secretary), Rose Baron Greenwich, who was
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On October 28, 1962, Barry and Greenwich married, and shortly afterward decided to write songs exclusively with each other – a decision that disappointed
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had just been assassinated and, according to Barry and Greenwich, radio stations were loath to play the song. Barry and Greenwich also penned songs for
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was founded in 1964 by Leiber and Stoller, Barry and Greenwich were brought in as songwriters and producers. The label's first release was
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Award in March 2010 (which was posthumously awarded to Greenwich) for helping to define the Brill Building sound. At the ceremony at the
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and released as the first Raindrops single) and the U.S. Top 20 hit "The Kind Of Boy You Can't Forget," the couple wrote and recorded "
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who liked my songs but told me continue my education before trying to invade the songwriting jungle." At
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but was rejected because the school did not accept accordion players, and she subsequently enrolled at
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inducted Greenwich, Barry, and other songwriting colleagues from the 1950s and early 1960s, including
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that she became known as New York's Demo Queen. Her biggest hits during this period were written with
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At 17, around the time she began attending Queens College, Greenwich recorded her first single for
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Phil Spector: Back To Mono 1958 – 1969, 4 CD box set, All Mother Bertha Music, 1991, liner notes
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charts in 1983. That same year, "Right Track Wrong Train", which Greenwich wrote with Kent and
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By her teens, Greenwich was composing songs and said in a 1973 article, "When I was 14, I met
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dedicated an improvised arrangement of "Be My Baby" to Greenwich while playing a show on the
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after one of her professors at the former institution belittled her for recording pop music.
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On May 7, 2013, a "Garden of Ellie" that contains a statue of Greenwich was placed next to
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dedicated "Da Doo Ron Ron" to Greenwich, while playing the song during a concert at the
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On August 26, 2009, Greenwich died of a heart attack at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital (
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for radio and television. Tudanger and Feldman also co-produced Greenwich's second LP,
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and Jeff Kent; the Greenwich-Kent-Foley team penned "Keep It Confidential", a hit for
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became a songwriting duo recognized as one of the most successful and prolific among
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and the Summits. James recorded it in 1963 but it did not become a hit until 1966
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Before marrying Barry, Greenwich wrote songs with different partners, including
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Greenwich's affiliation with Ellen Foley and Nona Hendryx indirectly led to a
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show that resurrected her 1960s music. When Foley and Hendryx performed at
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Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era
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had a No. 14 (U.S. charts) hit with their revival of "River Deep".
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singer, songwriter, and record producer. She wrote or co-wrote "
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In 1991, Greenwich and Barry were inducted together into the
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Browne, David, "Ellie Greenwich: Brill Building Legend",
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The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits: Revised and Enlarged
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List of songs written by Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich
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announced that Greenwich and Barry would receive the
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the following year. Cast members included Greenwich,
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to meet John Gluck, Jr., one of the composers of the
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Ellie Greenwich at the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame
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