Jeff Barry

JEFF BARRY
 
 
Jeff Barry  (born Joel Adelberg, April 3, 1938, Brooklyn, New York) is an American pop music songwriter, singer, and record producer.  Among the most successful songs that he has co-written in his career are “Da Doo Ron Ron”, “Then He Kissed Me”, “Be My Baby”, “Chapel of Love”, and “River Deep - Mountain High” (all written with his then-wife Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector); “Leader of the Pack” (written with Greenwich and Shadow Morton); and “Sugar, Sugar” (written with Andy Kim).   (More from Wikipedia)
 
 

The idea for the magazine Who Put the Bomp originally was that the title of each issue would be taken from the name of a great rock song; thus, the second issue was to have been called Da Doo Ron Ron.  Greg Shaw was persuaded that this was not a good idea for an ongoing publication, so the issue was named Who Put the Bomp #2, with Da Doo Ron Ron as the subtitle.  This practice was dropped after the third issue, although the initials R.I.A.W.O.L. were frequently present on the front page, standing for “Rock Is a Way of Life”.  

 

Da Doo Ron Ron” was a #3 hit in 1963 for the girl-group the Crystals; and it was written by another famous 1960’s songwriter couple, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, together with Phil Spector (now infamous for his 2009 conviction for a murder in his home in 2003).  This song is a classic example of Spector’s legendary “Wall of Sound production technique. 

 

(May 2013)

 

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The girl group era attracted some of the greatest songwriters of all time:  Jerry Leiber and Mike StollerGerry Goffin and Carole KingEllie GreenwichJeff BarryCynthia WeilBarry Mann, etc.  Carole King would go to become one of the outstanding singer-songwriters in music history; her Tapestry album is one of the largest selling albums ever, with more than 25 million copies sold worldwide. 

 

(October 2013)

 

Last edited: March 22, 2021