JERRY GOLDSTEIN
Jerry Goldstein is an American producer, singer-songwriter, talent manager, music executive, musician and entrepreneur. He was one of the members of The Strangeloves, the co-writer of “My Boyfriend’s Back” (a hit song in 1963 for The Angels) and “Come on Down to My Boat”, the producer and songwriter of War, and the former manager of Sly and the Family Stone. Goldstein was part of a three person production team which wrote and produced numerous records which are referred to as “FGG” – Feldman, Goldstein and Gottehrer. (More from Wikipedia)
The American songwriter/producer trio of Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein, and Richard Gottehrer has been a veritable cauldron of one-hit wonders over the years. They first teamed up in 1963 for the girl-group classic “My Boyfriend’s Back” by the Angels. The following year, in the wake of the British Invasion, they decided to reinvent themselves as a band called the Strangeloves and to pretend that they were three brothers who grew up on a sheep farm in Australia. Once they came up with the hit song “I Want Candy” in mid-1965, they were put in the uncomfortable position of having to perform as live artists, so they brought a touring band with them (much as the UARB for July 2011 the Rip Chords had done). The sole album by the Strangeloves includes two other excellent songs that have been widely covered, “Cara-Lin” and “Night Time”.
While on tour in Ohio, the Strangeloves discovered a local band led by Rick Zehringer. They brought him back to New York and pieced together Rick’s vocals with one of their own melodies, creating yet another hit with “Hang on Sloopy” that was released under the name the McCoys. (That melody was later “sampled” in the cool novelty song “Snoopy vs. the Red Baron” by the Royal Guardsmen; the tune was well known enough so that everyone understood the implied lyric "hang on Snoopy" without its having to be uttered).
(May 2012)