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| | Bert Berns - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Bert Berns' death in the last days of 1967 marked an end to the golden era of rock and soul music. | | | In 1965, Bert Berns formed his own record labels, Bang Records and Shout Records. | | | Bertrand Russell Berns (November 8, 1929 - December 30, 1967) (a/k/a Bert Russell and Bert Berns) was one of the great American songwriters and record producers of the 1960s. |
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| | Bert Berns Music - Favorite Songs - Lyrics From |
| | Berns was in the music industry in the early-to-mid-'60s. | | | Bert Berns was one of the great rock and soul songwriters of the 1960s, as well as being... | | | Bert Berns was one of the great rock and soul songwriters of the 1960s, as well as being a producer... |
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http://www.lyricsfrom.com/artists/b/Bert-Berns.html
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| | Blogcritics.org: New Bert Berns Collection |
| | Bert Berns was an extravagantly talented songwriter and producer who brought Latin rhythms to soul music and soul to rock and roll. | | | Berns studied classical piano as a child, and worked as a record salesman, music copyist and session pianist in his teens and twenties. | | | Berns returned to New York, and in 1960 went to work for Robert Mellin Music writing and plugging songs. |
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http://blogcritics.org/archives/2002/09/20/224347.php
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| | Cassie Berns - Gigs |
| | Geared up to show her talent as a singer/songwriter, Berns' recorded a pop/reggae album, which was unfortunetly benched due to "roster congestion". | | | Berns' voice is sweet like Amy Grant but her guitar work reminds me of an early Melissa Etheridge and Sophie B. Hawkins. | | | Looking to prove herself in the music world, Berns' took to recording in her early teens and scored a record deal with Elektra. |
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| | Berns then began composing, often under such pseudonyms as Bert Russell and Russell Byrd, and in 1960 formed a partnership with Phil Medley, the first of several similar working relationships. | | | They may be the ruin of us all.’ He was referring to an endangered generation of hustling backroom talent, responsible for gathering songs, musicians and arrangements. | | | Their first major success came with Twist And Shout, originally recorded by the Top Notes but later transformed into an anthem by the Isley Brothers and regularly performed as a show stopper by the Beatles. |
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http://www.centrohd.com/biogra/b1/bert_berns_b.htm
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| | Bang Records Story |
| | Berns had been involved in making successful records for years by the time Bang was formed, either as a songwriter or as a producer. | | | Bert Berns was a stickler for getting airplay, and at that time songs being under three minutes was necessary. | | | A memo on the back of the cover by Bert Berns told of things that allegedly happened during recording of the album, and the recordings themselves had studio talk at times with Barry and Greenwich encouraging (demanding?) Diamond as he prepared to sing. |
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http://www.bsnpubs.com/nyc/bangstory.html
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| | Berns GS and Berns MW: Computer-based tracking of living cells. | | | Save Berns has several different bars and a night club, every with their own special music character and tempo. | | | Cassie Berns, Bert Berns' daughter has recently released her first CD, Everything. |
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| | Spectropop Group Discussion Archives: Digest Number 882 - 13 May 2003 |
| | Bert Berns & Van Morrison From: Phil Milstein 23. | | | It is an incredibly dismissive session, just Van on acoustic guitar and vocals, the music virtually interchangeable from one "song" to the next, the lyrics alternating nonsense lines with pointed jabs, barbs and in-jokes. | | | Message: 2 Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 16:40:00 EDT From: Brett Berns Subject: Re: Bert Berns & Hoagy Lands I would just like to thank everyone for their warm welcome and kind words about my father, especially Mick Patrick, Artie Wayne, Mike Edwards, Martin Roberts, Phil Milstein, Harry Young, Davie Gordon and Country Paul. |
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http://www.spectropop.com/archive/digest/d882.htm
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| | Bert recorded this song already on Solomon Burke in '62, but Freddie's approach is closer to Betty Harris "63 slow version. | | | The song starts quietly, almost in a whisper, but then grows and grows and keeps on growing to an unsurpassable deep soul climax and to such an intense that in my books this record is my all-time number three. | | | It's also the only 'fresh' album in the Shout discography as the only other album release, In the Beginning ('72), offered some early Jimi Hendix' mid-60s recordings. |
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| | Real Life Rock Top 10 - Salon |
| | Berns, a legendary New York record man, was 38 when he died in 1967. | | | Collections honoring such a figure usually come in boxes; ignoring Berns' pop hits with Van Morrison and the McCoys, this is a single disc of nine deep-soul numbers that Berns wrote and produced, plus one misguided homage. | | | You hear strange, astonishingly delicate bits of instrumentation -- guitar triplets, a hesitating piano, room to breathe all through the arrangements -- that produce the feeling that the great voices Berns recorded were not quite of this earth. |
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http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/col/marc/2002/10/07/78/index1.html
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| | CD reviews: "Vanthology," "Shout, Sister, Shout! A Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe" and "The Heart and Soul of Bert ... |
| | If you think you've not heard of Bert Berns, you've certainly heard his work – from the Beatles' (and Isley Brothers') hit "Twist and Shout" to Janis Joplin's "Piece of My Heart," to "Hang on Sloopy" and "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love," Berns was one of the great unknown songwriters of the 1960s. | | | From the shoutin' gospel of Sister Rosetta Tharpe to 1960s pop craftsman Bert Berns to a blues take on pop star Van Morrison's songs, these albums recapture some of the last century's musical brilliance. | | | Like Otis Blackwell and Doc Pomus, Berns provided much of the soundtrack to the '60s – but never got the kind of attention that the Leiber-Stoller songwriter team did. |
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http://www.trageser.com/archive/music/album-songwriters.html
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| | Bert Sheet Music, Guitar Tab, Music Books & More at Musicnotes.com |
| | The Isley Brothers, Phil Medley, Bert Russell, The Beatles | | | Bert Sheet Music, Guitar Tab, Music Books and More at Musicnotes.com | | | A Kiss To Build a Dream On Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Oscar Hammerstein II Piano/Vocal/Chords |
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| | Spectropop Group Discussion Archives: Digest Number 880 - 12 May 2003 |
| | Bert Berns directed and co-wrote the song (as Bert Russell with Carl Spencer) and Teacho Wiltshire arranged. | | | He may well have been the best vocalist Bert Berns ever worked with, his version of "Baby Come On Home" on Atlantic being a very tough record to beat, if you care for gut-wrenching, gospel-drenched uptown soul, which I *do*. | | | To those folk I say, remember that Bert Berns owned and ran the Bang label, home of the Strangeloves, the McCoys, Neil Diamond and a host of other great *pop* acts. |
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| | The first time I heard Bert Berns and Jerry Ragovoy's "Piece of My Heart" was on Cheap Thrills, the 1968 album by Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin. | | | That journey led, among many places, to a lot of music that Berns had a hand in creating, much of which you'll find on this absolutely essential collection. | | | I loved the song then, but a couple of years later, when I heard – in the Hayward garage of late Baytown Records owner Mark Edmunds – the Berns-produced 1967 original sung by Aretha Franklin's sister Erma, my world changed. |
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| | AVguide.com: Film/Music Recommendations: New Oct 1, 2002 CD Releases & Commentary |
| | The Heart and Soul of Bert Berns just scratches the surface, but does so effectively and persuasively, allowing the music and songwriting to speak for itself. | | | Aside from being an indispensable collection of pop standards, the disc aims and succeeds at bringing Berns' accomplishments to light, finally giving the visionary producer and songwriter his due, 40 years after his career began. | | | Rather, as the album's producer and Universal CEO Doug Morris explains in the liner notes, "This record is not just a collection of Bert's biggest hits. |
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http://www.avguide.com/film_music/music/editorial/oct01_new_CDs.jsp
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| | Bang Records - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Berns' young widow signed singer/songwriter Paul Davis, who had a number of hit records in the 1970s and 1980s, including songs such as "Ride 'Em Cowboy," "I Go Crazy," "Sweet Life," "Cool Night" and "65 Love Affair." Ilene Berns also signed and developed RandB acts Brick ("Dazz") and Peabo Bryson. | | | At Bang, Berns had an immediate string of hit records, including "I Want Candy" by The Strangeloves, "Hang On Sloopy" by The McCoys, "Brown Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison, and "Solitary Man" by Neil Diamond. | | | Bang Records was created by Bert Berns in 1965 together with his partners from Atlantic Records: Ahmet Ertegun, Neshui Ertegun and Jerry Wexler (Gerald). |
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| | The Doo Wop Cafe and Doo Wop Cafe Radio site |
| | Atlantic's association with the Stax label out of Memphis was not only changing the color of the music, but changing how records were made. | | | The song was later recorded by Patti LaBelle and The Bluebelles and yours truly cut a version, as well. | | | Before the summer was over, Resnick and Young came up with the perfect follow-up to "Boardwalk," "I've Got Sand In My Shoes." Call it contrived, but record companies are in the business of selling records. |
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| | The Number One Songs In Heaven: Sister trying to do it for herself |
| | This became her biggest hit in 1967 (though Janis Joplin's version is unfortunately better known now) and Berns planned to record an album with her to capitalize on the success but he unexpectedly died before this happened which threw Erma's career and the label into turmoil. | | | After an unsuccessful stint at Epic Records she signed with Bert Berns' Shout label where she recorded "Piece of My Heart" which was written by Berns and Jerry Ragavoy. | | | This was around the time her sister became a superstar and if I was Erma I'd wonder why God hated me so much. |
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http://www.londonlee.com/2005/03/sister-trying-to-do-it-for-herself.html
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| | Discography: The Bang material |
| | Following Bert Berns' death on December 30, 1967, Van was able to get released from his contract when he handed in a tape including a selection of throw-away nonsense "songs" - these tracks later appeared as part of The Lost Tapes set(s), in its various forms. | | | Bang's release of the Blowin' Your Mind album (without Van's knowledge, while he was on the road, touring), only exacerbated this. | | | But Bang still had the rights to Van's next 10 tracks. |
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| | Betty Harris |
| | The next 45, her last for Jubilee, was ‘Mojo Hannah’, an RandB classic, with lyrics that forecast her voyage into the heart of New Orleans. | | | The bluesy piano, and prominent placement of Eddie Bert’s mournful trombone make a solid foundation for Harris’s emotion-filled delivery. | | | This went on to be her biggest hit, hitting #10 RandB and #29 pop. |
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| | In addition to his writing credits, Berns produced some of the most memorable records of th | | | List of songwriters 184: * Bert Berns 186: * Leonard Berns tein | | | List of people by name: Beo-Bez 131: ==== Berni - Berns ==== 140: * Bert Berns Berns, Bert, songwriter 141: * Bonnie Berns teinBerns tein, Bonnie, (born c. |
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| | JS Online: CD Review: Various artists' 'The Heart and Soul of Bert Berns' |
| | While superstar producer Phil Spector was building his wall of sound, hustler Bert Berns, who left a job as a staff producer at Atlantic to start the Bang label, had less grandiose ambitions: hooking up the perfect artist with the perfect tune. | | | JS Online: CD Review: Various artists' 'The Heart and Soul of Bert Berns' | | | CD Review: Various artists' 'The Heart and Soul of Bert Berns' |
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| | VM seems to have always been a little peeved with music business folk. | | | Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 22:20:31 -0600 Subject: Bigtime Operators Is there an FAQ on Van Morisson that would answer the question: Regarding the song =B3Bigtime Operators=B2, on the CD =B3Too Long In = Exile=B2, is Bert Berns one of the big time operators referred to in = the song? | | | What=B9s the rest of the story on this song? |
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| | BERNS, Bert : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music |
| | BERNS, Bert : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music | | | When he had a heart attack the East Coast stranglehold on American pop had been lost, but the songs are still remembered, some written under pseudonym Bert Russell. | | | This page may not be reproduced without permission. |
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| | NPR : LARRY HOLMES continues |
| | (REBROADCAST from 2/1/90)Rock historian ED WARD remembers Bert Berns, a songwriter, producer, and record label head who was part of the Brill Building era. | | | He said his intention was to tell the story in a way in which blacks were not the "victims." HAMPTON's other highly acclaimed documentaries were "America's War on Poverty" and "The Great Depression." HAMPTON had struggled since 1990 with lung cancer. |
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| | Blowin' Your Mind! by Van Morrison CD |
| | Van Morrison's 1967 debut solo album, recorded just after the implosion of his groundbreaking blues-rock band Them, was, to say the least, unlike anything else coughed up in the Summer of Love. | | | Who Drove The Red Sports Car - (alternate take, bonus track) | | | Includes liner notes by Bert Berns and Bob Irwin. |
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| | pw: philadelphia weekly online |
| | Seemingly named after Van Morrison's greatest album, Weeks looks like Woody Allen circa Sleeper and he sounds like Drake circa Five Leaves Left, although when he gets his hands on a harmonium, he sounds glummer than Nico in withdrawal. | | | Berns died in 1967 at age 38, but not before writing and producing some of the best soul music of his time. | | | As a child, Bert Berns--a major force at Atlantic Records in the '60s--contracted rheumatic fever, which weakened his heart but not his resolve. |
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| | essays & effluvia: Who wrote the song “Hang on Sloopy”? |
| | When I gave Cody his choice of prizes (a Bert Berns-related CD, or a Johnny or Edgar Winter CD) he suggested something else. | | | Now, here’s something both fun and worthwhile for all of us who would like to participate. | | | Most people don’t know the name, but check out this small sampling of the songs he wrote: |
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| | NoRelevance - For Lovers Of Visual Junk. |
| | This track is the B-side to the ever-popular "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon." | | | Parent to Shout Records also featured here, BANG's design is understated but well understood. | | | BANG was an acronym, the letters standing for Bert Berns (aka Bert Russell for some of his songwriting credits), Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegun (the brothers behind Atlantic), and Gerald Wexler (Jerry was one of Atlantic's ace producers). |
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| | The Originals© by Arnold Rypens |
| | Bert was the man who lured Van Morrison to the States and who wrote Here Comes The Night for him. | | | > Writers Bert Berns and Jerry Ragovoy are specialised in shouted soul: Jerry also wrote Cry Baby (Janis Joplin) and Time Is On My Side (Irma Thomas - Rolling Stones). |
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| | Cassie Berns - About Me |
| | I was born in New York City under the astrological sign of Aquarius, and was catapulted into the world of music by my late-great father, Bert Berns. | | | Dad was one of his generation's most talented writers and producers, leaving us songs like "Twist and Shout," "Hang on Sloopy," "Brown Eyed Girl," "Under the Boardwalk" and many more. | | | Cassie Berns - About Me (Move your mouse over images for info and click on for larger images) |
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| | THE BROOKLYN RAIL - MUSIC |
| | Or if you’d been on the cruise Bert Berns from Bang Records devised in 1967 to promote Van Morrison, who had just recently been divorced from his old band, Them. | | | By the end of the year Bert Berns was dead of a heart attack and Morrison, whose relationship with Berns had soured anyway, was looking for a way out of his contract with Bang Records. | | | What we do know is that it all fell apart soon after Morrison’s cheery "Brown Eyed Girl" hit the top ten in the summer of ’67. |
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| | berns at Music 44 (Page 1) |
| | Everybody Needs Somebody to Love Berns Marching Bands Series | | | Everybody Needs Somebody To Love (conductor's Score) Berns Conductor's Score - Conductor Score Marching Bands Series | | | Product Code: MB9850-D Old Product Code: 0-MB9850 Category: Instrumentals Series: Marching Bands Voicing: Marching Band Grade: Easy, Grade 2 Genre: WB 3D Drill Design Available Publisher: Alfred Publishing (Warner) Author: Bert Berns, Solomon Bu... |
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| | The Sound of the World :: View topic - Invisible Visionaries - the playlists |
| | congratulations on an exemplary radio tribute to the great Bert Berns. | | | So, thanks for bringing Ragavoy and Berns to the UK airwaves, I never | | | 8 - Isley Brothers - You'll Never Leave Him - 1963 - The Heart and Soul of Bert Berns - Universal |
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| | The History of Rock Music. Solomon Burke: biography, discography, reviews, links |
| | Il suo primo hit, Just Out Of Reach (1961), fu forse il primo crossover country-soul. | | | Dopo alcune sobrie canzoni di Berns (Cry To Me, 1961), ottenne il successo con If You Need Me (1963, di Pitney), Got To Get You Off My Mind (1964, di Toussaint) e Tonight's The Night (1965), ma diede il meglio della sua arte vocale in altri brani di Berns (Everybody Needs Somebody To Love). |
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| | Bert Russell was a writing name used by Bert berns. |
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| | Feature Item - poparchives.com.au |
| | To grasp the full extent of his career, see the official Bert Berns site, especially the extensive discography. | | | Here Comes The Night, Hang On Sloopy and Twist And Shout are just the tip of an extraordinary iceberg. | | | Produced and co-written by Bert Berns (aka Bert Russell/Russell Byrd). |
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| | December 30 Deaths in History |
| | December 30, 1971 Jan Mul, composer, dies at 60 | | | December 30, 1967 Bert Berns, U.S. songwriter/producer (Twist and Shout), dies at about 38 |
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| | Pazz & Jop 2002 |
| | Critics Voting for The Heart & Soul of Bert Berns |
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