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Brill Building (genre)

Brill Building (also known as Brill Building pop or the Brill Building sound)[1] is a subgenre of pop music[1] that took its name from the Brill Building in New York City, where numerous teams of professional songwriters penned material for girl groups and teen idols during the early 1960s.[2] The term has also become a metonym for the period in which those songwriting teams flourished.[7] In actuality, most hits of the mid-1950s and early 1960s were written elsewhere.[7]

Brill Building

Late 1950s – early 1960s, New York City

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Roy Wood

Cindy Lee

1960s artists/songwriters


Later artists

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