Neil Sedaka dies aged 86

seadoug said:
From our era, we lost Catherine O'Hara and Robert Duvall. They say it comes in threes, so the final shoe has dropped.

RIP to a very talented man who helped shape my teenage years. I had Laughter in the Rain on my cassette recorder. Such a great song!
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seadoug, you look a little bit like him. Both handsome!
 
Bretrick said:
If anything, it worked in his favour. His voice sold over 40 million albums.
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It also worked quite well for Frankie Valli, Lou Christie, Michael Jackson, Prince, Barry Gibb, Dell Shannon, and a host of others.
A voice is merely an instrument, and it's amazing what can happen when one knows how to use it.
Not only did Sedaka know how to showcase his voice, but he was also a very talented songwriter who wrote and co-wrote around 500 songs. He was definitely gifted in the field of music.
 
OldFeller said:
As a kid in the sixties watching the songs come out, I couldn't have known that. I just knew that I didn't buy any of his records because why would I want a guy who sings like a woman? I wondered if anyone else saw it that way.

But then girls bought more records and they go for the lyrics. He wrote clever songs.
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Yes, I did.
 

Neil Sedaka Plays Chopin on I've Got a Secret!​



"Russia is part of both Europe and Asia, with the Ural Mountains serving as the traditional boundary between the two continents. Approximately 75% of its territory is in Asia, while about 75% of its population lives in the European part."

 
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I've been listening to his music all of my life. My sister bought his record (45 rpm) Run Sampson Run. Although he wouldn't make my list of my top ten favorite singers and bands, never the less, I always seemed to love singing along to his songs. They were just fun to sing along to like, Calendar Girl, Run Sampson Run, Next Door To An Angel, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do.

R.I.P. Neil. Thank you for all of the great music that was fun to sing along to. You made growing up more enjoyable.
 
R.I.P. Neil Sedaka
One of Sedaka's most frequently requested non-single tracks, was 'The Hungry years'


It marked Sedaka's reunion with his long-time collaborator Howard Greenfield
Sedaka and Greenfield would again work together more regularly in the late 1970s.
The line "Looking through my tears - I miss the hungry years" = a quite sensative melancholy recollection
 
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I somehow missed hearing about his passing. The thing I most remember about him and his songs was that his song "Happy Birthday Sweet 16" was played by my parents on my twin sister's 16th birthday! That now seems like forever ago. Funny the things that imprint on us from an early age and we never forget them, even though they might be trivial things.
He clearly had a great career in music ... RIP Neil.
 
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