Long before sad-girl anthems like Lana Del Rey’s “Summertime Sadness” and Phoebe Bridgers’ “Motion Sickness” were dominating air waves, the sounds of Carole King and her piano were doing the emotional ...

In this day and age, it’s hard to imagine a hit band relying only on songs that have already been recorded by others or were provided by outside writers. Yet in the 60s, that could be a viable ...

It's hard to fathom life today without the hit songs of Stevie Wonder. If it wasn't for Sylvia Moy, an unsung Motown powerhouse, we might never have gotten those tunes. Songwriter Sylvia Moy in her ...

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"A White Jewish producer, and the greatest Black jazz singer of all-time, and an all-Black band, working together to produce art," Crystal says Jeremy Helligar is Deputy Editorial Director at PEOPLE ...

The Shirelles were four high school friends from Passaic, New Jersey, who recorded a number of memorable songs in the early 1960s. "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" became the first No. 1 hit by a Black ...

Working with partner Gerry Goffin during the early 1960s, King composed melodies on piano, and Goffin wrote lyrics. They were based in the famed Brill Building in New York, an office complex where ...

They came from two very different worlds. The couple that wrote one of Aretha Franklin’s greatest songs never met the singer who would turn the composition into a classic. Carol Joel Klein—later to ...

The Shirelles, an all-black girl group out of New Jersey, had just cracked the Top 40 in September 1960 and needed a follow-up hit. Don Kirshner, impresario of a songwriting factory in Manhattan's ...

Gerry Turner is sharing why he felt betrayed by his ex-wife following their divorce. During a recent appearance on the "I Do, Part 2" podcast, the 74-year-old "Golden Bachelor" star explained he felt ...