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On Feb. 1, 1978, Dolly Partons "Here You Come Again" became her first gold single. At the time of the songs release, Parton was making a big push to break into the pop world. Thats certainly evident from "Here You Come Again": Written by songwriting legends Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil -- who had penned hits for the Righteous Brothers and the Drifters, among others -- and produced by Gary Klein (Johnny Cash, Glen Campbell), the song had recently appeared on a BJ Thomas LP. Partons version of "He...

Phil Spector "Youve Lost That Lovin Feelin" alone generated publishing royalties in the high five figures last year. Phil Spectors estate is poised to oversee music assets likely worth tens of millions of dollars following his death on Jan. 16, according to  Billboard calculations. Those assets include his songwriting credits on 186 songs, per the BMI song database; ownership of the Philles Records catalog of 12 albums, including  A Christmas Gift For You and releases by The Ronettes and Th...

ABC Photo Archives/Walt Disney Television via Getty hide caption toggle caption ABC Photo Archives/Walt Disney Television via Getty Darlene Love in 1964. Love was the uncredited singer on a handful of the biggest hits produced by Phil Spector during the era when he was making his "Wall of Sound" production technique famous. ABC Photo Archives/Walt Disney Television via Getty Phil Spector, who died on Saturday at the age of 81, has long been hailed as one ...

By Yakir Benzion, United With Israel American singer Dolly Parton turned 75 this week and called on her fans to “work for a brighter day” and to “share [their love] with our family, our friends and our neighbors,” The Forward reported. Parton started out as a country and gospel singer, but her big break came in the 1970s when two Brooklyn-born Jewish men changed her career by helping her move beyond the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville to become a mainstream pop star. Parton says talent age...

Died: January 16, 2021. WRITING in his Bob Dylan Encyclopedia some 14 years ago, author Michael Gray, observing that Phil Spector was very young when his father took his own life, says that that event, more than any other, “explains” Spector’s lifetime “of disturbed behaviour. Mad, inspired record producer; seven-stone weakling; gun-toting paranoiac; teen tantrum king; abusive husband and father: this is Phil Spector on a good day”. A few years later, in 2009, after a retrial (t...

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A list of the top songs from country music legend Dolly Parton.

Phil Spector, music producer convicted of murder, dies at 81 after contracting COVID-19 [Los Angeles Times :: BC-SPECTOR-OBIT-1ST-LEDE:LA] LOS ANGELES — Phil Spector, the visionary record producer who revolutionized pop music in the early 1960s with his majestic sound and fierce ambition but spent his final years behind bars after shooting and killing an aspiring actress in his Alhambra mansion, has died in a hospital after becoming infected with the coronavirus. He was 81. Spector died Satur...

Brilliant record producer and convicted murderer We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss January 18, 2021 — 1.57pm Normal text size PHIL SPECTOR: 1939 - 2021 Phil Spector, a music producer and songwriter who came to dominate the pop charts in the early 1960s with his bombastic-symphonic "wall of sound" in hits such as Be My Baby and Youve Lost That Lovin Feeling, and whose long record of disturbing personal behaviour culminated in a murder convi...

Phil Spector, music producer convicted of murder, dies at 81 after contracting Covid-19 Music producer Phil Spector looks up during his murder trial in Superior Court July 10, 2007, in Los Angeles. (Gabriel Bouys-Pool/Getty Images/TNS) LOS ANGELES — For all the hit songs he drove up the charts, for all the power and wealth he amassed, for all the admiration he drew as he rearranged the pop music landscape, there was a darkness deep in Phil Spector’s soul that would forever shadow his genius...