The Oh Carol, calendar girl. Breaking up is hard to do. Happy Birthday, Sweet 16, Stupid Cupid, where the boys are,

is this the way to Amarillo, solitaire, laughter in the rain, love will keep us together.

The history of popular music will be quite different without contributions of our guest for this

episode of Sodeger on songwriting, Mr. Neil Sadecker.

For over 50 years, Neil Sadecker has written written, produced and performed hundreds of songs, many of which are prominent entries in the rock and roll cannon.

I'm sure many of our listeners recognize more than a few of the songs that Brian just listed.

I should hope so.

This is definitely another major coup for us as fans of that whole Brill Building era

and haven't been looking enough to speak with Mike Stola and Barry Man and Cynthia Weil already on the podcast.

Our older music reunion continues right here with Neil Siddaka and I can barely believe it.

In fact I don't think I will until I hear that velvety voice, answer the phone.

Well here's a bit more info about our guest.

Neil Siddaka was born on March 13, 1939.

He grew up in Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, a stone throw from the Coney Island amusement there in New York.

By the time he was eight years old, he'd already become training at classical piano,

as part of the Children's Division of the Juilliard School of Music, and at 16 he was voted one of the best

emerging pianists from New York's high school system and although he remains

an accomplished classical pianist to this day it was rock and roll that was

Neil's true calling he formed a

do-wop group caller tokens and they had a couple of regional hits including a

number one with a cover of the line sleeps tonight however the real turning

point came when a Mrs Greenfield who lived in the same building as the

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