Remembering Neil Sedaka

I need cheer, start with the great Neil Sedaka, a preeminent songwriter/singer/performer, who died days back at age 86 (alas no “Sedaka is back,” yet nobody knows for sure), and the one and only, adorable, so talented Lulu singing my favorite “Neil Song,” “Laughter In The Rain” over fifty years ago in ’75 (it hit in ’74 and I recall it playing in the car we could not quite pile into in time thus ’twas “the night of pie,” with, but not about 10 million worth, “Pieman”)

Sedaka grew up in Brooklyn, went to school with, if not dated Barbara, another sad, and wrote/recorded or both, such great songs as “Calendar Girl,” “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do” and “Love Will Keep Us Together” for “The Captain And Tenille.” (Elton helped, producing Sedaka is back –hear it at the end of “Love Will Keep Us Together”).

Incredible talent and insight. Words fail me however, others and the music will follow.

Suffice to say we need the likes of Sedaka back and so much of today’s evil gone. As usual, I will not hold my breath.

The post below includes Neil’s “Calendar Girl.”

My Calendar Notes Part 2