― Peter, Thursday, 17 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
more apt comparisons would probably be mann/weill vs. goffin/king and bacharach/david vs. webb.
― fred solinger, Thursday, 17 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Geoff, Thursday, 17 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― keith, Sunday, 20 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― --Suzan, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mike Howard, Wednesday, 23 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― stosh, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 04:40 (nineteen years ago) link
Gerry Goffin has passed.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/06/19/us/ap-us-obit-gerry-goffin.html?hp&_r=0
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 June 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
Oh, man.
― Alba, Thursday, 19 June 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
Such a great lyricist. RIP.
― banjoboy, Thursday, 19 June 2014 22:24 (nine years ago) link
oh boy. yeah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONPVklwj9mQ
― I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 19 June 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link
probably my favorite pop songwriters ever, on par with bacharach/david
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caLC0fov34A
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 20 June 2014 00:07 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olqvPg3GL1M
― tylerw, Friday, 20 June 2014 02:17 (nine years ago) link
RIP Gerry Goffin
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 June 2014 14:06 (nine years ago) link
Found a nice copy of Nils Lofgren's first solo record ('75) at the flea market yesterday. Good version of "Goin' Back," very different from the four or five others I have. I'm going to put it alongside "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" and the most cover-proof song ever. You just can't do a bad version of it.
― clemenza, Monday, 19 August 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
that’s a nice album!
― brimstead, Monday, 19 August 2019 18:49 (four years ago) link