I could not love this more…
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It was the Galloway method through a running group that got me through a lot of 5Ks, 10Ks, half marathons, and a sole marathon. Running purists scoff, but it worked. His posts on FB were always encouraging and motivating.
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Don’t know the actor…
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Nice tribute to Eric Dane on last night’s Grey’s Anatomy
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A Brooklyn boy from Erasmus Hall High School who traveled Frank McGuire’s “Underground Railroad” in reverse along with a number of othe city kids from NY down to the University of North Carolina to put them on the college basketball map. Although he was older than I was, he was still a legend when I played basketball on the same courts as he did at Foster Avenue Park. A playground legend, fondly remembered.
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How about the song, “O, Caol”, which Sedaka wrote to and about his high school girl friend, Carole King?
It’s amazing how the lives of so many of these people were interconnected. Carole King and Paul Simon were classmates and friends at Queens College in NYC.
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This may sound silly but one of the first things I thought of when hearing that Sedaka died was American Idol.
We were a big AI household back in the day and my then 13 year old daughter was enamored with Clay Aiken. Sedaka became his mentor and role model on the show and I believe penned the arrangement of the Solitaire song/moment.
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Neil Sedaka’s music was the background of my youth. He was a brilliant songwriter.
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I saw something on Netflix, a series I THINK was called Pop Music (?) where one episode dealt with the Brill Building (again, I THINK?) in NYC where all of the early 60s musical genius songwriters had offices. People like Sedaka, Carole King and her partner, Stoller and his partner, etc. Amazing how they would hear music coming from an office down the hall and borrow from each other, etc.
Fascinating.
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Yes, amazing that Carole King walked into the Brill Building as a 16-year-old high school kid and was hired immediately. For their first hit, she & Gerry Goffin, later to become her husband, co-wrote “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow”, just an amazingly good song.
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We so enjoyed the Carol King bio musical “Beautiful”. Learned a lot and loved the music. (There were some international tourists who started standing and singing along… the ushers had to remind them it is not a rock concert.)
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Stuffy ushers. Yes, sing. You paid to do so.
I think the singing was fine. (I may have done some of that myself.) It was the standing / blocking views that was discouraged. The broadway version had fabulous sets, good if everybody can see.
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They stand, I stand if I can’t see. I’m sure the cast loves the appreciation.
As I said stuffy ushers.
I love the “ Beautiful “ musical ( have seen it twice). But it is bad manners to sing along at live musical performances unless the audience is specifically asked to.
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I agree. Sorry all for the distraction - we could talk more on that topic elsewhere if desired.
Getting back to Neil Sedaka, I like “Laughter in the Rain”
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One member of the cast (an extra) chose to… err…. Spit on his grave
Grey’s Anatomy co-star claims Eric Dane was true evil after his death
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I thought Sedaka’s slow version of Breaking Up Is Hard To Do was genius.
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One of Sedaka’s lesser-known songs was 1981’s “The Immigrant,” which, if it made me cry before, would in all sincerity have me in a sobbing mess if I listened to it now.
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