"Up on the Roof"

Carole King, Gerry Coffin

Today at Word & Song I have a new musical style to introduce to you. The genre was short lived, and occupied the years between Elvis Presley’s induction into the Army and the “British Invasion,” with the arrival of the Beatles in 1964. The style was called The Brill Sound, named for the Brill Building in Manhattan, where a group of song writers and co…