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Review: 'The Greatest Songwriter of All Time' Finally Gets a Biography

By Matt Welch Nov 14, 2025, 6:30 am91 pts
The Shirelles, an all-black girl group out of New Jersey, had just cracked the Top 40 in September 1960 and needed a follow-up hit. Don Kirshner, impresario of a songwriting factory in Manhattan's Brill Building, gave his teams the assignment. Within 24 hours, the husband-wife combo of composer…

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