A retro question for people who don't like Neil Sedaka: Why Not?

When I was in college in the seventies they used to have lotteries for concert tickets and this was the only one where I came up with a really high number to get great seats: I was #12. So for 2 weeks I tried asking out every man I knew to go to a Neal Sedaka concert with me. I have never been so rejected. I did get asked out on dates by some of the men I asked out, but they refused to go to a Neil Sedaka concert under any circumstances. Eventually I sold the tickets.

Was he that uncool?

You know, Jefferson Airplane and all the hippie stuff. I guess I lumped him in with Neil Diamond as commercial pop singers. Never could understand the popularity of wither one of them.

Thats what one of my roommates called Neil Diamond. She hated him, and my other roomie loved him and wanted to play his albums all the time. Sedaka was a really great writer of pop music, one of the best.

...Neil Sedaka's longtime musical director was (maybe still is?), a bass player named Jim Fielder.

I recorded some stuff with Jim back in the late 70s, around the time he started working with Neil.

Before that, Fielder had played bass for Zappa's Mothers, Buffalo Springfield (I think after Bruce Palmer went to Canada to escape the draft), and he was a founding member of Blood Sweat & Tears.

The band in which I recorded with Jim was called Scott Thomas Lowe & Atascadero, a Los Angeles band circa 1978-83. Atascadero's original drummer was Dewey Martin (Buffalo Springfield, The Dillards). I purchased from Dewey his Oak Lawn badge Camco drums which he used when recording with Buffalo Springfield, still use them occasionally for live shows.

On Edit: I'm not a big fan of Neil Sedaka, but, anyone who is a fan of Neil/that kinda music, is most likely assured an excellent performance from Neil and his band. They're real pros and they've played the same songs around a zillion times.

Neil Sedaka and Carole King were boyfriend and girlfriend somewhere along the way. There is a song called Oh, Neil by King and a song called Oh, Carol by Sedaka. And she is also one of the great songwriters of that era.

...I did not know that, that's pretty interesting.

After checking that out, it seems that "Oh! Carol" was Neil's first hit record.

when she wrote "Its too late"... it has to be the ultimate breakup song of the last 50 years.

A nasal, whiny quality that set my teeth on edge.

Hell of a writer of old-school pop tunes though, back in the day.

in the car on the way back and for to college more than anything else...especially "breakin' up is hard to do".

The local paper sent me as a teen reporter to review his concert in freaking Amarillo, TX - at the time that his song "Show Me the Way to Amarillo" was on the freaking charts! All I wanted was to ask a few fluffy questions but noooo... "Mr. Sedaka doesn't have time for any interviews. Go away kid."

Asshole.

:hi:

Would you take his glasses, or give him a set of glasses.



:)

Although it is a good episode, it is not the end of the episode, what would a vault dweller do after that.

Although you are seeing it wrong. You are not thinking of it all being connected, and thinking of the individual. And you only think that becuase of why, becuase I liked the episode. Maybe it is about the writer.

.I'm in Malvern Arkansas, and I will be here probably till I die. Come on down. We'll have a good meal, a drink, or a coke, listen to his music, and discuss why he didn't give you the interview. He is not an "asshole", but he is, or was, probably dictated by the people who ran his career. Given that, I would probably say that the Sedaka of today would grant your "interview" with the graciouness he would have done if it were up to him back then. Thanks.
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////hell no....I would have killed for a live Sedaka concert. Are you shittin me? Neil Sedaka was it, and anyone who doesn't get it is either too young or too stupid. The young, I can forgive, the stupid, I cannot. "You come on like a dream, peaches and cream, lips like strawberry wine, you're sixteen, you,re beautiful, and you're mine" I remember, when I was in tenth grade, feeling the same, her name was Jene Holland, and she was beautiful, she was sixteen, had lips like strawberry wine, but I'm married now to a wonderful woman, going on 26 years now, but you never forget your first love, and only a youngster, or a complete dumbass would ever forget that. Thanks.
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