RIP Neil Sedaka

[Motorik]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yrdr5d43yo

 

[Andrew Sak]

He wrote this timeless hit.

R.I.P.

 

[jrockbridge]

Wow! 86 is a good run. R.I.P.

 

[Chicken Man]

He was a pop hack, but he was hugely talented. The legend goes that he and Carole King, when they were in high school, would play a game where one would mash a random bunch of notes on one piano, and the other could match it by ear on a neighboring piano.

And the month-by-month rhyme scheme of Calendar Girl is brilliant.

 

[micwalt]

Did every child of the ‘70s have that conversation with a parent after hearing Laughter in the Rain, where they assured you that the singer was indeed a man and you were like, “No way, Mom! That’s gotta be a chick!”
RIP

 

[Motorik]

Did every child of the ‘70s have that conversation with a parent after hearing Laughter in the Rain, where they assured you that the singer was indeed a man and you were like, “No way, Mom! That’s gotta be a chick!”
RIP

Ha! His voice in that song is higher than Karen Carpenter, and if you heard them both on the radio it'd be pretty easy to make that mix-up.