Who wrote the hungry years?
Howard Greenfield is one of the prolific lyricists and songwriters, in America .who for several years in the 1960s worked out of the famous Brill Building. He is best known for his successful songwriting collaborations, including one with Neil Sedaka from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, and near-simultaneous (and equally successful) songwriting partnerships with…
Howard Greenfield is one of the prolific lyricists and songwriters, in America .who for several years in the 1960s worked out of the famous Brill Building. He is best known for his successful songwriting collaborations, including one with Neil Sedaka from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, and near-simultaneous (and equally successful) songwriting partnerships with Jack Keller and Helen Miller throughout most of the 1960s.
Born (March 15, 1936 – March 4, 1986) in Brooklyn, New York City, in his late teens Greenfield formed a songwriting partnership with Neil Sedaka, a friend whom he had first met as a teenager when they both lived in the same apartment building, in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn.
Greenfield was educated at Abraham Lincoln High School. Their first recorded compositions took up both sides of the 1956 non-charting debut single by the Tokens, of which Sedaka was briefly a member.
Who wrote the hungry years?
The Hungry Years tell the story of the Great Depression through the eyes of the people who lived it. Less concerned with the power brokers in Washington than with the daily struggles of ordinary people at the grassroots across America, it draws on little-known oral histories, memoirs, local press, and scholarly monographs to capture the voices of men and women in a time of extreme crisis.
The result is a richly detailed narrative that traces the stages of the disaster chronologically without losing touch with the personal wounds it inflicted or the ways in which people responded. Written by Howard Greenfield, Neil Sedaka
