Re: Jewish songwriters

[Alex J. Lubet <lubet001...>]

I don't doubt you, but this is the first time I've encountered a reference to
Brian Wilson being Jewish.  Do you know him or have a published source.  Neither
Great Jews in Music nor Jews Who Rock list the Wilson brothers.



Klezcorner (at) aol(dot)com wrote:

> In a message dated 11/13/2 7:37:49 PM, BlackMonk (at) email(dot)msn(dot)com 
> writes:
>
> << It has interviews with a number of Jewish songwriters outside the scope of
> the article-Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, P.F. Sloan, Paul Simon, and a couple
> others.
>
> That's not to slight the interviews with non-Jewish songwriters like Pete
> Seeger, Willie Dixon, Goffin and King, Harry Nilsson, Yoko Ono, Brian
> Wilson, etc.
>  >>
>
> Goffin and King are both Jewish as is Brian Wilson....P.F. Sloan  was a
> regualr at Hatikavh (called Norty's Music) back in the 60's when he was
> composing/producing hit records with Steve Barri (Steve Lipkin) who worked
> here at the time.
> Simon
> Hatikavh Music
> 323) 655-7083
>

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