Phil Spector - Part C - "Rare & Unreleased Philles Plus"

[Motown Eddie]

You're very welcome, Eddie! It's true, Phil lost his most consistent writers -- Jeff & Ellie -- when they left to become full-time staff writers at Red Bird Records, although Phil still had Gerry & Carol [[Goffin & King) and Barry & Cynthia [[Mann & Weill), as well as Pete Adreoli [[Anders) & Vinnie Poncia. Yeah, Jeff & Ellie would submit a song to Phil; Phil would make a small change or two, and then claim co-songwriter credit for the entire song! Shrewd as hell, but I assure you he wasn't the only one doing it back then. Jeff & Ellie put up with it for the opportunity to work with Phil Spector in order to further their career, which it certainly did. They got along good with Phil, and, heaven knows, their work relationship created some great material for Philles for a couple of years.

I forgot to mention Jeff & Ellie's launching of Red Bird Records in 1964 as another reason to [[temporarily) stop working with Phil Spector. And yes; Phil Spector was far from the only record company owner/executive to claim songwriting credit on a song they played only a small part in writing [[or playing no part in writing for that matter).