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Colgems Records label
Colgems Records label.
Don Kirshner
Don Kirshner managed singers Bobby Darin and Connie Francis before forming Aldon Music in 1958 with veteran publisher Al Nevins. Setting up office in the heart of Tin Pan Alley on Broadway across from the Brill Building, they cultivated prolific songwriting partnerships including those of Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield and of Gerry Goffin and Carole King, whose well-honed songs for Francis, Bobby Vee, the Drifters, and the Shirelles helped New York City pop wrench the teenage market away from the spontaneous rock-and-roll artists who had unearthed it. With song-plugger and producer Lou Adler among Kirshner’s lieutenants, Aldon merged with ...(100 of 226 words)