Always Magic in the Air is a family portrait of fourteen remarkable young songwriters who, huddled in midtown Manhattan’s Brill Building and in 1650 Broadway during the late 1950s and early ’60s, crafted rock ’n’ roll’s first entries in the Great American Songbook — classics like Elvis Presley’s 'Jailhouse Rock,' Dionne Warwick’s 'Walk on By,' the Crystals’ 'Uptown,' the Shirelles’ 'Will You Love Me Tomorrow,' and the Righteous Brothers’ 'You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’. Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, Neil Sedaka and Howie Greenfield, Carole King and Gerry Goffin, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, and Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich melded black, white, and Latino sounds before multiculturalism became a concept, integrated audiences before America desegregated its schools, and brought a new social consciousness to pop music.
Always Magic in the Air
