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(Jeff and Ellie) Barry and Greenwich

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The Resume

    Born in Brooklyn, New York
    Jeff Barry (April 3, 1938- ), birth name was Joel Adelberg
    Ellie Greenwich (October 23, 1940-August 26, 2009)
    As the Raindrops, recorded the song 'The Kind of Boy You Can't Forget' (1963)
    Together wrote the songs 'Be My Baby,' 'Baby I Love You,' 'Then He Kissed Me,' 'Da Doo Ron Ron,' 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home),' 'Chapel of Love,' 'Leader of the Pack,' 'Hanky Panky,' 'Doo Wah Diddy Diddy' and 'River Deep, Mountain High'
    Without Barry, Greenwich wrote '(Today I Met) The Boy I'm Gonna Marry' and 'Why Do Lovers Break Each Others' Hearts?'
    Without Greenwich, Barry wrote 'Tell Laura I Love Her,' 'Sugar, Sugar,' 'Montego Bay' and 'I Honestly Love You'
    Songs were the basis for the Broadway musical 'Leader of the Pack' (1984)
    Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame (1991)

Why they might be annoying:

    As the Raindrops, they were one-hit wonders.
    Barry left his first wife to marry Greenwich.
    Their marriage broke up in late 1965, followed by their songwriting partnership, when they decided collaborating was too awkward, especially on love songs.
    Barry helped inflict bubblegum music on the world as a producer/songwriter for The Archies.

Why they might not be annoying:

    The Raindrops came close to a second hit with 'That Boy John,' but it was dropped from radio playlists after the JFK assassination.
    Together they wrote 5 Number One hits, and Barry wrote a pair of additional #1s.
    They discovered Neil Diamond and produced his first records.
    Barry's 'I Honestly Love You' won the American Music Award for Song of the Year (1974).

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 17 Votes: 5.88% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 5 Votes: 20.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 18 Votes: 5.56% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 13 Votes: 46.15% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 15 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 21 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 12 Votes: 66.67% Annoying