
by Robert Hilburn, 2018
Scanned this book quickly after getting through the first 100 pages but then getting bogged down. Learned enough: Born in 1941, grandparents immigrated from Lithuania and Ukraine, long before the Holocaust, which would have killed them since they were Jewish. His father was a musician, stand-up bass. He was born in New Jersey but moved to Queens as a toddler. He loved baseball and was good at it but was so short, he had to give it up (I think he topped out at 5 feet 1 inch). The first hit he wrote was “Hey, Schoolgirl.” He sang it with his friend Artie (Art Garfunkel) at age 16 in 1956 and it was on American Bandstand in 1957.