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Song Analysis: Love Will Keep Us Together

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The song Love Will Keep Us Together is a very well known song that has had many many covers. Although Captain and Tennille got very famous for singing this song which actually was a cover, the real creators and writers of this song was Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield. Neil Sedaka is an American pop and rock singer who is also a pianist, composer and record producer. Since his beginning of his career in 1957, he has sold millions of record as an artist and has partly written or written over 500 songs for himself and others. He collaborated with mostly with lyricists Howard Greenfield and Phil Cody. Howard Greenfield was an American lyricist and songwriter who for several years 1960s who worked for the famous Brill Building. Howard is best …show more content…

session musicians from the group Wrecking Crew and from there they had a worldwide hit with their version of the song. The Wrecking Crew was a group of ragtag studio session musicians whose services were constantly wanted by singers during the 1960’s and early 1970’s. They were the back of many top selling songs. They were considered one of the most successful recording units in music history. They became the the most recognizable when they became the de facto house band for Phil Spector. They played so many hits that he produced and contributed to the Wall of Sound production methods. They played behind many famous artist such as Jan & Dan, Sonny & Cher, Barry McGuire, the Mamas & the Papas, Frank Sinatra, and Nancy Sinatra. They were sometimes used as ghost players on recordings such as the first two albums for the Monkees, the Byrds’ cover of Bob Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man” and the Beach Boys’ album Pet Sounds. People that are in the group are Keyboardist Leon Russell, Guitarist Glen Campbell, who along with Leon became a popular solo acts, drummer Hal Blaine who played on over 140 top ten hits. Other musicians are drummer Earl Palmer, saxophonist Steve Douglas, guitarist Tommy Tedesco, and multi instrumentalist Larry Knechtel who later went on to be a member of the group Bread. Two members of the group were part of the inaugural “sidemen” inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000, while the entire group was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame in 2007. A year later the group was the focus of a

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