Bob Feldman, the influential songwriter and producer behind a number of the largest hits of the Sixties, has died. He was 83 years outdated. A reason behind dying has but to be revealed.
The information was introduced in a press release from his shut pal, musical collaborator and enterprise companion Richard Gottehrer.
“It’s with nice unhappiness that I announce the passing of Bob Feldman, my pal and legendary songwriting companion, in Grand Canyon Music and FGG Productions – Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein and Myself,” Gottehrer wrote in a press release despatched to Billboard. “As a group we return to the 1960’s and the Brill Constructing days the place we wrote and/or produced classics like ‘My Boyfriend’s Again,’ ‘I Need Sweet,’ ‘Cling on Sloopy’ and ‘Sorrow,’ which was finally recorded and have become an eternal hit by David Bowie. We have been even an ‘Australian’ band that referred to as ourselves The Strangeloves.
“We have been younger and inexperienced however discovered the best way to produce by making demos of our songs; this led every of us to ongoing energetic careers in music after we went our separate methods,” his assertion continued. “We remained associates and to at the present time 60 years later are nonetheless companions in those self same firms we began again then.”
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Feldman and his neighbor Jerry Goldstein would regularly write songs collectively earlier than assembly Gottehrer in 1962. The trio fashioned FGG Productions and wrote a number of hits collectively, together with The Angels’ No. 1 Billboard Scorching 100 hit “My Boyfriend’s Again” and The McCoys’ “Sorrow,” which was later popularized by The Merseys and Bowie. The group additionally produced The McCoys’ Scorching 100 No. 1 “Cling on Sloopy” — which endures as an unofficial theme track at Ohio State College sports activities occasions — all whereas making it huge in their very own group, The Strangeloves. As a band, they scored Scorching 100 prime 40 hits with “I Need Sweet” (No. 11), “Cara-Lin” (No. 39) and “Evening Time” (No. 30). Bow Wow Wow famously coated “Sweet” in 1982, taking it again to the Scorching 100 (it reached No. 62 that July).
Feldman was additionally a printed creator, releasing his personal guide of verse, lyrics and memoirs in 2019 titled Merely Put! Ideas and Emotions from the Coronary heart.
Gottehrer concluded his assertion by writing, “The reminiscences of the occasions we shared; the songs we wrote and the adventures that stuffed our lives stay. In the end we’ll all cross however the music will reside on. Relaxation in peace Bob….we’ll meet once more.”
Feldman is survived by his two daughters, Kyle and Mahri. He’s additionally the organic father of actor Corey Feldman, who emancipated himself from Bob and his mother Sheila as a young person.
