![]() ![]() ![]() Over the years it's been covered by Neil Young, Jimmy Scott and Gary Numan, among others. The follow-up to to their Gerry Goffin/Carole King-written classic 'Up on the Roof' (produced by Leiber/Stoller), The Drifters' 'On Broadway' also featured a guitar solo from Phil Spector, helping to propel it to number nine on the Billboard Hot 100. Leiber and Stoller switched it up from its shuffly original into a more bluesy, rock song with new lyrics, shifting the perspective from someone trying to get on Broadway, to someone actually being there. The first version of 'On Broadway' was written by Mann and Weil and recorded by The Cookies and The Crystals, before they sent it the way of Mike Stoller and Jerry Leiber for The Drifters. What happens if you get not one but TWO of the best songwriting duos in pop history together to come up with a song with maybe the greatest R&B/soul vocal group ever? You get 'On Broadway' by The Drifters, one of the all-time classics. ![]()
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