Jeff Barry

Jeff Barry studied at City College of New York and Erasmus Hall High School. The recorded working language is English. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are rock and roll and pop. Distinctions recorded are Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

• Name — Jeff Barry • Birth Name — Joel Adelberg • Born — 3 April 1938 • Birthplace — New York City, U.S. • Genre — * Rock and roll • pop music • Occupation — * Songwriter • singer • record producer • Years Active — 1958–present • Label — * Red Bird • RCA • United Artists • Bell • A&M

Barry was born in Brooklyn to a Jewish family. His parents divorced when he was seven, and his mother moved him and his sister to Plainfield, New Jersey, where they resided for several years before returning to New York.

• Illustration — Barry and Ellie Greenwich with the Dixie Cups on the cover of Cash Box, August 29, 1964 In 1964, Leiber and Stoller brought Barry and Greenwich on board their new label, Red Bird Records, as songwriter-producers. Of Red Bird's first 20 releases, 15 hit the charts; all were written and/or produced by the Barry-Greenwich team, including "Chapel of Love", "People Say", and "Iko Iko" by the Dixie Cups, and "Remember (Walkin' in the Sand)" (co-produced by Artie Ripp) and "Leader of the Pack" by the Shangri-Las. In late 1966, Barry was asked to produce tracks for the Monkees, a music group put together specifically as the stars of an NBC sitcom, also called The Monkees. Drafted by the show's musical supervisor, Don Kirshner, Barry brought with him a few tunes penned by Neil Diamond for the group to record. One among them, "I'm a Believer", under Barry's production, would sail up the U.S. charts to No. 1 and become one of the biggest-selling records of all time. The group also had a hit with another single composed by Diamond and produced by Barry, "A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You". After Kirshner's dismissal from Colgems Records, however, Barry would not produce songs for the Monkees again until 1970's Changes, which contained many songs co-written by Barry, and their 1971 single "Do It in the Name of Love". Having been removed from the Monkees project, Kirshner became music supervisor for a new Saturday morning cartoon, The Archie Show, in 1968, and enlisted Barry as producer and main songwriter. During the next three years, Barry composed dozens of songs for the fictional Archies group, including the show's theme, "Everything's Archie", and the "Dance of the Week" (a staple of the show's first season). Barry had also recently founded his own label, Steed Records, and one of his most successful recording artists was Montreal native Andy Kim, who had hits with remakes of Barry's Ronettes tunes "Be My Baby" and "Baby, I Love You". Barry and Kim collaborated on several tunes for the Archies to record, including their best-known single, "Sugar, Sugar", which hit No. 1, became the RIAA Record of the Year for 1969, and earned the group a gold record. In 1969, Barry penned his first music for motion pictures (in the films Hello Down There and Where It's At), and wrote the music for and produced Tom Eyen's hit off-Broadway revue The Dirtiest Show in Town. The following year, he wrote and produced singles and albums for Archies lead singer Ron Dante, Bobby Bloom ("Montego Bay"), and Robin McNamara ("Lay a Little Lovin' on Me"), among others. In 1975, Barry produced "Ooh, I'm Satisfied" for the briefly successful mid-'70s pop singer and later session vocalist Polly Cutter.

Jeff Barry is recorded with the occupation singer-songwriter. Recorded with the occupation record producer. Classed in the genre rock and roll. Classed in the genre pop music. Recorded as singer, songwriter, singer-songwriter, record producer and composer.