The company’s name was an acronym consisting of the first names of the four partners – Bert Berns, Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegun, and Gerald Wexler.īerns’ second record company, Shout Records, was devoted to soul and R&B music. The first was called Bang Records and specialized in rock and roll music. Bert Berns was sufficiently successful in this position that he subsequently formed two of his own record companies. There he produced records for artists like Solomon Burke, The Drifters, Ben E. In 1963, when Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller left Atlantic Records to set out on their own, Berns was hired as Atlantic’s staff producer. Berns discovered Morrison when he was the frontman for the group Them. The picture below shows, from L: producer Jeff Barry, Bert Berns and Van Morrison in the recording studio for Morrison’s first solo record, in March 1967.
But in addition, Berns wrote a slew of pop songs that include “Brown-Eyed Girl,” “Hang on Sloopy,” “Under the Boardwalk,” and “Here Comes the Night.” Wow, what a track record! We first heard of Bert Berns in my blog on the song Piece of My Heart, which Berns co-wrote for Aretha Franklin’s big sister Erma Franklin, and which was famously covered by Janis Joplin. He subsequently parleyed that into producing, and eventually owned two record companies. My friend Glenn Gass says that Berns “virtually invented garage-rock music.” Starting out writing songs for $50 per week in New York’s famed Brill Building, Berns quickly discovered that he had genuine musical talent. Bertrand Russell Berns, aka Bert Russell, aka Russell Byrd, was one of the great early pioneers in soul and rock music. We want to start out by reviewing the short but fabulous career of Bert Berns. However, very few people know that the Isleys themselves covered a version by one-hit wonders the Top Notes.īert Berns, The Top Notes and Shake It Up, Baby: Most people know that the Beatles covered the Isley Brothers’ version of this song. This is one of the great R&B/rock songs of the 60s. Hello there! In this week’s blog we consider the song Twist and Shout.
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