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Songwriter and Producer, ELLIE GREENWICH
She co-wrote some of the most popular songs of the early 1960s.
She was writing songs for Cyndi Lauper and Irene Cara in the 1980s.
The Broadway Review 'Leader of the Pack' was rebroadcast in 1986.
Songwriter and Producer, ELLIE GREENWICH. She co-wrote some of the most popular songs of the early 1960's, for the girl groups produced by Phil Spector: songs like "Leader of the Pack" and "River Deep, Mountain High". She got her start out of the Brill Building with the songwriting team of Lieber and Stoller. In the 1980's, when she was writing songs for Cyndi Lauper and Irene Cara, she performed some of her hits in a Broadway Review called "Leader of the Pack". (Rebroadcast from 1986).
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