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Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" (1975 version) – US Adult Contemporary, 1976, Grammy Award nomination for Song of the Year [59] Lonely Night (Angel Face)" by Captain & Tennille (1975) (songwriter) – (Canada), US Billboard Easy Listening Season 2 runner-up Clay Aiken chose Sedaka's 1972 song " Solitaire" for his performance. As Aiken explained to the studio and TV audiences, host Ryan Seacrest, and the four regular judges, "Solitaire" had long been one of his mother's all-time favorite songs. When she learned that Sedaka was going to be a guest judge and that the finalists would be singing Sedaka's songs, she begged Clay to sing "Solitaire". The performance was uniformly given extraordinarily high praise by the judges. Sedaka told Aiken that he officially passed ownership of the performance of "Solitaire" to Clay, offering to record and produce a single of the song or an entire CD with him.

While Francis was writing in her diary, Sedaka asked her if he could read what she had written. Francis said no. This inspired Sedaka to write "The Diary", his own first hit single. Sedaka and Greenfield wrote many of Connie Francis' hits, such as "Fallin'" and the "Theme from Where the Boys Are", the film in which she starred. This hit the Top 5 on the Billboard pop singles chart and Francis had several No. 1 singles. "Where the Boys Are" eventually became her signature song. On September 11, 2010, Sedaka performed to a TV audience at the Hyde Park, London, venue of the "Proms in the Park" for the BBC. In April 2020, Sedaka launched a series of free mini-concerts, released through his social media channels, as a method of entertaining his fans during the COVID-19 pandemic. Each daily concert features three songs from Sedaka's discography. Sedaka paused the series in December due to contracting COVID-19 himself, but resumed on a reduced schedule January 4, 2021, after recovering with no symptoms. [52] [53] Personal life [ edit ] Today's Mini-Concert – 9/14/2020 – Dedicated to Howard Greenfield". YouTube. Archived from the original on November 7, 2021 . Retrieved June 14, 2021.

Neil Sedaka: The Music of My Life" – interview with Johnnie Walker for BBC Radio 2, broadcast December 28, 2010 Go-Set Top 40 for 1969". Poparchives.com.au. Archived from the original on March 28, 2015 . Retrieved September 28, 2014.

Neil Sedaka: 'I think the songs will outlive me—It's a form of immortality.' Morning Joe. Retrieved January 13, 2023. His first single for RCA Victor, " The Diary", was inspired by Connie Francis, one of Sedaka and Greenfield's most important clients, while the three were taking a temporary break during their idea-making for a new song. Francis was writing in her diary, Sedaka asked if he could read it, and Connie said no. After Little Anthony and the Imperials passed on the song, Sedaka recorded it himself, and his debut single hit the Top 15 on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 14 in 1958. [12]Today's Mini-Concert – 1/4/2021". YouTube. Archived from the original on November 7, 2021 . Retrieved June 14, 2021. Find sources: "Neil Sedaka"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( September 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Billboard Top 200 Albums chart dates and information for The Definitive Collection, Waking Up Is Hard to Do, and The Music of My Life courtesy Billboard.com Although Sedaka's stature as a recording artist was at a low ebb in the late 1960s, he was able to maintain his career through songwriting. Because his publisher, Aldon Music, was acquired by Screen Gems, two of his songs were recorded by The Monkees. Other hits Sedaka wrote in this period included The Cyrkle's versions of "We Had a Good Thing Goin'" and " Workin' On a Groovy Thing"; a Top 40 R&B hit for Patti Drew in 1968; and a Top 20 pop hit for The 5th Dimension in 1969. Also, "Make the Music Play" was included on Frankie Valli's charting album Timeless. I recorded this on my Virgin TIVO box, but it was infuriatingly deleted from my recordings as Sky Arrts 2 no longer broadcast.

a b c d "Today's Mini-Concert – 7/16/2020". YouTube. Archived from the original on November 7, 2021 . Retrieved June 14, 2021.James E. Perone (2006). The words and music of Carole King. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-275-99027-5. Curt Schleier (June 7, 2012). "Q&A: Neil Sedaka on Adele and Carole King – The Arty Semite – Forward.com". The Forward . Retrieved March 19, 2013.

Another highlight from The Hungry Years was Sedaka's new version of " Breaking Up Is Hard to Do". His 1962 original, a No. 1 hit single, was upbeat; the remake was a slow ballad, which Sedaka had arranged for Lenny Welch five years prior. [34] Sedaka's version hit No. 8 on the Hot 100 in early 1976, making him the only artist to ever record an entirely reinterpreted version of a song where both versions reached the Billboard Top 10. (Welch's version had reached No. 34.) The 1976 ballad version also hit No. 1 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart. Find sources: "Neil Sedaka"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( October 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)ABBA won at Eurovision the following year with the song " Waterloo". Palm, C.M. (2002). Bright Lights, Dark Shadows. London: Omnibus