Sound One – Bronx Banter https://www.bronxbanterblog.com Bronx Banter Blog, Served Fresh Daily Fri, 05 Jun 2015 19:37:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 New York Minute https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2015/06/05/new-york-minute-722/ https://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2015/06/05/new-york-minute-722/#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2015 19:37:00 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=120759 jackde

Class is in session. From the most excellent Notes on New York. 

 

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This past July the Times had a story on the future of the Brill Building:

If ghosts paid the rent, Eric Hadar would have an all-star tenancy: Freddy Bienstock, Johnny Burke, Cab Calloway, Nat King Cole, Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington and Jimmy Van Heusen, to name a few. Not to mention J.J. Hunsecker and Danny Rose.

But ghosts do not pay the rent. Neither do fictional characters. Their onetime home, the Brill Building, 1619 Broadway, at West 49th Street, now stands more than half empty, after the closing last year of Colony Records and the Sound One postproduction studio.

I worked for Sound One when I was in high school and college and then later as a freelancer. That building is where I came of age in many ways. Bummer what’s going on there now.

[Photo Via: The Brill Building Documentary]

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