Neil Sedaka And How I Loved His Second Act

by Kevin Burton    I love laughter, I love rain, and I love me some Neil Sedaka.    So the news that Sedaka died Feb. 27 at age 86, stung.    I never knew the man of course. Never got within 100 miles of him as far as I know. Yet he was a friend …

Songwriter Cynthia Weil Turns 82

by Kevin Burton    Happy 82nd birthday to a great American songwriter you may not know much about, Cynthia Weil.     If her name doesn’t ring a bell, her music sure will.  She and her husband Barry Mann formed one of the most important songwriting teams of the 60s. They were contemporaries of writers you …