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Breaking Up Is Hard To Do by Neil Sedaka

Artist Biography For Neil Sedaka

Neil Sedaka Born 13 March 1939 In Brooklyn New York Is An American Pop Singer Pianist And Songwriter Often Associated With The Brill Building Era Of Songwriting. He Teamed Up With Howard Greenfield To Write Many Major Hit Songs For Himself And Others. Sedaka Wrote His 1959 Hit "Oh! Carol" About His Then-Girlfriend Carol Klein Later To Become Carole King. In 1963 King Released A Humorous Answer Entitled "Oh Neil". The Laughter In The Rain Songfacts Says Sedaka's Hits Dried Up When The Beatles Arrived But Then He Teamed Up With The Lyricist Philip Cody And Had A A Number 1 Hit With "Laughter In The Rain." It Re-Ignited Sedaka's Career And He Had 6 More Top-40 Hits In America By 1977. Sedaka's Voice Is In The Tenor Range.

Frogtoon Music - Song Info: Breaking up Is Hard to Do

"Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" Is A Song Recorded By Neil Sedaka Co-Written By Sedaka And Howard Greenfield. Sedaka Recorded This Song Twice In 1962 And 1975 In Two Significantly Different Arrangements And It Is Considered To Be His Signature Song. Between 1970 And 1975 It Was A Top-40 Hit Three Separate Times For Three Separate Artists Lenny Welch The Partridge Family And Sedaka's Second Version. "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" Hit Number One On The Billboard Hot 100 On August 11 1962 And Peaked At Number Twelve On The Hot R&B Sides Chart. The Single Was A Solid Hit All Over The World Reaching Number 7 In The UK Sometimes With The Text Translated Into Foreign Languages. For Example The Italian Version Was Called "Tu Non Lo Sai" "You Don't Know" And Was Recorded By Sedaka Himself.

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