After Sedaka returned to the US, however, the Sedaka-Greenfield team eventually reunited and continued until Greenfield's death in 1986.

Good friend and New York music impresario Don Kirshner attempted to make the U. S. release of Emergence a comeback for Sedaka, but the album and single releases had no appreciable success.

After the failure of Emergence in the U. S., Sedaka left his hometown of New York and moved his family to the UK.

" It was only the second Sedaka album ever to chart in the U. S. Sedaka was known principally as a singles artist up to that point in his career ; his only other American charting album was Neil Sedaka Sings His Greatest Hits, a compilation of his early singles.

" Despite their later falling out that would result in a change from Sedaka's record label from Elton's Rocket Records to Elektra, Elton has been credited by Sedaka as being responsible for his breakthrough back into the U. S. pop music scene.

Sedaka maintains a rigorous concert schedule in the second decade of the 21st century, in the U. S. and around the world, despite having passed the age of 70.

Sedaka also released the song in the U. S. in 1977 as the shortened " Amarillo ," but it was only a mid-chart entry, peaking just shy of the Top 40.

It also became the home of Cliff Richard, Neil Sedaka ( whose three most successful U. S. mid-1970s albums were on Rocket ), Colin Blunstone, The Foster Brothers, The Hudson Brothers, Blue, Kiki Dee, Judie Tzuke, The Lambrettas, Junior Campbell, Brian & Brenda Russell ( who had an early, rare-to-find disco hit " Nobody Loves Me Like You Do "), and the Dutch band Solution.

Rock-n-Roll emerged in the mid-50s as the teen music of choice with Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, Gene Vincent, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Little Richard, James Brown, Bo Diddley, Buddy Holly, Bobby Darin, Ritchie Valens, Duane Eddy, Eddie Cochran, Brenda Lee, Bobby Vee, Connie Frances, Johnny Mathis, Neil Sedaka, Pat Boone and Ricky Nelson being notable exponents.

Similarly, Neil Sedaka had two distinct eras of his career, with about a decade in between: one as a teen idol in the 1960s ( in which many of his songs note his attraction to 16-year-old girls ), and a later career in adult contemporary music.

Italian-language versions were recorded by Nancy Cuomo, Neil Sedaka, and Connie Francis.

Tomino ( as Iogi ) has collaborated with artists such as Yoko Kanno, Asei Kobayashi, MIO and Neil Sedaka.

After the relative failure of the follow-up singles " I'm Sorry I Made You Cry " ( which stalled at No. 36 ) and " Heartaches " ( failing to chart at all ), Francis met with Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield who sang a number of ballads they had written for her.

Greenfield urged Sedaka to sing a song they had written that morning with The Shepherd Sisters in mind.

Sedaka protested that Francis would be insulted, but Greenfield said that since she hated all the other songs they had performed, they had nothing to lose.

The melodies of the two opening themes and sole ending theme were written by American pop singer / songwriter Neil Sedaka.

Many well-known Pop-music acts of the ' 60s made Scopitone films such as The Exciters, Neil Sedaka, The Shadows, Dionne Warwick, Nancy Sinatra (" These Boots Are Made for Walkin '"), and Julie London.

By the end of the decade, teen idols like Bobby Darin, Rick Nelson, Frankie Avalon, Paul Anka, Neil Sedaka, Bobby Rydell, Connie Francis, and Fabian were topping the charts.

On American Idol, he impressed viewers with his performances of the Leon Russell / Bonnie Bramlett song " Superstar " ( best known as a hit for The Carpenters ) and the Peabo Bryson / Regina Belle duet " A Whole New World "; during his time on the show, Studdard received praise from music legends such as Lionel Richie, Neil Sedaka, Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees, Luther Vandross, and Gladys Knight.

Some ( Carole King, Burt Bacharach, Neil Sedaka, Neil Diamond, Boyce and Hart ) recorded and had hits with their own music.

Celebrities impersonated by Levy on SCTV include: Perry Como, Ricardo Montalban, Alex Trebek, Sean Connery, Howard Cosell, Henry Kissinger, Menachem Begin, Bud Abbott, Milton Berle, John Charles Daly, Gene Shalit, Jack Carter, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Tony Dow, James Caan, Lorne Greene, Rex Reed, Ralph Young ( of Sandler and Young ), F. Lee Bailey, Ernest Borgnine, former Ontario chief coroner Dr. Morton Schulman, Norman Mailer, Neil Sedaka, and Howard McNear as “ Floyd the Barber ”.

Neil Sedaka ( born March 13, 1939 ) is an American pop / rock singer, pianist, and composer.

Sedaka was born in Brooklyn, New York.

His father, Mac Sedaka was a taxi driver and a Sephardic Jew of Turkish descent.

Sedaka is a cousin of singer Eydie Gormé.

His mother wanted him to become a renowned classical pianist such as the contemporary of the day, Van Cliburn, but Sedaka was discovering pop music.

When Sedaka was 13, a neighbor heard him playing and introduced him to her 16-year-old son, Howard Greenfield, an aspiring poet and lyricist.

Sedaka and Greenfield wrote songs together throughout much of their young lives, with Sedaka going on to being a major teen pop star and the pair also writing hits for a litany of other artists as well as for Sedaka's own career.

However, when The Beatles and the British Invasion took American music in a different direction, Sedaka was left without a recording career and decided a major change in his life was necessary, moving his family to Britain in the early 1970s.

Sedaka began a new composing partnership with lyricist Phil Cody, who was born and raised in Pleasantville, NY.

* Sunny ( Neil Sedaka album ), 1979

" Sedaka himself recorded each of these three songs: " Another Sleepless Night " appears on his Rock With Sedaka debut album ; " What Am I Gonna Do?

" was the B-side of " Going Home to Mary Lou " and appeared on his 1961 album Neil Sedaka Sings " Little Devil " and His Other Hits ; and " All the Words in the World " was recorded but was kept in the RCA vaults until 1977, at the height of Sedaka's return to popularity, when it was released on the album Neil Sedaka: The ' 50s and ' 60s.

In 1971, Sedaka released the Emergence album.

" Emergence and the next year's Solitaire album were both released on the RCA Victor label, marking a short-lived reunion between Sedaka and RCA.

In 1972, Sedaka embarked on a successful English tour and in June recorded the Solitaire album at Strawberry Studios in Stockport, working with the four future members of 10cc ( best known to American audiophiles for " I'm Not in Love " and " The Things We Do for Love ").

Later in 1976, Sedaka released a third ( and final ) album with Elton John's Rocket Records, Steppin ' Out.

In 1977, Sedaka, now with Elektra Records, released his next album " A Song ," which had moderate success.

Things got worse with his 1978 album " All You Need Is the Music ," which was a dismal failure, because as Sedaka attempted to release disco-themed music himself in the late 1970s, his album sales were weak and singles could not get a foothold on the radio.

Sedaka also released one final album of new material with RCA, consisting of a live concert he gave in Sydney, Australia.

The album was released on the RCA International label in Australia and Europe as Neil Sedaka On Stage in 1974.

Ben Folds, an American singer-musician-songwriter and judge on NBC's a cappella vocal-group competition series The Sing-Off, credited Sedaka on his " iTunes Originals " album as an inspiration for song publishing.