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Neil Sedaka being interviewed by Paul Gambaccini in Neil Sedaka Live at the Royal Albert Hall: The Very Best of Neil Sedaka — The Show Must Go On DVD set "extra"

In 1961, Sedaka began to record some of his hits in Italian, starting with "Esagerata" and "Un giorno inutile", local versions of "Little Devil" and "I Must Be Dreaming", respectively. Other recordings followed, such as "Tu non lo sai" ("Breaking Up Is Hard to Do"), "Il re dei pagliacci" ("King of Clowns"), "I tuoi capricci" ("Look Inside Your Heart"), and "La terza luna" ("Waiting For Never"). "La terza luna" reached No. 1 on the Italian pop charts in April 1963. Cinebox videos exist for "La terza luna" and "I tuoi capricci". Sedaka's Italian diction was impressive; his recordings in Italian had very little American accent. RCA Victor's Italiana branch distributed his records in Italy and released three compilation LPs of Sedaka's Italian recordings. [ citation needed] diMartino, Dave. Singer-Songwriters, Pop Music's Performer-Composers, from A to Zevon, Billboard Books, 1984. Sedaka attended Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, from which he graduated at the age of 17 in 1956. [54] Find sources: "Neil Sedaka"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( October 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

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Unorthodox Live With FiveThirtyEight's Harry Enten and 'How to Be a Muslim' Author Haroon Moghul". Tablet Magazine . Retrieved February 21, 2018. Lincoln, an ordinary, unselective New York City high school, is proud of a galaxy of prominent alumni, who include the playwright Arthur Miller, Representative Elizabeth Holtzman, the authors Joseph Heller and Ken Auletta, the producer Mel Brooks, the singer Neil Diamond and the songwriter Neil Sedaka." A biographical musical, Laughter in the Rain, produced by Bill Kenwright and Laurie Mansfield and starring Wayne Smith as Sedaka, had its world premiere at the Churchill Theatre in the London borough of Bromley on March 4, 2010. Sedaka attended the opening and joined the cast onstage for an impromptu curtain call of the title song. Sedaka was born in Brooklyn, New York. His father, Mordechai "Mac" Sedaka, was a taxi driver of Lebanese Jewish descent. [2] [3] [4] Sedaka's paternal grandparents came to the United States from Istanbul in 1910. [5] [6] [7] Sedaka's mother, Eleanor (née Appel), was an Ashkenazi Jew of Polish and Russian descent. He grew up in Brighton Beach. [8] His father's cousin, Rachel Gorman (née Cohen), daughter of Isaac Cohen and Calo Cohen (née Sedaca or Sedaka), was married to Morris Gorman (né Garmezano; paternal uncle to singer Eydie Gormé). Gormé's mother was of Lebanese Jewish descent. [9] [10] Munro, Ian (April 21, 2008). "The master songwriter turns maestro". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved May 12, 2008.

Today's Mini-Concert – 7/24/2020". 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)

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Neil Sedaka at the Songwriters Hall of Fame". Songwritershalloffame.org. Archived from the original on July 16, 2014 . Retrieved September 28, 2014. Today's Mini-Concert – 3/15/21". YouTube. Archived from the original on November 7, 2021 . Retrieved June 14, 2021. During his 2008 Australian tour, Sedaka premiered a new classical orchestral composition entitled "Joie de Vivre" (Joy of Life). [45] Sedaka also toured the Philippines for his May 17, 2008, concert at the Araneta Coliseum. [46] When Sedaka was not recording his own songs, he and Howard Greenfield were writing for other performers, most notably in their earliest days Connie Francis. Francis began searching for a new hit after her 1958 single " Who's Sorry Now?". She was introduced to Sedaka and Greenfield, who played for her every ballad they had written. Francis began writing in her diary while the two played the last of their songs. After they finished, Francis told them they wrote beautiful ballads but that they were too intellectual for the young generation. Greenfield suggested that they play a song they had written for the Shepherd Sisters. Sedaka protested that Francis would be insulted by being played such a puerile song, but Greenfield reminded him Francis had not accepted their other suggestions and they had nothing to lose. After Sedaka played " Stupid Cupid", Francis told them they had just played her new hit. Francis' rendition of the song reached No. 14 on the Billboard charts, while it topped the UK Singles Chart.