605 The Angels “My Boyfriend’s Back” 1963

Songwriter Richard Gottehrer “grew up in the Bronx listening to Alan Freed play R&B records on a transistor radio. Trained as a pianist from the age of six, he caught the blues bug early on, and by the age of 13, he was banging out rock ‘n’ roll numbers with a band of classmates at school dances. After earning a History degree at Adelphi University and spending a year or two at law school, Gottehrer realized that his passion for rock ‘n’ roll was not about to abate.” Gottehrer and his writing colleagues, Robert Feldman and Jerry Goldstein, started their own production company so the Angels could record their song, quitting April/Blackwood Music who “thought that ‘Boyfriend’ was a perfect song for their very popular girl group, The Shirelles” (Gary Eskow, Mix, September 2005). 

The Angels “My Boyfriend’s Back”