[1] George Andrew Goehring was born July 16, 1933 in Glenside, PA, a Philadelphia suburb, where he began studying classical piano with the intention of becoming a concert pianist.
With this success, he moved to New York, where he was house pianist at Arthur's Café in Greenwich Village and wrote with various lyricists in the Brill Building, beginning with Ira Kosloff (who also co-wrote Elvis’ #1 "I Want You I Need You I Love You").
[1] The Baltimore Sun's theater critic, R.H. “Hal” Gardner, called it “a triumph” and praised the score for its “Gilbert and Sullivan quality.” The play was revived in 1972 for Off-Broadway in New York.
[1] During his years in Maryland, according to Baltimore Sun editor Alan Sea, “George also played an important role in the gay musical community of the 1980s, when he was the piano accompanist for the Baltimore Men's Chorus.” Goehring also operated an antiques store in Waverly, MD, and began collecting antigue commercial art, specialising in hand-painted cigarette and condom tins and other collectibles.
[1] In 2006 Goering teamed up with jazz singer-violinist Nicole Yarling and singer-songwriters Ellen Bukstel and Rod MacDonald to perform “My Life In The Brill Building,” a retrospective concert of Goehring's songs and stories.
If you are a lover of "oldies but goodies" and want to learn more about the creation of pop music in the '60s straight from the horse's mouth (so to speak), then you shouldn't miss this show!!