{"id":150626,"date":"2025-09-12T04:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T04:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/150626\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T04:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T04:38:11","slug":"bert-berns-inducted-into-songwriters-hall-of-fame-penned-twist-shout-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/150626\/","title":{"rendered":"Bert Berns Inducted Into Songwriters Hall Of Fame; Penned &#8216;Twist &#038; Shout&#8217;, More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bert-berns\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bert-berns\" data-tag=\"bert-berns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bert Berns<\/a>, the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/twist-and-shout\/\" id=\"auto-tag_twist-and-shout\" data-tag=\"twist-and-shout\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twist and Shout<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/piece-of-my-heart\/\" id=\"auto-tag_piece-of-my-heart\" data-tag=\"piece-of-my-heart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Piece of My Heart<\/a>\u201d and \u201cHang On, Sloopy\u201d songwriter who died of heart failure in 1967 at 38, has been inducted posthumously into The <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/songwriters-hall-of-fame\/\" id=\"auto-tag_songwriters-hall-of-fame\" data-tag=\"songwriters-hall-of-fame\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Songwriters Hall of Fame<\/a>, the Hall announced today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBerns contributed some of the most enduring songs in the pop and rock canon including \u201cEverybody Needs Somebody to Love,\u201d \u201cTell Him,\u201d \u201cI Want Candy,\u201d \u201cCry to Me,\u201d \u201cI\u2019ll Be a Liar,\u201d \u201cCry Baby\u201d and \u201cHeart Be Still.\u201d His songs were recorded by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Solomon Burke, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Otis Redding, David Bowie, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Isley Brothers, The Moody Blues, Wilson Pickett, Melissa Etheridge, Gene Pitney, The Animals, the Yardbirds, The Strangeloves, Dusty Springfield, The Exciters and others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA producer as well as a songwriter, Berns came to the attention of Atlantic Records chiefs Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler in 1963 for his work with Burke. He joined the label as a producer, replacing the legendary Jerry Leiber &amp; Mike Stoller. In 1965, he started his own rock \u2018n\u2019 roll label, Bang Records, whose roster included Neil Diamond, Van Morrison and The McCoys. The following year he established R&amp;B and soul music label Shout Records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAn induction ceremony at New York City\u2019s 54 Below cabaret club was held Thursday night, hosted by former longtime David Letterman sidekick Paul Shaffer and Berns\u2019 son Brett and daughter Cassandra. Tributes included video messages from SHOF inductees Paul McCartney and Van Morrison. Guests included SHOF inductee Steve Miller and Steven Van Zandt, with live performances by Cassandra Berns, singer Betty Harris, Mary Bridget Davies (A Night with Janis Joplin) and stars from the 2014 Off Broadway musical Piece of My Heart: The Bert Berns Story including Bryan Fenkart, Linda Hart and Teresa Gattison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEstablished in 1969, the Songwriters Hall of Fame honors those whose work represents a spectrum of the most beloved songs from the world\u2019s popular music songbook. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bert Berns, the \u201cTwist and Shout,\u201d \u201cPiece of My Heart\u201d and \u201cHang On, Sloopy\u201d songwriter who died of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[92903,88,216,92904,92905,92906],"class_list":["post-150626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-bert-berns","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-piece-of-my-heart","tag-songwriters-hall-of-fame","tag-twist-and-shout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}