If Will You Love Me Tomorrow is the greatest pop song ever then it's also the best teen pop song written by a teenager.
I think this might win, although Goffin was 21! I had no idea they were so young
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 12 January 2018 23:15 (yesterday) Permalink
this is what immediately came to mind. the best. carole king is the absolute best.
the early / mid 1960s stuff is so so so essential.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY3gr_d8kCg
and this brenda lee cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knrJDz05dcM
― budo jeru, Saturday, 13 January 2018 04:09 (six years ago) link
Jackie DeShannon - Buddy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGoEH2Yve8w
she wasn't an established songwriter at the time, but I can easily imagine this becoming a hit if she'd pitched it to someone like Brenda Lee or Wanda Jackson. she wrote the underrated Brenda Lee song Funny Feelin a few years later when she was 19.
― jesus and figs and science and the foo fighters (unregistered), Sunday, 14 January 2018 22:50 (six years ago) link
How 'bout "Shivers" by Rowland S Howard?
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Sunday, 14 January 2018 23:51 (six years ago) link