Biography
During the formative stage of her professional life, the acclaimed Brill Building tunesmith Ellie Greenwich employed multiple recording aliases, one of which was Ellie Gee. As Ellie Gee & the Jets she issued the 1961 Madison label single "I Go, You Go"/"Red Corvette." Although credited to Greenwich alone, "I Go, You Go" registers as a bland, conventional early-sixties pop-rock trifle whose female backing vocals veer into excessive melodrama. By contrast, "Red Corvette," which Jeff Barry co-wrote prior to becoming Greenwich’s husband and regular songwriting partner, leans more openly on doo-wop conventions, carries greater force, and remains only modestly engaging, its texture enriched by low male nonsense chants and accelerating-car sound effects. The two sides are included on the likely unsanctioned double-CD collection Brill Building Sounds: Recordings 1958-1985, released on the Brill Tone label.