Ellie Gee & The Jets

Ellie Gee was one of several pseudonyms that top Brill Building songwriter Ellie Greenwich recorded under during her early career. Under the name Ellie Gee & the Jets, she put out a 1961 single on the Madison label, "I Go, You Go"/"Red Corvette." "I Go, You Go," though a Greenwich composition, is a mediocre and formulaic early-'60s pop/rock ditty, with some annoyingly histrionic female backup vocals. "Red Corvette," co-written by future Greenwich writing partner/husband Jeff Barry, is far more doo wop-influenced and gutsier, though still not a very interesting song, embellished by deep male nonsense vocals and zooming car sound effects. Both sides of the 45 can be heard on the probably unauthorized Ellie Greenwich double-CD compilation Brill Building Sounds: Recordings 1958-1985, on the Brill Tone label. ~ Richie Unterberger