the jukebox musical \u201cPiece of My Heart: The Bert Berns Story\u201d<\/a> \u2014 opened off-Broadway in 2014 with a book by Daniel Goldfarb \u2014 and Van Zandt and Shaffer as producers.<\/p>\n\u201cBert Berns died so young, so tragically young, that even within the industry, only the insiders know about him. He was a phenomenal talent. The list of songs was remarkable,\u201d Van Zandt told the AP at the time.<\/p>\n
It was Berns who took a liking to guitarist Jimmy Page and introduced him to the Atlantic team, which signed his band Led Zeppelin just months after Berns\u2019 death. Zeppelin recorded \u201cBaby Come on Home (Tribute to Bert Berns),\u201d but the track was released only in 1993.<\/p>\n
Berns was \u201cone of the great originals of the golden age of rhythm and blues,\u201d according to Joel Selvin\u2019s book \u201cHere Comes the Night: The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of Rhythm & Blues.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Songwriter and producer Bert Berns, who had a hand in some of the biggest hits of the 1960s, including co-writing \u201cTwist and Shout\u201d for the Isley Brothers and the plaintive \u201cPiece of My Heart\u201d sung by Janis Joplin, has been inducted posthumously into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Berns, who died […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2014431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[369124,369123,343913,25403,364705,369126,338984,366386,358747,369125,354235],"class_list":["post-2014430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-bang-records","tag-bert-berns","tag-janis-joplin","tag-paul-mccartney","tag-paul-shaffer","tag-piece-of-my-heart","tag-songwriters-hall-of-fame","tag-steven-van-zandt","tag-the-isley-brothers","tag-twist-and-shout","tag-van-morrison"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hitmaker-Bert-Berns-is-posthumously-included-in-Songwriters-Hall-of.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2014431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}