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BLP sources|date=April 2008 Barry Mann (born Barry Imberman , 9 February 1939, Brooklyn , New York City|New York )Allmusic|class=artist|id=p19137|pure_url=yes Allmusic biography by Steve Kurutz is an United States|American songwriter , and part of a successful songwriting partnership with his wife, Cynthia Weil .

Career


Mann and lyricist Cynthia Weil operated a publishing company called Dyad Music.cite web|url= http://www.mann-weil.com/contactinfo.php|title=Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil Contact Info|accessdate=2009-05-07 Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot Mann's first hit single as a writer was "She Say (Oom Dooby Doom)", a Top 20 song for The Diamonds in 1959. Mann co-wrote the song with Gerry Goffin . In 1961, Mann had his biggest hit to that time with " I Love How You Love Me ", written with Larry Kolber and a No. 5 single for The Paris Sisters . (Seven years later, Bobby Vinton would take the song into the Top 10.) Also in 1961, Mann himself hit the Top 40 as a performer with a novelty song|novelty song co-written with Goffin, " Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)|Who Put The Bomp ", which parody|parodied the nonsense words of the then-popular doo-wop genre and made the Top 40.cite book
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Despite his success as a singer with "Who Put the Bomp", Mann chose to channel the bulk of his creativity into songwriting, forming a prolific partnership with Weil, a lyricist he met while both were staff songwriters at Don Kirshner's and Al Nevin's Aldon Music , whose offices were located near the famed composing-and-publishing factory, the Brill Building. Mann and Weil, who married in 1961, helped pioneer the more socially conscious side of the Brill Building -era songbook with hits such as "Uptown" by The Crystals , " We Gotta Get out of This Place " by the Animals , "Magic Town" by the Vogues and "Kicks" by Paul Revere & the Raiders. (Mann and Weil were upset when "Only in America", a song they'd written with the team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and originally conceived for and recorded by The Drifters as a cynical broadside against racial prejudice, was re-worked by Leiber and Stoller into a uncontroversial hit for Jay & the Americans.)

as of|May 2009, Mann's song catalog lists 635 songs.cite web|url= http://songwritershalloffame.org/index.php/songs/C110/|title=Barry Mann Song Catalog|publisher=Songwriters Hall of Fame|accessdate=2009-05-07 He has received 56 pop, country, and R& B awards from Broadcast Music Incorporated , and 46 Millionaire Awards for radio performances numbering over one million plays.cite web|url= http://www.mann-weil.com/biographies_barry.html|title=Barry Mann's Bio|accessdate=2009-05-07 Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot The song " You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' ", co-written with Weil and Phil Spector , was the most played song of the 20th century, with more than 14 million plays.
Mann has composed songs for film s, most notably " Somewhere Out There (James Horner song)|Somewhere Out There ", co-written with Weil and James Horner, for the 1986 animated hit "An American Tail". Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram, who performed the song as a duet over the film's closing credits, saw their version released as a single, which reached No. 2 on the Billboards charts and became a gold record. "Somewhere Out There" would win two 1987 Grammy Award s, as Grammy Award for Song of the Year|Song Of The Year and Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media|Best Song Written for a Motion Picture or Television . "Somewhere Out There" was also nominated for a 1986 Oscar as best song, but lost to "Take My Breath Away" from "Top Gun". Mann's other film work includes the score s for I Never Sang for My Father and Muppet Treasure Island , and songs for '' National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and Oliver and Company .

In 1987, Mann and Weil were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame . In 2011 they received the Johnny Mercer Award – the highest honor from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. cite web|url= http://www.soundspike.com/blog/popnotes/2381-garth-brooks-news-garth-brooks-billy-joel-perform-together-during-songwriters-hall-of-fame-ceremony/ |title=Garth Brooks, Billy Joel perform together during Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony |publisher=Soundspike.com |date=2011-06-17 |accessdate=2012-04-16

Mann and Weil were named among the 2010 recipients of Ahmet Ertegun Award from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame .cite web| url = http://www.rockhall.com/induction2010/ | title = Congratulations to the 2010 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees& #33; | accessdate = 2009-12-15

Songs written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil


  • "A World of Our Own" - Closing theme song from Return to the Blue Lagoon - Surface (band)|Surface

  • "Absolutely Green" - Dom DeLuise (written for A Troll in Central Park )

  • "Black Butterfly" - Deniece Williams

  • " Blame It on the Bossa Nova " - Eydie Gorme

  • "Brown Eyed Woman" - Bill Medley

  • "Christmas Vacation" - film title song

  • "Coldest Night of the Year" - Twice As Much featuring Vashti Bunyan

  • " Don't Know Much " - Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt (written with Tom Snow)

  • "Don't Make My Baby Blue" - The Shadows

  • "Good Time Living" - Three Dog Night

  • " Here You Come Again (song)|Here You Come Again " - Dolly Parton

  • "He's Sure the Boy I Love" - The Crystals

  • " Hungry (Paul Revere & the Raiders song)|Hungry " - Paul Revere & the Raiders

  • " I Just Can't Help Believing " – B. J. Thomas , Elvis Presley

  • " I'm Gonna Be Strong " - Gene Pitney ; Cyndi Lauper

  • "It's Getting Better" - Cass Elliot

  • "It's Not Easy" - Colin Blunstone

  • " I Will Come to You " - Hanson (band)|Hanson

  • "Just a Little Lovin' (Early in the Morning)" - Dusty Springfield , Carmen McRae , Billy Eckstine , Bobby Vinton , Shelby Lynne

  • "Just Once" - James Ingram with Quincy Jones

  • " Kicks (song)|Kicks " - Paul Revere & the Raiders

  • "Looking Through the Eyes of Love" - Gene Pitney , Marlena Shaw , The Partridge Family

  • "Love Led Us Here" - John Berry , Helen Darling

  • "Magic Town" - The Vogues

  • " Make Your Own Kind of Music (song)|Make Your Own Kind of Music " - Cass Elliot|"Mama" Cass Elliot

  • " Never Gonna Let You Go (Sérgio Mendes song)|Never Gonna Let You Go " - Sérgio Mendes

  • "None of Us Are Free" (Mann, Weil, Brenda Russell ) - Ray Charles , Lynyrd Skynyrd , Solomon Burke

  • " On Broadway (song)|On Broadway " - The Drifters George Benson (written with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller )

  • "Only in America" - Jay and the Americans

  • "Proud" - Johnny Crawford

  • " Rock and Roll Lullaby (song)|Rock and Roll Lullaby " - B. J. Thomas

  • "Saturday Night at the Movies" - The Drifters

  • "Shades of Gray" and "Love is Only Sleeping" - The Monkees

  • " Shape of Things to Come (song)|Shape of Things to Come " - Max Frost and the Troopers

  • "She's Over Me" - Teddy Pendergrass

  • " Somewhere Out There (James Horner song)|Somewhere Out There " - Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram (written with James Horner for the film , An American Tail ) - a double Grammy Award winner

  • "Sweet Sorrow" - Conway Twitty

  • "Too Many Mondays" - Barry Mann, Wicked Lester (unreleased)

  • "Uptown" - The Crystals

  • " Walking in the Rain (The Ronettes song)|Walking in the Rain " - The Ronettes

  • " We Gotta Get out of This Place " - The Animals

  • " We're Over " - Johnny Rodriguez

  • " (You're My) Soul and Inspiration " - The Righteous Brothers

  • " You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' " - The Righteous Brothers (written with Phil Spector)


    • See also


  • Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media

  • Grammy Award for Song of the Year

  • Academy Award for Best Original Song

  • List of Christmas carols

  • List of 1960s one-hit wonders in the United States


    • References


    Reflist

    External links


  • Allmusic|class=artist|id=p19137|pure_url=yes Barry Mann biography at Allmusic website

  • http://www.mann-weil.com Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil Official website

  • http://sodajerker.com/episode-6-barry-mann-and-cynthia-weil Audio interview with Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil on the Sodajerker on Songwriting podcast


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