Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil

Barry Mann (n. 1939, USA) Originario di Brooklyn e mancato architetto, inizia a scrivere canzoni sin dalla fine dei '50, ottenendo qualche successo anche come esecutore dei propri brani. Fra il 1959 e il 1962 pubblica una serie di 45 giri, riscuotendo lusinghiero successo con Who Put The Bomp (1961). Lo stesso anno pubblica WHO PUT THE BOMP (ABC/Paramount 1961, USA), con alcune versioni di brani da lui scritti per altri artisti: The Way Of A Clown (per Teddy Randazzo), Sweet Little You (Neil Sedaka), I Love You How You Love Me (Paris Sisters). Sempre nel 1961 conosce e sposa Cynthia Weil anche lei autrice di piccolo successo: è l'inizio di una felicissima collaborazione. Impiegati a tempo pieno alla Aldon Music di Don Kirshner (con Goffin & King e Pomus & Shuman), la coppia muove i primi passi con Tony Orlando (Bless You), James Darren (Mamas Little Lamb), Arthur Alexander (Where Have You Been All My Life). Nell'arco di un decennio i due scrivono più di 50 pezzi da classifica, tra cui la stupenda You've Lost That Lovin'Feeling (n. 1 per i Righteous Brothers, 1964). L'anno successivo gli Animals portano al successo We've Gotta Get Of This Place; e poi è la volta di Paul Revere & The Raiders con Kicks, ancora i Righteous Brothers con Soul & Inspiration, i Monkees con Love Is Only Sleeping e Shapes Of Things To Come, strana composizione per un oscuro gruppo Max Frost & The Troopers. Nel 1969 i due scrivono parecchi pezzi per artisti della Tower, oltre a Make Your Own Kind Of Music per Mama Cass e I Just Can't Help Believing per B.J. Thomas. La collaborazione artistica di Mann e Weil prosegue anche nei '70, seppure con minor successo. Alcuni brani della coppia sono eseguiti da Helen Reddy, B.J. Thomas, Righteous Brothers, Supremes, Three Dog Night. Barry Mann continua anche come interprete e pubblica altri album nei '70, senza tuttavia ottenere lo stesso successo avuto come compositore. Dal 1970 i due lasciano il Brill Building di New York per trasferirsi in California.

Barry Mann (born Barry Imberman; February 9, 1939) is an American songwriter, and part of a successful songwriting partnership with his wife, Cynthia Weil.
He has written or co-written 53 hits in the UK and 98 in the US.

Early life

Mann was born to a Jewish family on February 9, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York City.

Career

His first successful song as a writer was "She Say (Oom Dooby Doom)", a Top 20 chart-scoring song composed for the band the Diamonds in 1959. Mann co-wrote the song with Mike Anthony (Michael Logiudice). In 1961, Mann had his greatest success to that point with "I Love How You Love Me", written with Larry Kolber and a no. 5 scoring single for the band the Paris Sisters, (seven years later, Bobby Vinton's version would score in the Top 10). The same year, Mann himself reached the Top 40 as a performer with a novelty song co-written with Gerry Goffin, "Who Put the Bomp", which parodied the nonsense words of the then-popular doo-wop genre.
Despite his success as a singer, Mann chose to channel his creativity into songwriting, forming a prolific partnership with Weil, a lyricist he met while both were staff songwriters at Don Kirshner and Al Nevin's company Aldon Music, whose offices were located in Manhattan near the famed composing-and-publishing factory the Brill Building. Mann and Weil, who married in 1961, developed some songs intended to be socially conscious, with successes 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 disturbed when "Only In America", a song they had written with the team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and conceived originally for and recorded by the Drifters as a protest against racial prejudice, was re-worked by Leiber and Stoller into an uncontroversial success for Jay & the Americans.)
As of May 2009, Mann's song catalog lists 635 songs. He has received 56 popular music, country, and Rhythm&Blues awards from Broadcast Music Incorporated, and 46 Millionaire Awards for radio performances numbering more than one million plays. 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 movies, most notably "Somewhere Out There", co-written with Weil and James Horner, for the 1986 animated movie An American Tail. Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram performed the song as a duet during the movie's closing credits; their version was released as a single, which scored No. 2 on the Billboards charts and became a "gold"-scoring record. "Somewhere Out There" would win two 1987 Grammy Awards, as Song of the Year and 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" (a film that featured the Weil-penned "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" in a key scene). Mann's other movie work includes the scores for I Never Sang for My Father and Muppet Treasure Island, and songs for National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and Oliver & Company.
Mann co-wrote, with Dan Hill, the song "Sometimes When We Touch," which scored No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.
In 1987, Mann and Weil were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2011, they received the Johnny Mercer Award, the greatest honor from the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Mann and Weil were named among the 2010 recipients of Ahmet Ertegun Award from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Mann and Weil now operate a publishing company named Dyad Music.

Personal life

Mann married Cynthia Weil in August 1961. They have one daughter, Dr. Jenn Mann. They reside in Beverly Hills, California.

Songs written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil

"Absolutely Green" – Dom DeLuise (written for A Troll in Central Park).
"Another Goodbye" – Donna Fargo (co-written with Scott English).
"Black Butterfly" – Deniece Williams.
"Blame It on the Bossa Nova" – Eydie Gorme.
"Bless You" - Tony Orlando.
"Brown Eyed Woman" – Bill Medley.
"Christmas Vacation" – movie 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, The Move.
"Good Time Living" – Three Dog Night.
"Heart" – Kenny Chandler, Wayne Newton.
"Here You Come Again" – Dolly Parton.
"He's Sure the Boy I Love" – The Crystals.
"How Can I Tell Her It's Over" – Andy Williams.
"Hungry" – Paul Revere & the Raiders.
"I Just Can't Help Believing" – B. J. Thomas, Elvis Presley.
"I'm a Survivor" - Jon English
"I'm Gonna Be Strong" – Gene Pitney; Cyndi Lauper.
"It's Getting Better" – Cass Elliot.
"It's Not Easy" – Normie Rowe, Will-O-Bees, Colin Blunstone (as Neil MacArthur).
"I Will Come to You" – Hanson.
"Just a Little Lovin' (Early in the Morning)" – Sarah Vaughan, Dusty Springfield, Carmen McRae, Billy Eckstine, Bobby Vinton, Shelby Lynne.
"Just Once" – James Ingram with Quincy Jones.
"Kicks" – Paul Revere & the Raiders.
"Looking Through the Eyes of Love" – Gene Pitney, Marlena Shaw, The Fortunes, The Partridge Family.
"Love Her" - The Everly Brothers, The Walker Brothers.
"Love Led Us Here" – John Berry, Helen Darling.
"Magic Town" – The Vogues.
"Make Your Own Kind of Music" – "Mama" Cass Elliot.
"Never Gonna Let You Go" – Sérgio Mendes.
"New World Coming - Mama Cass.
"None of Us Are Free" (Mann, Weil, Brenda Russell) – Ray Charles, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Solomon Burke.
"On Broadway" – The Drifters George Benson (written with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller).
"Once Upon a Time in New York City" – (written with Howard Ashman for Oliver and Company).
"Only in America" – Jay and the Americans.
"Proud" – Johnny Crawford.
"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" – Max Frost and the Troopers.
"She's Over Me" – Teddy Pendergrass.
"Something Better" – Marianne Faithfull (written with Gerry Goffin)
"Somewhere Out There" – Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram (written with James Horner for the animated film An American Tail) – a double Grammy Award winner.
"Sweet Sorrow" – Conway Twitty.
"Teenage Has-Been" - Barry Mann, (written with Gerry Goffin)
"Too Many Mondays" – Barry Mann, Wicked Lester (unreleased).
"Uptown" – The Crystals.
"Walking in the Rain" – The Ronettes, The Walker Brothers, Jay and the Americans (written with Phil Spector).
"We Gotta Get out of This Place" – The Animals.
"We're Over" – Johnny Rodriguez.
"Whatever You Imagine" - Wendy Moten (written with James Horner for the live-action/animated film The Pagemaster)
"Welcome To The World" – Dom DeLuise (written for A Troll in Central Park).
"Where have you been (all my life)" - Arthur Alexander also played by Gene Vincent, The Beatles and by Gerry and the Pacemakers
"Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp) - Barry Mann (written with Gerry Goffin)
"A World of Our Own" – Closing theme song from Return to the Blue Lagoon – Surface.
"(You're My) Soul and Inspiration" – The Righteous Brothers.
"You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" – The Righteous Brothers (written with Phil Spector).

Awards

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

Cynthia Weil (born October 18, 1940) is an American songwriter who wrote many songs together with her husband Barry Mann.

Life and career

Weil was born in New York City, and was raised in a Conservative Jewish family. Her father was Morris Weil, a furniture store owner and the son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, and her mother was Dorothy Mendez, who grew up in a Sephardic Jewish family in Brooklyn. Weil trained as an actress and dancer, but soon demonstrated a songwriting ability that led to her collaboration with Barry Mann, whom she married in August 1961. The couple has one daughter, Dr Jenn Mann, AKA "Dr. Jenn". Weil became one of the Brill Building songwriters of the 1960s, and one of the most important writers during the emergence of rock and roll.
She and her husband went on to create songs for many contemporary artists, winning several Grammy Awards as well as Academy Award nominations for their compositions for film. As their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame biography put it, in part: "Mann and Weil's... [works went from] epic ballads ('On Broadway', 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'') to outright rockers ('Kicks', 'We've Gotta Get Out of This Place') [and they also] placed an emphasis on meaningful lyrics in their songwriting. With Weil writing the words and Mann the music, they came up with a number of songs that addressed such serious subjects as racial and economic divides[,] 'Uptown', ...and the difficult reality of making it in the big city ('On Broadway'). 'Only in America'... tackled segregation and racism, making it rather too controversial for the Drifters, who were the intended artists. 'We Gotta Get out of This Place' became an anthem for [the] Vietnam soldier, antiwar protesters, and young people who viewed it as an anthem of greater opportunities."
In 1987, she was inducted with her husband, Mann, into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2004, Mann and Weil's They Wrote That?, a musical revue based on their songs, opened in New York. In it, Mann sang and Weil related stories about the songs and their personal history.
Weil and Mann were named among the 2010 recipients of Ahmet Ertegun Award from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. At the ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria, which was telecast on the Fuse TV cable network, songwriter Carole King inducted Mann and Weil and other songwriting colleagues from the 1950s and early 1960s, including Ellie Greenwich (posthumously) and Jeff Barry, Otis Blackwell (posthumously), Mort Shuman, and Jesse Stone (posthumously). "From the bottom of my heart and with the greatest humility," Ms. Weil said in her acceptance, "I thought you guys would never ask." Eric Burdon of the Animals and Ronnie Spector of the Ronettes performed at the ceremony. In 2011 Mann and Weil received the Johnny Mercer Award—the highest honor from the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
In 2015, Weil published her first novel, I'm Glad I Did, a mystery set in 1963.

Who Put The Bomp - Barry Mann - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXmsLe8t_gg

Lyrics

I'd like to thank the guy
Who wrote the song
That made my baby
Fall in love with me

Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp
Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong
Who put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop
Who put the dip in the dip da dip da dip
Who was that man
I'd like to shake his hand
He made my baby fall in love with me (yeah)

When my baby heard
"Bomp bah bah bomp bah bomp bah bomp bah bomp bomp"
Every word went right into her heart
And when she heard them singin'
"Rama lama lama lama, rama ding dong"
She said we'd never have to part
So

Each time that we're alone
Boogity boogity boogity boogity boogity boogity shoo
Sets my baby's heart all aglow
And every time we dance to
Dip da dip da dip dip da dip da dip
She always says she loves me so
So

Songwriters: Barry Mann / Gerry Goffin

Who Put the Bomp (In the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp) lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

Artist: Barry Mann

Album: Who Put The Bomp

Released: 1961

Genres: Vocal/Easy Listening, Rock, Pop

I Love How You Love Me - Barry Mann - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8XxU4OeiqE

Artist: Barry Mann

Album: Who Put The Bomp

Released: 1961

Genres: Vocal/Easy Listening, Rock, Pop

Barry Mann - Bless You (1962) - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDPgycnOCBo

Artist: Barry Mann

Album: Who Put The Bomp

Released: 1961

Genres: Vocal/Easy Listening, Rock, Pop

Barry Mann - You´ve lost that lovin´feelin´ - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNuoZf9OnMQ

Lyrics

You never close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips
And there's no tenderness like before in your fingertips
You're trying hard not to show it
But baby, baby I know it

You lost that lovin' feelin'
Whoa, that lovin' feelin'
You lost that lovin' feelin'
Now it's gone, gone, gone, woh

Now there's no welcome look in your eyes when I reach for you
And now you're starting to criticize little things I do
It makes me just feel like crying
'Cause baby, something beautiful's dyin'

You lost that lovin' feelin'
Whoa, that lovin' feelin'
You lost that lovin' feelin'
Now it's gone, gone, gone, woh

Baby, baby, I'd get down on my knees for you
If you would only love me like you used to do, yeah
We had a love, a love, a love you don't find everyday
So don't, don't, don't, don't let it slip away

Baby, baby, baby, baby
I beg you please, please, please, please
I need your love, need your love
I need your love, I need your love
So bring it on back, so bring it on back
Bring it on back, bring it on back

Bring back that lovin' feelin'
Whoa, that lovin' feelin'
Bring back that lovin' feelin'
'Cause it's gone, gone, gone
And I can't go on, woh

Bring back that lovin' feelin'
Whoa, that lovin' feelin'
Bring back that lovin' feelin'
'Cause it's gone, gone, gone

Songwriters: Barry Mann / Phil Spector / Cynthia Weil

Artist: The Righteous Brothers

Album: Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Released: 2005

Genre: Pop

Awards: Grammy Hall of Fame