Beautiful: The Carole King Musical delighted me. I’m a big fan of Jerry Goffin and Carole King’s music. I play their compilation CD frequently. Check it out here. The other song writing team in Beautiful that competed with Goffin and King at the Brill Building was Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. I knew they wrote “I Lost That Lovin’ Feelin'” for The Righteous Brothers, but I had no idea how many great songs they produced until I bought Born to Be Together. This CD collects some memorable hits! Who can forget “We’ve Gotta Get Out of This Place” by The Animals? Classic! Do you have a favorite Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil song?
TRACK LIST:
1. BORN TO BE TOGETHER – The Ronettes
2. ANGELICA – Scott Walker
3. LOOKING THROUGH THE EYES OF LOVE – Gene Pitney
4. YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVIN’ FEELIN’ – The Righteous Brothers
5. I’M SATISFIED – Lou Rawls
6. YOU BABY – Len Barry
7. SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES – The Drifters
8. BLESS YOU – Tony Orlando
9. ON BROADWAY – Clyde McPhatter
10. PROUD – Johnny Crawford
11. UPTOWN – The Crystals
12. WE’LL LOVE AGAIN – Ruby & The Romantics
13. LOVE HIM – Doris Day
14. GOOD, GOOD LOVIN’ – Bobby Hebb
15. I WANNA MAKE YOU HAPPY – Dusty Springfield
16. THE GIRL WHO SANG THE BLUES – The Everly Brothers
17. WE’VE GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS PLACE – The Animals
18. SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME – Slade
19. LOVE IS ONLY SLEEPING – The Monkees
20. NEW WORLD COMING – Mama Cass Elliot
21. ROCK AND ROLL LULLABY – B.J. Thomas
22. SOMETHING BETTER – Marianne Faithfull
23. JUST A LITTLE LOVIN’ – Carmen McRae
24. MAKE YOUR OWN KIND OF MUSIC – The Happenings
25. THIS IS A LOVE SONG – Bill Medley
I was leaning towards the Johnny Crawford song but I guess I’d pick You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling as my fab fave from that list!
By the way, who put the bomp?
Bob, the rama dama ding dong.
MAKE YOUR OWN KIND OF MUSIC–but the version I’m familiar with is by Mama Cass.
Deb, I was a big fan of Mama Cass. She carried The Mamas & The Papas.
Great tracks. Wotta duo!
Bill, I had completely forgotten Mann and Weil had written “Just a Little Lovin'” which is one of my favorite songs!
Cap’n Bob beat me to it. Mann & Weil are the only one of the three great songwriting couples of that era (the third was Jeff Barry & Ellie Greenwich) who remained married to each other.
Great songs. I don’t have one favorite, but do like “Uptown” and “On Broadway” (especially the George Benson version).
Jeff, I love the George Benson version of “On Broadway”!
For completist reasons (George already listed the King-Goffin songs last time), here are some Ellie Greenwich-Jeff Barry collaborations (some with Phil Spector):
Da Doo Ron Ron
Be My Baby
Then He Kissed Me
The Kind of Boy You Can’t Forget
Hanky Panky
Baby, I Love You
Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)
Do Wah Diddy Diddy
Chapel of Love
I Wanna Love Him So Bad
Leader of the Pack
Maybe I Know
River Deep – Mountain High
And Jeff Barry co-wrote the classic Tell Laura I Love Her.
A lot of my personal favorites are on this list.
Jeff, I think I have an Ellie Greenwich-Jeff Barry compilation CD around here someplace. I’ll have to search for it.
On this list, River Deep Mountain High, Chapel of Love, Christmas (Darlene Love every year on Letterman), Be My Baby are the tops for me
If co-writing with crazy Phil Spector is allowed, then my all time favourite of course is
River deep, mountain high!
Like all th fantastic songs of that area it has its own wiki entry of course:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Deep_%E2%80%93_Mountain_High
I was a student from 1962 to 1969 (yes, that was way too long …) and in the later days had a room where you could play the music really loud without disturbing anyone (upstairs of a bar …) soall my friends gathered there …
Those were the days!
My 2 favs are You Baby and Make your own kind of music. Many of these I’m not familiar with, at least by name.
Great choice, Wolf. U loved to blast the Ike & Tina Turner version loud too.
Shape of Thngs to come, but I prefer the version by The Yardbirds.
Rick, I love the Yardbirds!