Barry Mann
b. Barry Iberman, 9 February 1939, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. One of the leading pop songwriters of his generation. Although trained as an architect, Mann began his career in music following a summer singing engagement in the Catskills resort. He initially composed material for Elvis Presley's publishers Hill & Range, before briefly collaborating with Howard Greenfield. In 1961, he enjoyed a Top 10 hit in his own right with "Who Put The Bomp (In The Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)", but thereafter it was as a composer that he dominated the Billboard Hot 100. During the same year as his solo hit, Mann found a new songwriting partner in Cynthia Weil, whom he soon married. Their first success together was Tony Orlando's "Bless You" (1961), a simple but effective love song, which endeared them to their new employer, bubblegum genius Don Kirschner, who housed a wealth of songwriting talent in the cubicles of his Brill Building offices. With intense competition from those other husband-and-wife teams Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, and Gerry Goffin and Carole King, Mann and Weil responded with a wealth of classic songs which still sound fresh and impressive to this day.
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Albums
- (2000) Soul & Inspiration
Top Tracks
- Who Put The Bomp
- Just Once
- Somewhere Out There
- You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling
- Sometimes When We Touch
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