Cynthia Weil, the prolific lyricist who wrote dozens of indelible pop hits with husband Barry Mann over a six-decade profession has died at 82. In keeping with the Related Press, Weil’s loss of life of undisclosed causes was confirmed on Friday (June 2) by Interdependence Public Relations, which represents Mann’s daughter, Dr. Jenn Mann.
Weil and Mann have been one of the crucial formidable songwriting groups to arrange residence at Don Kirshner’s Aldon Music on 1650 Broadway in Manhattan within the Nineteen Sixties, which housed fellow pop songwriting powerhouses equivalent to Carole King and Gerry Goffin. Weil’s tear-stained ballads about younger love, timeless devotion and social struggles embody such classics because the Crystals’ “Uptown,” the Drifters’ “On Broadway,” The Righteous Brothers’ “You’ve Misplaced That Lovin’ Feelin’” and the Animals’ anti-war anthem “We Gotta Get Out of This Place.”
Longtime good friend King paid homage to Weil in a press release that featured a picture of her with Mann, Weil and her then-husband Goffin at a BMI dinner in 1962, writing, “We misplaced the lovely, sensible lyricist Cynthia Weil Mann… The 4 of us have been shut, caring pals regardless of our fierce competitors to jot down the subsequent hit for an artist with a #1 music. Generally we wrote in numerous combos, e.g., Mann and Goffin ‘Who Put The Bomp?’ and King and Weil ‘One To One.’ Cynthia’s excessive skilled normal made us all higher songwriters. My favourite Cynthia lyric is, “Just a bit lovin’ early within the mornin’ beats a cup of espresso for startin’ out the day.” If we’re fortunate, we all know that is true, however she wrote it — after which she rhymed “mornin’” with “yawnin’” within the subsequent verse. Could the legacy of lyrics by Cynthia Weil proceed to talk to and for generations to return. Relaxation in peace with love and gratitude.”
Weil was born on Oct. 18, 1940 in New York Metropolis and studied ballet and piano as a baby, however after graduating from Sarah Lawrence College with a theater main she scored a job working for composer Frank Loesser at 20 and shortly met Mann, whom she married in 1961. After scoring their first hit that 12 months with Tony Orlando’s “Bless You,” the pair turned common collaborators with “Wall of Sound” producer Phil Spector, with whom they labored on the Ronettes’ “Strolling within the Rain” and the Crystals’ “He’s Certain the Boy I Love.”
They landed their most enduring chart-topper in 1965 with the blue-eyed soul smash “You’ve Misplaced That Lovin’ Feelin’,” a No. 1 hit produced by Spector that has been lined dozens of instances and have become the most-played music on radio and TV within the twentieth century in accordance with BMI.
The width and breadth of their songwriting ranged from lounge singers Eydie Gorme (“Blame it on the Bossa Nova”) and her duet associate Steve Lawrence (“Don’t Be Afraid, Little Darlin’”), to pop group Jay and the People (“Solely in America,” a collaboration with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller), rock band Paul Revere & the Raiders (the anti-drug tune “Kicks”), singing TV group The Partridge Household (“I Actually Need to Know You” and “I’m on the Highway”) and British siren Dusty Springfield (“Only a Little Lovin’” from her iconic 1969 Dusty in Memphis album).
The Seventies introduced collabs with rockers Blood Sweat & Tears (“So Lengthy Dixie”), pop/nation singer B.J. Thomas (“Right here You Come Once more”) and the Grass Roots (“Mamacita”), as their sizzling streak continued into the Eighties with Invoice Medley’s “Don’t Know A lot,” which was a No. 2 hit for Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville in 1989, profitable a Grammy in 1990 for greatest pop efficiency by a duo or group with vocal. They did it once more in 1981 with the Quincy Jones/James Ingram ballad “Simply As soon as,” which hit No. 17 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 and was nominated for a greatest male pop vocal efficiency Grammy in 1982.
Weil and Mann additionally wrote hits for Dionne Warwick (“By no means Gonna Let You Go”), Bette Midler (“All I Have to Know”), Jeffrey Osborne (“We’re Going All of the Means”), the Pointer Sisters (“Child Come and Get It”) and Ronstadt and James Ingram (“Someplace Out There”), a No. 2 hit they collaborated on with James Horner for the animated film An American Tail that gained Grammys in 1988 for music of the 12 months and greatest music written particularly for a movement image or tv.
She additionally scored hits on her personal or with different writers for the Pointers (“He’s So Shy”), Barry Manilow (“Someplace Down the Highway”), Lionel Richie (“Working with the Evening,” “Love Will Conquer All”), Peabo Bryson (“If Ever You’re in My Arms Once more”), Chaka Khan (“By means of the Hearth”), Sheena Easton (“So Far So Good”) and Martina McBride (“Flawed Once more”).
Weil acquired the Ahmet Ertegun Award on the 2010 Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame induction (which she shared with Mann), and was inducted into the Songwriters Corridor of Fame in 1987 and landed the first-ever Nationwide Academy of Songwriters Life Achievement Award (each with Mann), in addition to the Songwriting Corridor of Fame’s highest honor, the Johnny Mercer Award in 2011. Mann & Weil acquired a trustees award from the Recording Academy in 2015. She is survived by Mann, 84, and their daughter, Jenn.