Barry Mann

"There's nothing I can do to keep from crying 'cause that red-haired vixen gonna take her man." All right, number four.

Uh, Tim Curry sang A Professional Pirate in Muppets Treasure Island, written by Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann.

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Uh, the line is, "Now take Sir Francis Drake, the Spanish all despise him." I'll give you the choices.

But anyway, you get to, yeah, you get to see that old mantra and it's kind of cool.

Yeah, I do thoroughly enjoy the ode to On Broadway by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil in collaboration with Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller at the end of Lamb.

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It hit number five on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, spent seven weeks at number one on the Billboard R&B charts, hit number two in the U.K., In 1989, Linda Ronstand and Aaron Neville released Don't Know Much.

This transformed a previously recorded Barry Mann song into a love song.

And hit number two in America on the Billboard Albums Chart, hit number two on the UK Singles Chart, hit number one on the Billboard Adult Contemporary Chart, and also hit number one in Ireland.

And it won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.

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written by the Jewish husband and wife Brill Building, songwriting duo of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil.

He brought in another Brooklyn Jewish native, Gary Klein, to produce the song and her album.

It made the top 20 pop album charts, spawning the first top 10 pop hit for Dolly Parton.

Other country singers had enjoyed crossover success, including Patsy Cline and Glen Campbell, but Parton consciously set out to transform herself into a pop star.

She hired an L.A.-based manager and recorded a single written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil.

The husband-wife duo behind Radio Gold like The Righteous Brothers, You've Lost That Love and Feeling, released in 1977, Here You Come Again, became Parton's first million seller.

She later did even better with Pop Hits, 9 to 5, and Islands in the Stream with Kenny Rogers, both of which topped the top 100.

My dad knew it was going to be a crossover hit.

It was actually written by Cynthia while, and yeah, Oh, my God, I'm Barry Mann.

And they were friends with my dad, and I'm friends with their daughter, which is so crazy, like the small world of all of it and the history of all of it.

But that song took her from country pop, you know, country star into being a crossover pop star.

Originally, this tune was actually supposed to be a comeback hit for Brenda Lee, another country fried singer who had become successful with popular music.

Yes, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weill wrote this song.

It was a rare example of a Dolly Parton hit that was not penned by Dolly Parton.

It was the title track of an album she did in 77, where there are three Dolly Partons on the cover, all looking very happy in a red button shirt and jeans.

Other country singers had enjoyed crossover success, including Patsy Cline and Glen Campbell, but Parton consciously set out to transform herself into a pop star.

She hired an L.A.-based manager and recorded a single written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil.

The husband-wife duo behind Radio Gold like The Righteous Brothers, You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin', released in 1977, Here You Come Again, became Parton's first million seller.

She later did even better with pop hits 9 to 5 in Island's Industry and with Kenny Rogers, both of which topped the top 100.