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Cynthia Weil (born October 18 1940, New York
New York City

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) is a prominent American
United States

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 songwriter
Songwriter

File:Beethoven.jpgA songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics, as well the musical composition or melody to songs. One who writes only lyrics is a lyricist, while one who writes only music is a composer....
. She is famous for having written many songs together with Barry Mann
Barry Mann

Barry Mann is an United States songwriter, and part of one of the most prolific songwriting partnerships in the world of rock and roll music....
.

Weil was trained as an actress
Actor

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 and dancer but soon demonstrated a songwriting ability that led to her collaboration with Barry Mann
Barry Mann

Barry Mann is an United States songwriter, and part of one of the most prolific songwriting partnerships in the world of rock and roll music....
 whom she would eventually marry
Marriage

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. Weil became one of the Brill Building
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 songwriters of the 1960s, and one of the most important writers during the emergence of rock and roll
Rock and roll

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.

She and her husband went on to create song
Song

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s for numerous contemporary artists
Musician

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, winning a number of Grammy Award
Grammy Award

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s and Academy Award
Academy Awards

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 nominations for their compositions for film
Film

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.

In 1987, she was inducted with her husband, Mann, into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
Songwriters Hall of Fame

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Cynthia Weil (born October 18 1940, New York
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
) is a prominent American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 songwriter
Songwriter

File:Beethoven.jpgA songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics, as well the musical composition or melody to songs. One who writes only lyrics is a lyricist, while one who writes only music is a composer....
. She is famous for having written many songs together with Barry Mann
Barry Mann

Barry Mann is an United States songwriter, and part of one of the most prolific songwriting partnerships in the world of rock and roll music....
.

Weil was trained as an actress
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 and dancer but soon demonstrated a songwriting ability that led to her collaboration with Barry Mann
Barry Mann

Barry Mann is an United States songwriter, and part of one of the most prolific songwriting partnerships in the world of rock and roll music....
 whom she would eventually marry
Marriage

Marriage is a social, spirituality, or law union of individuals. This union may also be called matrimony, while the ceremony that marks its beginning is usually called a wedding and the married status created is sometimes called wedlock....
. Weil became one of the Brill Building
Brill Building

The Brill Building is an office building located at 1619 Broadway in New York City, just north of Times Square. The Brill Building was intended as a financial office space for brokers and bankers....
 songwriters of the 1960s, and one of the most important writers during the emergence of rock and roll
Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its roots lay mainly in rhythm and blues, Country music, folk music, gospel music, and jazz....
.

She and her husband went on to create song
Song

A song is a musical musical composition which contains vocal parts that are performed, 'sung,' and feature words , commonly accompanied by musical instruments ....
s for numerous contemporary artists
Musician

A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
, winning a number of Grammy Award
Grammy Award

The Grammy Awards ?or Grammys?are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry....
s and Academy Award
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
 nominations for their compositions for film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
.

In 1987, she was inducted with her husband, Mann, into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
Songwriters Hall of Fame

The Songwriters Hall of Fame is an arm of the National Academy of Popular Music. It was founded in 1969 by songwriter Johnny Mercer and music publishers Abe Olman and Howie Richmond....
.

Songs written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil

  • "A World of Our Own" - Closing theme song from Return to the Blue Lagoon
    Return to the Blue Lagoon

    Return to the Blue Lagoon is a 1991 in film English language romance film and adventure film starring Milla Jovovich and Brian Krause, produced and directed by William A....
     - Surface
    Surface (band)

    Surface was an United States rhythm and blues and pop music group from the mid 1980s to the early 1990s best known for its #1 pop music & Rhythm and blues hit record "The First Time ."...
  • "Black Butterfly" - Deniece Williams
    Deniece Williams

    Deniece "Niecy" Williams is a Grammy Awards of 1983-winning United States singer, songwriter and record producer who achieved success in the 1970s and 1980s....
  • "Blame It on the Bossa Nova
    Blame It on the Bossa Nova

    "Blame it on the Bossa Nova" is a 1963 hit song performed by Eydie Gorm?. It reached #7 on the US charts and #32 on the UK charts. She also recorded the song in Spanish, ?C?lpale a la bossa nova.? The song was written by Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann....
    " – Eydie Gormé
    Eydie Gormé

    Eydie Gorme is an United States singer credited heavily, along with husband Steve Lawrence, with helping to keep the classic Traditional pop music repertoire alive and well....
  • "Christmas Vacation" - Title song for the movie of the same name
  • "Don't Know Much
    Don't Know Much

    "Don't Know Much" is a song written by Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil and Tom Snow and made famous when performed as a duet by Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville on Ronstadt's 1989 album Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind....
    " – Aaron Neville
    Aaron Neville

    Aaron Neville is an United States soul music and Rhythm and blues singer. He made his debut in 1966 with the hit single "Tell It Like It Is", a Number One hit on the Billboard R&B charts....
     & Linda Ronstadt
    Linda Ronstadt

    Maria Linda Ronstadt , known as Linda Ronstadt, is an United States popular music Singing and entertainer whose vocal styles in a variety of genres have resonated with the general public over the course of her four-decade career....
     (also, earlier, Bill Medley
    Bill Medley

    William Thomas "Bill" Medley is an United States singer and songwriter, best known as one half of The Righteous Brothers singing duet ....
     and Bette Midler
    Bette Midler

    Bette Midler is an American singing, actress and comedienne, also known as The Divine Miss M. During her career, she has won four Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, and a Tony Awards, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards....
    )
  • "He's Sure the Boy I Love" – The Crystals
    The Crystals

    The Crystals were a New York City singing group and are considered one of the defining acts of the girl group era of the first half of the 1960s....
  • "Here You Come Again" – Dolly Parton
    Dolly Parton

    Dolly Rebecca Parton is a Grammy Award-winning United Statesn singer-songwriter, author, actress and philanthropist, known for her prolific work in country music....
  • "I Just Can't Help Believin'" – B. J. Thomas
    B. J. Thomas

    B. J. Thomas is an American popular singer known for his chart-topping hits in the 1960s and 1970s....
    , Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  • "I'm Gonna Be Strong" – Gene Pitney
    Gene Pitney

    Gene Francis Alan Pitney was an American singer-songwriter. He was also an accomplished guitarist, piano, drummer and skilled sound engineer. In 2002, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame....
     and covered by Cyndi Lauper
    Cyndi Lauper

    Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an Music of the United States Grammy- and Emmy award winning singer-songwriter and actress. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual, and became the first artist to have four top-five singles released from one album....
  • "I Will Come to You
    I Will Come to You

    "I Will Come to You" is a song written and performed by the United States pop rock band Hanson . It was the third hit single from the band's debut album Middle of Nowhere ....
    " - Hanson
    Hanson (band)

    Hanson is an American pop rock Band formed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oklahoma by brothers Isaac Hanson, Taylor Hanson, and Zac Hanson. They are best known for the 1997 hit song "MMMBop" from their major label debut album Middle of Nowhere that earned three Grammy nominations....
  • "Just a Little Lovin' (Early in the Morning)" - Dusty Springfield
    Dusty Springfield

    Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien, Officer of the Order of the British Empire , known as Dusty Springfield, was a leading pop music singer and entertainer....
    , Carmen McRae
    Carmen McRae

    Carmen Mercedes McRae was an United States jazz singer, composer, pianist, and actress. Considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century, it was her behind-the-beat phrasing and her ironic interpretations of song lyrics that made her memorable....
    , Billy Eckstine
    Billy Eckstine

    William Clarence ?Billy? Eckstein was an American singer of ballads and bandleader of the Swing Era. Eckstine's smooth baritone and distinctive vibrato broke down barriers throughout the 1940s, first as leader of the original bop big-band, then as the first romantic black male in popular music....
  • "Just Once" - James Ingram
    James Ingram

    James Ingram is an United States Soul music musician. He is best-known as a vocalist. He is also a self-taught musician who plays piano, guitar, bass guitar, Drum kit and synthesizer....
     with Quincy Jones
    Quincy Jones

    Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. , is an United States music Conductor , record producer, musical arranger, film composer and trumpeter. During five decades in the entertainment industry, Jones has earned a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991....
  • "Kicks" – Paul Revere & the Raiders
    Paul Revere & the Raiders

    Paul Revere and the Raiders is an United States rock and roll band that saw enormous mainstream success in the second half of the 1960s and earlier 1970s, best-known for hits like "Indian Reservation " , "Steppin' Out" & "Just Like Me" , "Kicks" , "Let Me" , and "Hungry " ....
  • "Let Me In" (Rick Derringer/Cynthia Weil) - Derringer
    Rick Derringer

    Rick Derringer is an American guitarist, Singer, and entertainer. He is perhaps best known for the songs "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo" and "Real American"....
  • "Looking Through the Eyes of Love" - Gene Pitney
    Gene Pitney

    Gene Francis Alan Pitney was an American singer-songwriter. He was also an accomplished guitarist, piano, drummer and skilled sound engineer. In 2002, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame....
    , Marlena Shaw
    Marlena Shaw

    Marlena Shaw is a singer. Born Marlina Burgess in 1942, New Rochelle, New York. Marlena Shaw began her singing career in the 1960s and is still singing today....
  • "Love is Only Sleeping" - The Monkees
    The Monkees

    The Monkees were a pop singing quartet assembled in Los Angeles in 1965 in music for the United States television series The Monkees , which aired from 1966 to 1968....
  • "Magic Town" – The Vogues
    The Vogues

    The Vogues were an United States singing quartet from Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania suburb....
  • "Make Your Own Kind of Music" – "Mama" Cass Elliot
    Cass Elliot

    Cass Elliot , born Ellen Naomi Cohen, was a noted United States singer, best remembered as Mama Cass of the pop quartet The Mamas & the Papas....
  • "Never Gonna Let You Go
    Never Gonna Let You Go (Sérgio Mendes song)

    "Never Gonna Let You Go" is the title of a popular song from 1983 credited to Brazil musician and bandleader S?rgio Mendes. The song's vocalists are Joe Pizzulo and Leza Miller....
    " - Sérgio Mendes
    Sergio Mendes

    S?rgio Santos Mendes, Pronunciation. , is a Grammy Award-winning List of Brazilian musicians. He has released over thirty-five albums, and plays bossa nova heavily crossed with jazz and funk....
     and Dionne Warwick
    Dionne Warwick

    Dionne Warwick , is an American singer, actress, activist, United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, former United States Ambassador of Health, and humanitarian....
  • "None of Us Are Free" (Mann, Weil, Brenda Russell
    Brenda Russell

    Brenda Russell is an African American singer-songwriter and keyboardist. Known for her eclectic musical style, her recordings have encompassed several different genres, including pop music, soul music, jazz and adult contemporary....
    ) - Ray Charles
    Ray Charles

    Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
    , Solomon Burke
    Solomon Burke

    Solomon Burke is an United States Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter. During the half-century that he has performed, he has drawn from his roots: Gospel , soul music, and blues , as well as developing his own style in a time when Rhythm and blues, and rock were still in their infancy....
  • "On Broadway" – The Drifters
    The Drifters

    The Drifters are a long-lived American doo wop/R&B vocal group with a peak in popularity from 1953 to 1962, though several splinter Drifters continue to perform today....
     and later George Benson
    George Benson

    George Benson is an American musician, whose recording career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist. He is however, better known to the public at large as a Pop music and R&B singer, famous for such hits as "Give Me the Night", "Lady Love Me ", "Turn Your Love Around", "Inside Love", "In Your Eyes", and "This Masquerade", among...
  • "Only in America" – Jay and the Americans
    Jay and the Americans

    Jay and the Americans were a pop music group popular in the 1960s. Their initial lineup consisted of John "Jay" Traynor, Howard Kane , Kenny Vance and Sandy Deanne , though their greatest success on the Billboard magazine came after Traynor had been replaced as lead singer by Jay Black....
  • "Running with the Night" (Lionel Richie & Cynthia Weil) - Lionel Richie
    Lionel Richie

    Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. is an Academy Award and Grammy award-winning United States singer, songwriter, record producer who has sold more than 100 million records....
  • "Remember" - Song from Movie Troy
    Troy

    Troy is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle, and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer....
     - Covered by Josh Groban
    Josh Groban

    Joshua Winslow Groban is a Grammy-nominated American singer-songwriter. He has concentrated his career so far mostly in concert singing and recordings, although he has stated that he wishes to pursue musical theater in the future....
  • "Shades of Gray
    Shades of Gray (song)

    Shades of Gray was written in 1967 by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and was recorded by The Monkees for their 1967 album Headquarters , the first in which the group played all its own instruments ....
    " - The Monkees
    The Monkees

    The Monkees were a pop singing quartet assembled in Los Angeles in 1965 in music for the United States television series The Monkees , which aired from 1966 to 1968....
  • "Shape of Things to Come
    Shape of Things to Come (song)

    "Shape of Things to Come" is a song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, most famously performed by Max Frost and the Troopers on their 1968 album Shape of Things to Come ....
    " – Max Frost and the Troopers
    Max Frost and the Troopers

    Max Frost and The Troopers was a fictional rock music group created for the exploitation film Wild in the Streets, released in 1968. The film featured Christopher Jones as the highly influential singer Max Frost....
  • "Uptown" – The Crystals
    The Crystals

    The Crystals were a New York City singing group and are considered one of the defining acts of the girl group era of the first half of the 1960s....
  • "We Gotta Get Out of This Place
    We Gotta Get out of This Place

    "We Gotta Get out of This Place", occasionally written "We've Gotta Get out of This Place", is a rock song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and recorded as a 1965 hit single by The Animals....
    " – The Animals
    The Animals

    The Animals were an England music group of the 1960s known in the United States as part of the British Invasion. Known for their gritty, bluesy sound and deep-voiced frontman Eric Burdon, as exemplified by their signature songs "The House of the Rising Sun" and "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place", the band balanced tough, rock music-edged pop mu...
  • "(You're My) Soul & Inspiration" – The Righteous Brothers
    The Righteous Brothers

    The Righteous Brothers were the musical duo of Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield. They recorded from 1963 through 1975, and continued to perform until Hatfield's death in 2003....
     and later Donny
    Donny Osmond

    Donald Clark "Donny" Osmond is an United States singer, musician, actor and former teen idol. Osmond has also been a talk show and game show host, record producer, race car driver, and author....
     & Marie Osmond
    Marie Osmond

    Olive Marie Osmond is an United States actress, singer, doll designer, and a member of the show business family, The Osmonds. Although she was never part of her family's singing group, she gained success as a solo country music artist in the 1970s and 1980s....
  • "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
    You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'

    "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin" is a 1965 number-one hit single in the US and the UK by The Righteous Brothers. In 1999, the performing-rights organization Broadcast Music, Inc....
    " – The Righteous Brothers
    The Righteous Brothers

    The Righteous Brothers were the musical duo of Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield. They recorded from 1963 through 1975, and continued to perform until Hatfield's death in 2003....
     and later numerous other artists including Dionne Warwick
    Dionne Warwick

    Dionne Warwick , is an American singer, actress, activist, United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, former United States Ambassador of Health, and humanitarian....
    , Hall and Oates, and a Roberta Flack
    Roberta Flack

    Roberta Flack is a Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter and musician who is notable in the areas of jazz, soul music, R&B and folk music....
    -Donny Hathaway
    Donny Hathaway

    Donny Edward Hathaway was an Grammy Award-winning United States soul music musician. He signed with Atlantic Records in 1969, and with his first single "The Ghetto " , Rolling Stone magazine "marked him as a major new force in soul music." His collaborations with Roberta Flack took him to the top of the charts and won him the Grammy Awa...
     duet


Songs Written By (her nephew) Mike Weil

  • "Tree You Seeded" - Mike Weil
  • "The Tide" - Mike Weil
  • "White Wall" - Mike Weil
  • "Dissonance" - Mike Weil


External links

  • at Allmusic website
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