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5 unusual facts about Barry Mann


Donna Fargo

Additionally, almost everything Fargo recorded for years was self-penned, although by the latter half of the 1970s she was also recording covers of songs from writers as diverse as Stonewall Jackson, Vaughn Horton, Bill Enis and Lawton Williams, Paul Anka, and Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil; those covers also became successful hits for Fargo.

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  • "Make Your Own Kind of Music" (Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil) – 3:34

    I Will Come to You

    # "I Will Come to You" (Isaac Hanson, Taylor Hanson, Zac Hanson, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil) – 4:11

    Lori Martin

    Recorded at Radio Recorders in Hollywood in September 1963, the girl group-styled, "The House of the Boy I Love", backed with "Mine 'Til Monday" (Del Fi 4201), was mistakenly released with songwriting credits given to the successful team of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil when in fact it was produced by Barry Mann and written by lesser known hit-man, Sylvester Bradford.

    National Academy of Songwriters

    Also performing over the years at the "Salute To The American Songwriter" concerts were songwriting legends such as Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Barry Mann, Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, Richard Sherman, John Bettis, Diane Warren, and many others.


    Twist Uptown

    Twist Uptown is the first album by The Crystals, issued to capitalize upon their success with the Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann composition "Uptown" which was a #13 US hit, and their first top forty hit "There's No Other (Like My Baby)" (#20 US).

    Wax Museum, Vol. 1

    # "Walkin' in the Rain" (Barry Mann, Phil Spector, Cynthia Weil)


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