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Barry Mann

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We've written something like 900 songs in all.


— Barry Mann


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You can get stale writing with each other for a while.


— Barry Mann


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You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.


— Barry Mann


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You have to be very brave in that first writing session.


— Barry Mann


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You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.


— Barry Mann


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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.


— Barry Mann


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Songs written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil
"A World of Our Own" - Closing theme song from Return to the Blue Lagoon - Surface
"Absolutely Green" - Dom DeLuise (written for A Troll in Central Park)
"Black Butterfly" - Deniece Williams
"Blame It on the Bossa Nova" - Eydie Gorme
"Brown Eyed Woman" - Bill Medley
"Christmas Vacation" - film title song
"Coldest Night of the Year" - Twice As Much featuring Vashti Bunyan
"Don't Know Much" - Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt (written with Tom Snow)
"Don't Make My Baby Blue" - The Shadows
"Good Time Living" - Three Dog Night
"Heart - Kenny Chandler
"Here You Come Again" - Dolly Parton
"He's Sure the Boy I Love" - The Crystals
"Hungry" - Paul Revere & the Raiders
"I Just Can't Help Believing" – B. In 1987 Mann and Weil were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. (Mann and Weil were upset when "Only in America" a song they'd written with the team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and originally conceived for and recorded by The Drifters as a cynical broadside against racial prejudice was re-worked by Leiber and Stoller into an uncontroversial hit for Jay & the Americans.

The couple has one daughter: Dr. Mann married Weil in August 1961.

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