Cynthia Weil

"I thought you guys would never ask. and the difficult reality of making it in the big city (“On Broadway”.

tackled segregation and racism making it rather too controversial for the Drifters who were the intended artists. At the ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria which was telecast on the Fuse TV cable network songwriter Carole King inducted Mann and Weil and other songwriting colleagues from the 1950s and early 1960s including Ellie Greenwich (posthumously) and Jeff Barry Otis Blackwell (posthumously) Mort Shuman and Jesse Stone (posthumously).