Barry Mann (born Barry Imberman, 9 February 1939, Brooklyn, New York) is an American songwriter, and part of a rock music songwriting partnership.
With his partner and wife, lyricist Cynthia Weil, they operate a publishing company called Dyad Music. Mann's first hit single as a writer was "She Say (Oom Dooby Doom)," which was a top twenty song for The Diamonds in 1959. Mann co-wrote the song with Gerry Goffin. Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil met when...
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Barry Mann (born Barry Imberman, 9 February 1939, Brooklyn, New York) is an American songwriter, and part of a rock music songwriting partnership.
With his partner and wife, lyricist Cynthia Weil, they operate a publishing company called Dyad Music. Mann's first hit single as a writer was "She Say (Oom Dooby Doom)," which was a top twenty song for The Diamonds in 1959. Mann co-wrote the song with Gerry Goffin. Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil met when they were both staff songwriters for Aldon Music, and were married in 1961. Also in 1961, they wrote and Mann sang a novelty song that made the Top 10 with "Who Put The Bomp", which parodied the nonsense words of the then recently popular doo-wop songs..
Mann and Weil also pioneered the socially-conscious side of the Brill Building songbook, with such songs as the Drifters' "Only in America" (originally conceived as a bitter lament before being revamped with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller), "Uptown" (a hit for The Crystals), "We Gotta Get Out...
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