Cynthia Weil
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Cynthia Weil (born October 18, 1940, New York) is a prominent American songwriter. She is famous for having written many songs together with Barry Mann.
Weil was trained as an actress and dancer but soon demonstrated a songwriting ability that led to her collaboration with Barry Mann whom she would eventually marry. Weil became one of the Brill Building songwriters of the 1960s, and one of the most important writers during the emergence of rock and roll.
She and her husband went on to create songs for numerous contemporary artists, winning a number of Grammy Awards and Academy Award nominations for their compositions for film.
In 1987, she was inducted with her husband, Mann, into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
[edit] Songs written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil
- "Shades Of Gray" - The Monkees
- “Love Is Only Sleeping” - The Monkees
- "He's Sure the Boy I Love" – The Crystals
- "On Broadway" – The Drifters and later George Benson
- "Magic Town" – The Vogues
- "Uptown" – The Crystals
- "Blame It on the Bossa Nova" – Eydie Gorme
- "Only in America" – Jay and the Americans
- "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" – The Animals
- "(You're My) Soul & Inspiration" – The Righteous Brothers and later Donny & Marie Osmond
- "Kicks" – Paul Revere & the Raiders
- "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" – The Righteous Brothers and later numerous other artists including Dionne Warwick, Hall and Oates, and a Roberta Flack-Donny Hathaway duet
- "Looking Through the Eyes of Love" - Gene Pitney, Marlena Shaw
- "Shape of Things to Come" – Max Frost and the Troopers
- "Just a Little Lovin' (Early in the Morning)" - Dusty Springfield, Carmen McRae, Billy Eckstine
- "I Just Can't Help Believin'" – B. J. Thomas, Elvis Presley
- "Here You Come Again" – Dolly Parton
- "I'm Gonna Be Strong" – Gene Pitney and covered by Cyndi Lauper
- "Make Your Own Kind of Music" – "Mama" Cass Elliot
- "Black Butterfly" - Deniece Williams
- "Runnin' with the Night" (Lionel Richie & Cynthia Weil) - Lionel Richie
- "Don't Know Much" – Aaron Neville & Linda Ronstadt (also, earlier, Bill Medley and Bette Midler)
- "None of Us Are Free" (Mann, Weil, Brenda Russell) - Ray Charles, Solomon Burke
- "Let Me In" (Rick Derringer/Cynthia Weil) - Derringer
- "Just Once" - James Ingram with Quincy Jones
- "Christmas Vacation" - Title song for the movie of the same name

