I have a fondness for the doo wop music of the 50's and early 60's .
A leading songwriter and performer of the pop flavor ( vs the street corner flavor) of doo wop was Barry Mann .
From Wikipedia : Mann's first hit single as a writer was "She Say (Oom Dooby Doom)", a Top 20 song for The Diamonds in 1959. Mann co-wrote the song with Mike Anthony (Michael Logiudice). In 1961, Mann had his biggest hit to that time with "I Love How You Love Me", written with Larry Kolber and a No. 5 single for The Paris Sisters. (Seven years later, Bobby Vinton would take the song into the Top 10.) Also in 1961, Mann himself hit the Top 40 as a performer with a novelty song co-written with Gerry Goffin, "Who Put The Bomp", which parodied the nonsense words of the then-popular doo-wop genre and made the Top 40.[1][3]
He and his wife Cynthia Weill did an off broadway show entitled " You Wrote That ?"
These are just a few of their tunes (from Wikipedia ):
A leading songwriter and performer of the pop flavor ( vs the street corner flavor) of doo wop was Barry Mann .
From Wikipedia : Mann's first hit single as a writer was "She Say (Oom Dooby Doom)", a Top 20 song for The Diamonds in 1959. Mann co-wrote the song with Mike Anthony (Michael Logiudice). In 1961, Mann had his biggest hit to that time with "I Love How You Love Me", written with Larry Kolber and a No. 5 single for The Paris Sisters. (Seven years later, Bobby Vinton would take the song into the Top 10.) Also in 1961, Mann himself hit the Top 40 as a performer with a novelty song co-written with Gerry Goffin, "Who Put The Bomp", which parodied the nonsense words of the then-popular doo-wop genre and made the Top 40.[1][3]
He and his wife Cynthia Weill did an off broadway show entitled " You Wrote That ?"
These are just a few of their tunes (from Wikipedia ):
Songs written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil[edit]
- "Blame It on the Bossa Nova" – Eydie Gorme
- "Brown Eyed Woman" – Bill Medley
- "Christmas Vacation" – film title song
- "Don't Know Much" – Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt (written with Tom Snow)
- "Don't Make My Baby Blue" – The Shadows, The Move
- "Good Time Living" – Three Dog Night
- "Heart – Kenny Chandler, Wayne Newton
- "Here You Come Again" – Dolly Parton
- "He's Sure the Boy I Love" – The Crystals
- "How Can I Tell Her It's Over" – Andy Williams
- "Hungry" – Paul Revere & the Raiders
- "I Just Can't Help Believing" – B. J. Thomas, Elvis Presley
- "I'm Gonna Be Strong" – Gene Pitney; Cyndi Lauper
- "It's Getting Better" – Cass Elliot
- "It's Not Easy" – Colin Blunstone
- "I Will Come to You" – Hanson
- "Just a Little Lovin' (Early in the Morning)" – Dusty Springfield, Carmen McRae, Billy Eckstine, Bobby Vinton, Shelby Lynne
- "Just Once" – James Ingram with Quincy Jones
- "Kicks" – Paul Revere & the Raiders
- "Looking Through the Eyes of Love" – Gene Pitney, Marlena Shaw, The Fortunes, The Partridge Family
- "Love Her" - The Everly Brothers, The Walker Brothers
- "Love Led Us Here" – John Berry, Helen Darling
- "Magic Town" – The Vogues
- "Make Your Own Kind of Music" – "Mama" Cass Elliot
- "Never Gonna Let You Go" – Sérgio Mendes
- "None of Us Are Free" (Mann, Weil, Brenda Russell) – Ray Charles, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Solomon Burke
- "On Broadway" – The Drifters George Benson (written with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller)
- "Once Upon a Time in New York City" – (written with Howard Ashman for Oliver and Company)
- "Only in America" – Jay and the Americans
- "Proud" – Johnny Crawford
- "Rock and Roll Lullaby" – B. J. Thomas
- "Saturday Night at the Movies" – The Drifters
- "Shades of Gray" and "Love is Only Sleeping" – The Monkees
- "Shape of Things to Come" – Max Frost and the Troopers
- "She's Over Me" – Teddy Pendergrass
- "Something Better" – Marianne Faithfull (written with Gerry Goffin)
- "Somewhere Out There" – Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram (written with James Horner for the film, An American Tail) – a double Grammy Award winner
- "Sweet Sorrow" – Conway Twitty
- "Too Many Mondays" – Barry Mann, Wicked Lester (unreleased)
- "Uptown" – The Crystals
- "Walking in the Rain" – The Ronettes The Walker Bros
- "We Gotta Get out of This Place" – The Animals
- "We're Over" – Johnny Rodriguez
- "A World of Our Own" – Closing theme song from Return to the Blue Lagoon – Surface
- "(You're My) Soul and Inspiration" – The Righteous Brothers
- "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" – The Righteous Brothers (written with Phil Spector)
Any hey , may I offer you 2:19 of heaven from 1960 by the Five (In the Still of the Night) Satins called " Beggar with a Dream " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTTXk-Gkb2A
And on seeing the label on the Youtube video found Barry Mann as one of the writers along with Noel Sherman so here is the demo version that Barry Mann cut - Barry Mann - Beggar with a Dream "