Artist	Song
The Crystals	Uptown (1962)
The Crystals	He's Sure The Boy I Love (1962)
The Drifters	On Broadway (1963)
Jay & The Americans	Only In America (1963)
Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers	I'll Take You Home (1964)
Barry Mann	Talk To Me, Baby (1964)
The Ronettes	Woman In Love (1964)
The Drifters	Saturday Night At The Movies (1964)
The Righteous Brothers	You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' (1964)
The Ronettes	You, Baby (1964)
The Ronettes	Born To Be Together (1964)
Wilson Pickett (with Tammi Lynn)	Come Home, Baby (1964)
The Drifters	Come On Over To My Place (1965)
The Walker Brothers	Love Her (1965)
Katie Kissoon (aka "Peanut")	Home Of The Brave (1965)
The Fortunes	Looking Through The Eyes Of Love (1965)
The Animals	We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (1965)
The Righteous Brothers	See That Girl (1966)
Paul Revere & The Raiders	Kicks (1966)
Paul Revere & The Raiders	Hungry (1966)
The Righteous Brothers	(You're My) Soul And Inspiration (1966)
The Walker Brothers	Walking In The Rain (1967)
The Monkees	Love Is Only Sleeping (1967)
Max Frost & The Troopers	The Shape Of Things To Come (1968)
Dusty Springfield	Just A Little Lovin' (1968)
Mama Cass	It's Gettin' Better (1969)
Mama Cass	Make Your Own Kind Of Music (1969)
BJ Thomas	I Just Can't Help Believin' (1970)

Comment:

Yes, it's another composer compilation! I did a series of songwriter selections for one of my brothers a few years ago and this set of songs by Barry Mann & Cynthia Weill was one of them. The thing I like about putting together mixes of records which happen to have been written by the same people is that you end up with a bizarrely random mixture of artists (eg: Dusty Springfield, Paul Revere & The Raiders, Wilson Pickett, Mama Cass, etc.) but there is still a cohesive 'feel' to the songs. As it happens, Mann & Weill mixed their styles around a lot more than most of their contemporaries - you have the lush, emotionally overwrought ballads ("You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin", "Love Her", etc.) to socially-aware garage-rock ("Kicks", "The Shape Of Things To Come", etc.) to unashamed feel-good pop("Saturday Night At The Movies", "He's Sure The Boy I Love", etc.) Also in contrast to the other husband and wife songwriting partnerships of the day, Barry and Cynthia's marriage has actually lasted! Consequently they continued to churn out hits long after the Sixties ended (notably "Sometimes When We Touch", "Don't Know Much", "Rock And Roll Lullabye" and "Here You Come Again") but I wanted to make this a collection of the Sixties sides so that it worked as a companion to my other songwriter mixes! Such was the popularity of Mann/Weill compositions amongst Sixties' artists I had more than one version of most songs to choose from - often an American original or British cover, so it was a case of deciding which version I preferred (for instance, I like "Looking Through The Eyes Of Love" but I'm not especially keen on Gene Pitney's voice, hence The Fortunes get the nod on that one) or what fitted better in the context of the running order - which, as ever, is in chronological order! It never ceases to amaze me (at the risk of sounding like Winston Churchill!) how many Sixties classics were written by so few people and this CD contains some of my personal favourites.

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