- Half of the most prolific, husband-wife songwriting team (with Barry Mann) in pop music history.
- The couple Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil married in 1961.
- Together with her husband Barry Mann, she was one of the most successful post-war writing duos: with her songs for The Righteous Brothers, Dolly Parton, The Animals and many others, she influenced the sound of the past century. Anyone who puts on a golden oldies station has a good chance of hearing one of her songs.
- Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987.
- Along with her husband, Barry Mann, Weil was a recipient of the Johnny Mercer Award in 2011 from the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
- First woman to receive the Ahmet Ertegun Award from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010.
- Weil and her husband, both based at the Brill Building, were instrumental in shaping the sound of rock and roll in the 1960s, alongside other luminaries such as Carole King, Burt Bacharach, and Neil Diamond.
- In 2015, Weil published her first novel, I'm Glad I Did, a mystery set in 1963.
- Weil was an American songwriter who wrote many songs together with her husband Barry Mann.
- In 1988, Weil won two awards at the 30th Annual Grammy Awards for co-writing "Somewhere Out There" from the animated film An American Tail: Song of the Year and Best Song Written for Visual Media.
- Weil trained as an actress and dancer, studying theater at Sarah Lawrence College, but soon demonstrated a songwriting ability that led to her collaboration with Barry Mann, whom she married in August 1961.
- She grew up on the Upper West Side and the Upper East Side of Manhattan in a Conservative Jewish family.
- As their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame biography put it, in part: "Mann and Weil's... works went fro] epic ballads ('On Broadway', 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'') to outright rockers ('Kicks', 'We Gotta Get Out of This Place') and they also placed an emphasis on meaningful lyrics in their songwriting.
- With Weil writing the words and Mann the music, they came up with a number of songs that addressed such serious subjects as racial and economic divides; 'Uptown', ...and the difficult reality of making it in the big city ('On Broadway'). 'Only in America'... tackled segregation and racism, making it rather too controversial for the Drifters, who were the intended artists. 'We Gotta Get Out of This Place' became an anthem for"the" Vietnam soldier, antiwar protesters, and young people who viewed it as an anthem of greater opportunities.".
- In 2004, Mann and Weil's They Wrote That?, a musical revue based on their songs, opened in New York. In it, Mann sang and Weil related stories about the songs and their personal history.
- Weil and Mann were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010 in the Ahmet Ertegun Award category. "From the bottom of my heart and with the greatest humility," Weil said in her acceptance, "I thought you guys would never ask.
- Weil and her husband went on to create songs for many contemporary artists, winning several Grammy Awards as well as Academy Award nominations for their compositions for film.
- Weil once said that she preferred her songs to tell a story, a complete novel lasting only about three minutes. For example, "Blame it on the bossa nova", which describes how two people fall in love through that dance.
- In the beginning, Weil had been working on a career as an actress and singer, until she discovered that writing lyrics suited her more. She found a job with a music label in New York, where she also met her husband. Barry Mann had had a Top 10 hit with Who put the bomb (in the bomp, bomp, bomp), but would be especially successful with Weil as a writer.
- The ballad about (You've lost that lovin' feelin' by The Righteous Brothers, which she and her husband wrote with producer Phill Spector) fading love was originally a hit in 1964 and enjoyed a second period of popularity thanks to the movie Top Gun. It is still considered the most played song of the past century.
- The collaboration between Weil and her husband Barry Mann followed a fixed pattern: roughly speaking, he provided the music, she provided the lyrics.
- The couple Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil had one daughter, Jenn Mann (American psychotherapist, sports psychology consultant, author, and speaker.).
- Including songs for artists as diverse as Chaka Khan, Conway Twitty, Solomon Burke, Lionel Richie and Gene Pitney, the works of Weil and her husband Barry Mann have sold an estimated 200 million copies.
- She and her husband Barry Mann defied changing music tastes in the 1970s with" I just can't help believing", successfully recorded by B.J. Thomas and later Elvis Presley.
- In the late 1960s they (she and and her husband Barry Mann) helped Cass Elliot of the Mama's and the Papa's establish her own name with Make your own kind of music.
- 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.
- One of their first successes was The Drifters' 1963 On Broadway, about the beckoning promise of the big city. Two years later she and her husband Barry Mann proved how varied they could work with the much rawer "We gotta get out of this place" by The Animals. It grew into a resistance song among Vietnam soldiers.
- Weil and her husband Barry Mann gave Dolly Parton a hit in 1977 with "Here you come again" and even in the eighties Linda Ronstadt scored with Aaron Neville with "Don't know much".
- "I was lucky," Barry Mann responds in Weil's obituary, "I got two for the price of one: my wife and one of the best songwriters in the world, my soul and inspiration.".
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