Information AboutBarry Mann |
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| 1939 births | |
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| american songwriters | |
| people from brooklyn | |
| songwriters hall of fame inductees | |
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With his partner and wife, Cynthia Weil , they operate a publishing company called Dyad Music . His first hit as a writer was " She Say (Oom Dooby Doom) ," which was a top twenty song for The Diamonds in 1959 . Mann had co-written the song with Gerry Goffin . Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil met when they were both staff songwriters, they were married in 1961 . Through the late 1960s , 1970s and 1980s , Mann came up with songs such as "Sometimes When We Touch" and movie scores such as that for '' I Never Sang For My Father ''. Weil co-wrote "He's So Shy" with Tom Snow for The Pointer Sisters and worked on projects with Lionel Richie . 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. In 1987 , he was inducted with his wife into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame . SONGS WRITTEN BY BARRY MANN AND CYNTHIA WEIL
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