| Genres: |
Pop / Rock
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| Descriptive "tags": |
rock and roll, 70s, pop, brill building pop, brill building sound, 50s 60s, doo wop, doo-wop, novelty, oldies, american, usa, classic rock
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| Decades Active: |
1960s,
1970s,
1980s,
2000s
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| Links online: |
IMDb,
Official Homepage,
Wikipedia
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Biography
Barry Iberman, 9 February 1939, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. One of the leading pop songwriters of his generation. Although trained as an architect, Mann began his career in music following a summer singing engagement in the Catskills resort. He initially composed material for Elvis Presley’s publishers Hill & Range, before briefly collaborating with Howard Greenfield. In 1961, he enjoyed a Top 10 hit in his own right with ‘Who Put The Bomp (In The Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)’, but thereafter it was as a composer that he dominated the Billboard Hot 100. During the same year as his solo hit, Mann found a new songwriting partner in Cynthia Weil, whom he soon married. Their first success together was Tony Orlando’s ‘Bless You’ (1961), a simple but effective love song, which endeared them to their new employer, bubblegum genius Don Kirschner, who housed a wealth of songwriting talent in the cubicles of his Brill Building offices. With...
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