![]() ![]() We're going to listen back to Terry's 2000 interview with Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann. In 1999, Weil and Mann's song, "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'," was the most performed song of the century in the BMI publishing catalog. ![]() Unlike many songwriters of the '60s, Weil and Mann survived what was called the British Invasion. Songwriters like Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Ellie Greenwich and Neil Sedaka churned out material for the latest singers and pop groups. They worked in Manhattan in an office building near the Brill Building when the area was the new Tin Pan Alley. When Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann teamed up in the early 1960s, they were both staff writers for a music publishing company owned by Don Kirshner. MOSLEY: That was the Drifters, The Crystals, The Righteous Brothers, Dusty Springfield, the Animals and Dolly Parton. You waltz right in the door, just like you've done before, and wrap my heart 'round your little finger. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "HERE YOU COME AGAIN")ĭOLLY PARTON: (Singing) Here you come again, just when I've begun to get myself together. Girl, there's a better life for me and you. THE ANIMALS: (Singing) We got to get out of this place if it's the last thing we ever do. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WE GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS PLACE") (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "JUST A LITTLE LOVIN'")ĭUSTY SPRINGFIELD: (Singing) Just a little loving early in the morning beats a cup of coffee for starting off the day. And there's no tenderness like before in your fingertips. THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS: (Singing) You never close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "YOU'VE LOST THAT LOVIN' FEELIN'") But then he comes uptown each evening to my tenement, uptown where folks don't have to pay much rent. THE CRYSTALS: (Singing) He gets up each morning, and he goes downtown where everyone's his boss, and he's lost in an angry land. They say there's always magic in the air on Broadway. THE DRIFTERS: (Singing) They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway, on Broadway. Weil and Mann songs were recorded by the Drifters and The Righteous Brothers and many others. Cynthia Weil, part of the songwriting team with her husband, Barry Mann, died last week at the age of 82. Hear Keys’s new single “So Done” featuring Khalid here.This is FRESH AIR. We all experienced a level of changing, or bending, or twisting, and so to just be fully confident, 100 in you, and what you bring, and your you-ness, it’s special, it’s unique, it’s needed, it’s necessary. The artist and producer continues: “We all experience a level of self-doubt. And so I’m definitely so done with thinking that that’s not true, or that you need other things to do things better than you can, or other people to do things better than you can, or other circumstances that might seem better than the one you’re in, whatever the case is.” “That everything I need, everything I’m looking for, everything I’m waiting for, everything I’m wishing for is all in me. “I continue to remind myself just to embrace my ‘me’ fully and completely,” says Keys, who released her memoir More Myself: A Journey last March. The lyrics “I’m so done/guarding my tongue/holding me back/ I’m living the way I want,” beg the question, what she’s done with these days. There’s another element of “So Done” that marries well with how Keys is feeling these days. And the representing of that, which I just love how that feels,” she says. Keys adds: “It’s a total disruption of the standards. We you choose to be that, and how everybody wants to follow that.” “We started to talk about this feeling of isolation, and this feeling of when you don’t belong and how, even when you feel like you’re the outcast, how amazing is it when you would reclaim that power. I remember really loving how that felt… this kind of beauty, this chaos, that ruins the beauty,” says Keys. It looked like this beautiful place, but it was super chaotic. “The germ of the idea was Andy and I had worked on another song concept, and he had this kind of crazy visual. The disruption of youthful exuberance is what drew Keys into visuals. But even as her classmates live their best lives, loneliness starts consuming her until chaos erupts in the dancehall. The timeless video features actress Sasha Lane ( American Honey) as a slightly awkward teen who walks into prom with hopes of finally fitting in. ![]()
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