Barry Mann
Barry Mann
Barry Mann is an American songwriter, and part of a successful songwriting partnership with his wife, Cynthia Weil...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth9 February 1939
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
unanswered-questions rama rams
Who put the bomp in the bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp, who put the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong?
negative turns
It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
writing creating mad
You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
writing stale
You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
song
We became the songs we wrote.
successful ability songwriting
Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.
song sober written
I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.
college years architecture
I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
musical might different
I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
personality alcohol drug
There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.
people feelings cynthia
Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.
boys mountain talent
I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.
song writing creative
It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
song inspiration writing
If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.