YOU'VE LOST THAT LOVIN' FEELIN'
"You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" is a song written by Phil Spector, Barry Mann, and Cynthia Weil. The original 1964 recording by the Righteous Brothers, also produced by Spector, became a number-one hit single in the United States and the United Kingdom the following year. Later, artists such as Cilla Black, Dionne Warwick, and Hall and Oates would record their own successful cover versions. In December 1999, the performing-rights organization Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) ranked the song as the most-played song on American radio and television in the 20th century, having accumulated more than 8 million airplays by 1999. (More from Wikipedia)
The name of the Greg Shaw magazine called Who Put the Bomp is taken from "Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)", a Top-40 hit by Barry Mann. This was basically a one-hit wonder, but Mann always concentrated mostly on his songwriting, and he is well known for numerous songs that were co-written with his wife Cynthia Weil. Others that he co-wrote with others include two hit duets by Linda Ronstadt, "Don't Know Much" (with Aaron Neville) and "Somewhere out There" (with James Ingram); "You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin'" by the Righteous Brothers and also Daryl Hall and John Oates; and "On Broadway" by the Drifters and later by George Benson. Barry Mann's songwriting credits include an astounding 635 songs.
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