...Spector frequently used songs from songwriters employed at the Brill Building, such as the teams of Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, and Gerry Goffin and Carole King. Spector often worked with the songwriters, receiving co-credit for compositions...

...Thomas, Elvis Presley *"I'm Gonna Be Strong" - Gene Pitney and Cyndi Lauper *"Make Your Own Kind of Music" - "Mama" Cass Elliot *"Don't Know Much" - Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt *"Somewhere Out There" - James Ingram and Linda Ronstadt (written with James Horner for the film, An American Tail) - a double Grammy Award winner *"Never Gonna Let You Go" - Sergio Mendes *"Too Many Mondays" - Barry Mann *"None of Us Are Free" (Mann, Weil, Brenda Russell) - Ray Charles, Solomon Burke *"Just Once" - James Ingram with Quincy Jones *"Good Time Living" - Three Dog Night *"(Walking) in the Rain" - The Ronettes *"Christmas Vacation"

...Thomas, Elvis Presley *"I'm Gonna Be Strong" - Gene Pitney and Cyndi Lauper *"Make Your Own Kind of Music" - "Mama" Cass Elliot *"Don't Know Much" - Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt *"Somewhere Out There" - James Ingram and Linda Ronstadt (written with James Horner for the film, An American Tail) - a double Grammy Award winner *"Never Gonna Let You Go" - Sergio Mendes *"Too Many Mondays" - Barry Mann *"None of Us Are Free" (Mann, Weil, Brenda Russell) - Ray Charles, Solomon Burke *"Just Once" - James Ingram with Quincy Jones *"Good Time Living" - Three Dog Night *"(Walking) in the Rain" - The Ronettes *"Christmas Vacation"

...Thomas, Elvis Presley *"I'm Gonna Be Strong" - Gene Pitney and Cyndi Lauper *"Make Your Own Kind of Music" - "Mama" Cass Elliot *"Don't Know Much" - Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt *"Somewhere Out There" - James Ingram and Linda Ronstadt (written with James Horner for the film, An American Tail) - a double Grammy Award winner *"Never Gonna Let You Go" - Sergio Mendes *"Too Many Mondays" - Barry Mann *"None of Us Are Free" (Mann, Weil, Brenda Russell) - Ray Charles, Solomon Burke *"Just Once" - James Ingram with Quincy Jones *"Good Time Living" - Three Dog Night *"(Walking) in the Rain" - The Ronettes *"Christmas Vacation"

...His first hit single 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, and they were married in 1961...

...Thomas, Elvis Presley *"I'm Gonna Be Strong" - Gene Pitney and Cyndi Lauper *"Make Your Own Kind of Music" - "Mama" Cass Elliot *"Don't Know Much" - Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt *"Somewhere Out There" - James Ingram and Linda Ronstadt (written with James Horner for the film, An American Tail) - a double Grammy Award winner *"Never Gonna Let You Go" - Sergio Mendes *"Too Many Mondays" - Barry Mann *"None of Us Are Free" (Mann, Weil, Brenda Russell) - Ray Charles, Solomon Burke *"Just Once" - James Ingram with Quincy Jones *"Good Time Living" - Three Dog Night *"(Walking) in the Rain" - The Ronettes *"Christmas Vacation"

...Thomas, Elvis Presley *"I'm Gonna Be Strong" - Gene Pitney and Cyndi Lauper *"Make Your Own Kind of Music" - "Mama" Cass Elliot *"Don't Know Much" - Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt *"Somewhere Out There" - James Ingram and Linda Ronstadt (written with James Horner for the film, An American Tail) - a double Grammy Award winner *"Never Gonna Let You Go" - Sergio Mendes *"Too Many Mondays" - Barry Mann *"None of Us Are Free" (Mann, Weil, Brenda Russell) - Ray Charles, Solomon Burke *"Just Once" - James Ingram with Quincy Jones *"Good Time Living" - Three Dog Night *"(Walking) in the Rain" - The Ronettes *"Christmas Vacation"

*"Here You Come Again" - Dolly Parton *"He's Sure the Boy I Love" - The Crystals *"On Broadway" - The Drifters *"Magic Town" - The Vogues *"Uptown" - The Crystals *"Blame It on the Bossa Nova" - Eydie Gorme *"Only in America" - Jay and the Americans *"We Gotta Get Out of This Place" - The Animals *"(You're My) Soul & Inspiration" - The Righteous Brothers *"Kicks" - Paul Revere & the Raiders *"You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" - The Righteous Brothers *"Looking Through the Eyes of Love" - Gene Pitney, Marlena Shaw *"Shape of Things to Come" - Max Frost and the Troopers *"Just a Little Lovin' (Early in the Morning)" - Dusty Springfield, Carmen McRae, Billy Eckstine *"I Just Can't Help Believin'" – B. J. Thomas, Elvis Presley *"I'm Gonna Be Strong" - Gene Pitney and Cyndi Lauper *"Make Your Own Kind of Music" - "Mama" Cass Elliot *"Don't Know Much" - Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt *"Somewhere Out There" - James Ingram and Linda Ronstadt (written with James Horner for the film, An American Tail) - a double Grammy Award winner *"Never Gonna Let You Go" - Sergio Mendes *"Too Many Mondays" - Barry Mann *"None of Us Are Free" (Mann, Weil, Brenda Russell) - Ray Charles, Solomon Burke *"Just Once" - James Ingram with Quincy Jones *"Good Time Living" - Three Dog Night *"(Walking) in the Rain" - The Ronettes *"Christmas Vacation"

...Thomas, Elvis Presley *"I'm Gonna Be Strong" - Gene Pitney and Cyndi Lauper *"Make Your Own Kind of Music" - "Mama" Cass Elliot *"Don't Know Much" - Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt *"Somewhere Out There" - James Ingram and Linda Ronstadt (written with James Horner for the film, An American Tail) - a double Grammy Award winner *"Never Gonna Let You Go" - Sergio Mendes *"Too Many Mondays" - Barry Mann *"None of Us Are Free" (Mann, Weil, Brenda Russell) - Ray Charles, Solomon Burke *"Just Once" - James Ingram with Quincy Jones *"Good Time Living" - Three Dog Night *"(Walking) in the Rain" - The Ronettes *"Christmas Vacation"

...MCA released the songs "You've Got Another Thing Coming" (not to be confused with the 1982 Judas Priest song of the same name), and "Hold On To The Night", penned by Phillips & prolific `60's songwriter Barry Mann (co-writer of "On Broadway", "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" and many more)...

...Finals: *Week 1: Stevie Wonder - "Knocks Me Off My Feet" *Week 2: Songs of the '50s - "Teach Me Tonight" (Al Jarreau) *Week 3: Songs of the 21st Century - "I Don't Want To Be" (Gavin DeGraw) *Week 4: Country Songs - "If Tomorrow Never Comes" (Garth Brooks) *Week 5: Queen - "Somebody to Love" *Week 6: Songs from ''The Great American Songbook - "It Had to Be You" (Frank Sinatra) *Week 7: 'Love Songs - "A Song for You" (Leon Russell as performed by Donny Hathaway) *Week 8: Songs from the contestant's birth year (1978), Songs from the Top 10 of any Billboard Chart - "On Broadway" (by Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil, recorded by George Benson); "Home" (Michael Bublé) *Week 9: Elvis Presley - "If I Can Dream"; "Trouble" *Week 10: Clive Davis' pick, Judge's pick, Contestant's pick<b> - "Open Arms" (Journey); "What You Won't Do For Love" (Bobby Caldwell); "I Believe to My Soul" (Ray Charles, as performed by Donny Hathaway)...

...As the cars take the green flag to start each race, Waltrip shouts "Boogity Boogity Boogity!" (sometimes also including "Lets Go Racing Boys!"), is a nonsense phrase that has become his trademark in recent years. (The phrase appears in the 1960 doo wop parody "Who Put the Bomp" by Barry Mann.) The story Waltrip has told about this is that, as a driver, he got tired of hearing his spotter or crew chief say "green, green, green" at the start of every race and wanted to hear something more original...

...Altogether, he has produced or performed on over 100 albums of new traditional, acoustic, and popular music, and written more than 1,000 pieces of music. He has recorded with artists such as Jimmy Webb and Barry Mann, Canadian singers James Keelaghan, Loreena McKennitt and Sylvia Tyson, acoustic guitar mavens Jesse Cook and Don Ross, East Coast rockers Great Big Sea, and West Coast rockers Spirit of the West...

...But both supporters and critics of the group agree that the producers and Kirshner had the good taste to use some of the best pop songwriters of the period. Neil Diamond, Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, Gerry Goffin and Carole King, Harry Nilsson, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, and many other highly regarded writers had songs recorded by the Monkees.

*"Here You Come Again" - Dolly Parton *"He's Sure the Boy I Love" - The Crystals *"On Broadway" - The Drifters *"Magic Town" - The Vogues *"Uptown" - The Crystals *"Blame It on the Bossa Nova" - Eydie Gorme *"Only in America" - Jay and the Americans *"We Gotta Get Out of This Place" - The Animals *"(You're My) Soul & Inspiration" - The Righteous Brothers *"Kicks" - Paul Revere & the Raiders *"You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" - The Righteous Brothers *"Looking Through the Eyes of Love" - Gene Pitney, Marlena Shaw *"Shape of Things to Come" - Max Frost and the Troopers *"Just a Little Lovin' (Early in the Morning)" - Dusty Springfield, Carmen McRae, Billy Eckstine *"I Just Can't Help Believin'" – B...

...With less time to spend on her songwriting, as she focused on a burgeoning film career, the early 1980s found Parton recording a larger percentage of material from noted pop songwriters, such as Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, Rupert Holmes, Gary Portnoy, and Carole Bayer Sager....

*"Here You Come Again" - Dolly Parton *"He's Sure the Boy I Love" - The Crystals *"On Broadway" - The Drifters *"Magic Town" - The Vogues *"Uptown" - The Crystals *"Blame It on the Bossa Nova" - Eydie Gorme *"Only in America" - Jay and the Americans *"We Gotta Get Out of This Place" - The Animals *"(You're My) Soul & Inspiration" - The Righteous Brothers *"Kicks" - Paul Revere & the Raiders *"You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" - The Righteous Brothers *"Looking Through the Eyes of Love" - Gene Pitney, Marlena Shaw *"Shape of Things to Come" - Max Frost and the Troopers *"Just a Little Lovin' (Early in the Morning)" - Dusty Springfield, Carmen McRae, Billy Eckstine *"I Just Can't Help Believin'" – B...

...Of these, "Kicks" became their best-known song, an anti-drug message written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil that was originally earmarked for The Animals....

*"Here You Come Again" - Dolly Parton *"He's Sure the Boy I Love" - The Crystals *"On Broadway" - The Drifters *"Magic Town" - The Vogues *"Uptown" - The Crystals *"Blame It on the Bossa Nova" - Eydie Gorme *"Only in America" - Jay and the Americans *"We Gotta Get Out of This Place" - The Animals *"(You're My) Soul & Inspiration" - The Righteous Brothers *"Kicks" - Paul Revere & the Raiders *"You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" - The Righteous Brothers *"Looking Through the Eyes of Love" - Gene Pitney, Marlena Shaw *"Shape of Things to Come" - Max Frost and the Troopers *"Just a Little Lovin' (Early in the Morning)" - Dusty Springfield, Carmen McRae, Billy Eckstine *"I Just Can't Help Believin'" – B...

...*"(I'd Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China" was composed by Frank Loesser, and originally recorded by Kay Kyser in 1948. *"Counting Teardrops" was written by Barry Mann and Howard Greenfield. *"Them There Eyes" was written in 1930, and first recorded by both Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington that same year...

*"Here You Come Again" - Dolly Parton *"He's Sure the Boy I Love" - The Crystals *"On Broadway" - The Drifters *"Magic Town" - The Vogues *"Uptown" - The Crystals *"Blame It on the Bossa Nova" - Eydie Gorme *"Only in America" - Jay and the Americans *"We Gotta Get Out of This Place" - The Animals *"(You're My) Soul & Inspiration" - The Righteous Brothers *"Kicks" - Paul Revere & the Raiders *"You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" - The Righteous Brothers *"Looking Through the Eyes of Love" - Gene Pitney, Marlena Shaw *"Shape of Things to Come" - Max Frost and the Troopers *"Just a Little Lovin' (Early in the Morning)" - Dusty Springfield, Carmen McRae, Billy Eckstine *"I Just Can't Help Believin'" – B...

...Thomas, Elvis Presley *"I'm Gonna Be Strong" - Gene Pitney and Cyndi Lauper *"Make Your Own Kind of Music" - "Mama" Cass Elliot *"Don't Know Much" - Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt *"Somewhere Out There" - James Ingram and Linda Ronstadt (written with James Horner for the film, An American Tail) - a double Grammy Award winner *"Never Gonna Let You Go" - Sergio Mendes *"Too Many Mondays" - Barry Mann *"None of Us Are Free" (Mann, Weil, Brenda Russell) - Ray Charles, Solomon Burke *"Just Once" - James Ingram with Quincy Jones *"Good Time Living" - Three Dog Night *"(Walking) in the Rain" - The Ronettes *"Christmas Vacation"