Soul & Inspiration (2000)

About this title: There are a couple of common misconceptions about Barry Mann, which this album of new recordings of some of his best-known compositions helps to dispel. One is that, after the Top Ten success of his novelty song "Who Put the Bomp (In the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)" in 1961, Mann turned away from performing to a career as a songwriter exclusively. In fact, he continued to make records intermittently for the next 20 years and even placed some of them in the charts. And since Mann was part of the Brill Building roster of songwriters, people seem to think all his hits came in the early and mid-'60s. ... read more

Tracks:

1. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' [Mann/Spector/Weil]
2. On Broadway [Leiber/Mann/Stoller]
3. Don't Know Much [Mann/Snow/Weil]
4. Rock & Roll Lullaby [Weil]
5. We Gotta Get Out of This Place [Mann/Weil]
6. (You're My) Soul and Inspiration [Mann/Weil]
7. Sometimes When We Touch [Hill/Mann]
8. I Just Can't Help Believin' [Mann/Weil]
9. Just Once [Mann/Weil]
10. Here You Come Again [Mann/Weil]
11. Somewhere Out There [Horner/Mann/Weil]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.