Mann & Weil - Greatest Pop Song Writing Team

 All rankings refer to the:

  - US Billboard Hot 100 Chart.

Songs written by Mann & Weil.

YEAR.     # of Hits

1961.      6 hits.

1962.     10 hits.
    Song(s) of note: "On Broadway"  #9 hit by The Drifters.
    In 1978, Recorded and released  by George Benson: reached # 7.
     Fun fact: also recorded and released by:
Gary Numan 
Neil Young
The Buddy Rich Big Band
The Coasters,
The Dave Clark Five
Bobby Darin
Percy Faith
Tom Jones
Eric Carmen
Johnny Mathis
Nancy Sinatra
James Taylor
Bette Midler, and
The Sweet
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1963.       8 hits
       Song(s) of note: #23 "Walking In The Rain" by The Ronettes.
    Fun facts: group "Jay and the Americans" released a cover in 1969 and reached # 19.
   also...
    Aerosmith released it in 1978 and it went nowhere.
     Nevertheless, Ricky Gros of Silver Magnum, demanded to keep it on the songlist as there was an unspoken rule that he was lead vocal on all Aerosmith and Zeppelin songs.
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1964.       5 hits.
    Song(s) of note:  #1 hit "You've Lost that Loving feeling"  by the Righteous Brothers.
    Fun facts:
    Dionne Warwick version in 1969 reached #16.
    A 1980 version by Hall and Oates reached #12.
     BMI ranked the song as the most-played song on American radio and television in the 20th century.
    more than 8 million airplays by 1999
   15 million by 2011.
    It held the distinction of being the most-played song for 22 years until 2019, when it was overtaken by "Every Breath You Take". [Whah??? The "Stalker Song?]
     Ranked # 34 on the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time by Rolling Stone.
     Inducted into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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1965.      7 hits.
     Song(s) of note:  #1 hit "Soul and Inspiration"  Righteous Brothers, plus two other top 10 hits.
    
     Song(s) of note:  #13 "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place"  by The Animals.
     Fun facts: Mann gained a recording contract for himself, and his label  wanted him to release  it.
     Meanwhile, record exec Klein had heard it and gave the demo to Mickie Most, the Animals' producer.
     The Animals recorded it before Mann could!
    The Animals reordered and reworded some lyrics. They opened with a locational allusion,  fitting the group's industrial, working class origins:
    "In this dirty old part of the city,
Where the sun refused to shine,
People tell me,
There ain't no use in tryin'.
We gotta get out of this place!
If it's the last thing we ever do!"

I love this!
    In a 2012 keynote speech to an audience at the South by Southwest music festival, Bruce Springsteen performed an abbreviated versin on acoustic guitar and then said,    
    "That's every song I've ever written.
    That's all of them.
    I'm not kidding, either.
    That's 'Born to Run'.
    That's 'Born in the U.S.A.'"

   Very popular with soldiers stationed in South Vietnam during the war.  Frequently requested and played by, DoD Vietnam disc jockeys.
     2006 - A Vietnam Vet & friend conducted an in-depth survey of hundreds of Vietnam veterans, and found that "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" had resonated the strongest among all the music popular then: "We had absolute unanimity on this song being the touchstone. This was the Vietnam anthem. Every bad band that ever played in an armed forces club had to play this song."
    It reached # 13.
     In 2004 it was ranked # 233 on Rolling Stone's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list.
     It also made The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list.
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1966.       1

1967.       3

1968 - 0

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1969.       2 hits.
   Song(s) of note: A non-hit " I Just Can't Help Believing" by Bobby Vee failed to make the charts. The following year it was recorded and released by BJ Thomas; it went to # 9.

1970.       2 hits.

1971 - 0

1972.       1 hit.

'73 - 0
'74 - 0

1975.       1 hit.

1976.        1 hit.
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1977.       2 hits.
    Song(s) of note: The 1975 version of "Don't Know Much" by Bill Medley peaked at # 88.
     In 1989 it was performed and released by Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville and hit #2 - Two weeks in a row. Ronstadt & Aaron also received Grammy's for this song -  best pop Duo; it was also nominated for song of the year.
     (My favorite version is the one on Art Garfunkel's 1st solo album, "Waterfront" - with a little help from Paul Simon & James Taylor: https://youtu.be/f-s9uXvwrws )

Song(s) of note: BJ Thomas' version of "Here You Come Again" failed to make the top 100.
    The Dolly Parton version hit #3.
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1981 - 2 hits

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1982.  - 1 Hit
"Never Gonna Let You Go"
     EW&F decided not to record it.
Dionne Warwick did record it and it went nowhere.

    The following year it reached" #4 with the version by Sérgio Mendes' band.

    Guitarist, producer, music theory teacher, Rick Beato, declairs that this is the
"Most Complex Pop Song of All Time" ( see why: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnRxTW8GxT8 )

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83 - 2 hits

84 - 4 hits

85 - 1 hit

86 - 1 hit

91 - 1 hit
92 - 1 hit
97 - 1 hit

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All rankings refer to the:
  - US Billboard Hot 100 chart.

These Billboard charts are Not included:
  - US Radio & Records CHR/Pop Airplay Chart
  - US Adult Contemporary
  - US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
  - US Cash Box Top 100