“We Gotta Get Out Of This Place”
Written by Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil

JIMMY VIVINO: Lead Vocal
STEVE BUTLER: Guitar
MARK DOYLE: Guitar
KENNY AARONSON: Bass
TOMMY ALLEN: Drums, Percussion
JONN SAVANNAH: Keyboards, Cello

Producer: Tom Emmi
Mixing Engineer: Tommy Allen
Video Editors: George Ramsay, Leo Switucha

You’ve lost that loving feeling. On Broadway. Here you come again. We’ve got to out of this place. He’s so shy. The names of the songs she wrote are more familiar to most of us than the name of the woman who wrote them. But Cynthia Weil was the author to many of the most beloved song lyrics of all time. In partnership with her husband Barry Mann, and alongside the likes of Carole King and Neil Simon, Cynthia was one of the pillars of New York’s legendary Brill Building, one of the 20th century’s most prodigious hit factories. Though she made her name in the early 60s writing for The Righteous Brothers, Weill and Mann continued to generate hits two decades later for Dolly Parton, The Pointer Sisters and others. Cynthia Weill was lost to us in June of 2023, but that loving feeling will never fade away.

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