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23-402: " My Dad " is a song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and performed by Paul Petersen . It reached #2 on the adult contemporary chart , #6 on the U.S. pop chart , and #19 on the U.S. R&B chart in 1963. It was featured on his 1963 album, My Dad . The song was arranged by Jimmie Haskell and Stu Phillips and produced by Phillips. This 1960s single -related article

46-530: A novelty song co-written with Gerry Goffin , " Who Put the Bomp ", which parodied the nonsense words of the then-popular doo-wop genre. Despite his success as a singer, Mann chose to channel his creativity into songwriting, forming a prolific partnership with Weil, a lyricist he met while both were staff songwriters at Don Kirshner and Al Nevin's company Aldon Music , whose offices were located in Manhattan, near

69-432: A mechanic, fixed the brakes on Moroder's Ferrari , and informed him that he was also a lyricist. Whitlock wrote the lyrics while driving home from the studio, and then spent a few hours at home polishing them. A demo of the song, sung by a background singer, impressed director Tony Scott and producers Bruckheimer and Don Simpson , who decided to film new romantic scenes between Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis to feature

92-579: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Barry Mann He has written or co-written 53 hits in the UK and 98 in the US. Mann was born "Barry Imberman" on February 9, 1939, to a Jewish family in Brooklyn , New York City, United States. He was born two days before fellow songwriter Gerry Goffin . His first successful song as a writer was "She Say (Oom Dooby Doom)", a Top 20 chart-scoring song composed for

115-540: Is a song written by Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock for the 1986 film Top Gun , performed by American new wave band Berlin . It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song in 1986. Italian musician Giorgio Moroder was asked by Jerry Bruckheimer , the co-producer for Top Gun , to write a song for the film. He first wrote " Danger Zone " which

138-661: Is greeted by the ghostly appearance of military airmen of various eras. Nunn and the military men disappear into thin air at the end of the video, indicating they were all ghosts in the boneyard, and a reference to the titular lyric of the song. The video can be seen occasionally on VH1 Europe 's Top 10 Movie Soundtracks program. It was later included on the 2004 Top Gun collector's edition DVD. Sales figures based on certification alone. Shipments figures based on certification alone. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. American singer Jessica Simpson covered "Take My Breath Away" and released it as

161-659: The Billboard Hot 100 , and also topped the charts in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Ireland and Belgium. It later went on to win Best Original Song at the 59th Academy Awards . "Take My Breath Away" is available on both the original Top Gun soundtrack album and the expanded edition. The song was also featured on Berlin's fourth studio album, Count Three & Pray and, as the band's biggest hit, on several of

184-594: The Billboard chart and became a "gold"-scoring record. "Somewhere Out There" would win two 1987 Grammy Awards , as Song of the Year and Best Song Written for a Motion Picture or Television . "Somewhere Out There" was also nominated for a 1986 Oscar as best song, but lost to " Take My Breath Away " from Top Gun (a film that featured the Weil-penned "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" in a key scene). Mann's other movie work includes

207-566: The Hot 100 Singles Sales chart. On November 7, 2005, the song was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Sales figures based on certification alone. Shipments figures based on certification alone. An instrumental version was recorded by The Shadows for their 1991 album Themes & Dreams . As is typical for the group's cover versions, it features Hank Marvin 's lead guitar played to

230-532: The scores for I Never Sang for My Father and Muppet Treasure Island , and songs for National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and Oliver & Company . Mann co-wrote, with Dan Hill , the song " Sometimes When We Touch ", which scored No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 . In 1987, Mann and Weil were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame . In 2011, they received the Johnny Mercer Award,

253-447: The band The Diamonds in 1959. Mann co-wrote the song with Mike Anthony (Michael Logiudice). In 1961, Mann had his greatest success to that point with " I Love How You Love Me ", written with Larry Kolber and a No. 5 scoring single for the band The Paris Sisters (seven years later, Bobby Vinton's version would reach the Top 10). The same year, Mann himself reached the Top 40 as a performer with

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276-448: The band's compilation albums: Best of Berlin 1979–1988 , Master Series , Greatest Hits Remixed (which includes a " Mission UK Remix" version), Live: Sacred & Profane , and Metro Greatest Hits . "Take My Breath Away" was one of the few songs not written by Berlin's John Crawford that they had performed on any album up to that point. Following the release of "Take My Breath Away", the band split over different points of view regarding

299-572: The composing-and-publishing factory the Brill Building . Mann and Weil, who married in 1961, developed some songs intended to be socially conscious, with successes such as " Uptown " by The Crystals , " We Gotta Get out of This Place " by the Animals , "Magic Town" by The Vogues , and "Kicks" by Paul Revere & the Raiders. Mann and Weil were disturbed when "Only In America", a song they had written with

322-626: The film Top Gun intermingled with Berlin's singer Terri Nunn performing the song in blue coveralls , walking between parts of planes in a windy aircraft boneyard (part of the Mojave Air & Space Port ) at night. Bandmates John Crawford and Rob Brill are shown relaxing in the yard and then following Nunn. Nunn's coveralls appear to be scorched (as if her character was in an accident), and where she appears, surrounding electric lights come to life akin to paranormal phenomena associated with ghosts (see The_Sixth_Sense ). As her bandmates watch, Nunn

345-461: The first television showing of Top Gun (by ITV , on the evening of October 6, 1990), as well as Peugeot 's television advertising campaign for the 405 model range. The re-release reached number three on the UK Singles Chart. In 2017, ShortList ' s Dave Fawbert listed the song as containing "one of the greatest key changes in music history". The music video features scenes from

368-609: The greatest honor from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Mann and Weil were named among the 2010 recipients of Ahmet Ertegun Award from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . Mann and Weil operated a publishing company named Dyad Music. Mann was married to Cynthia Weil from 1961 until her death in 2023. They had one daughter, Jenn . They resided in Beverly Hills, California . Take My Breath Away " Take My Breath Away "

391-438: The song. The song was first offered to The Motels , who much later released their original demo, which is fairly similar to Berlin's released version, on their compilation album Anthologyland (2001). Columbia Records suggested some of their signed artists, but eventually Moroder thought of the band Berlin , whose song " No More Words " he had produced. Whitlock made a few changes to the lyrics before Terri Nunn recorded

414-621: The team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and conceived originally for and recorded by the Drifters as a protest against racial prejudice, was re-worked by Leiber and Stoller into an uncontroversial success for Jay & The Americans. As of May 2009 , Mann's song catalog lists 635 songs. He has received 56 popular music, country, and Rhythm & Blues awards from Broadcast Music Inc. , and 46 Millionaire Awards for radio performances numbering more than one million plays. The song " You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' ", co-written with Weil and Phil Spector ,

437-541: The third single from the album In This Skin in March 2004. Her version was produced by Billy Mann . Simpson chose to cover this song because she thought that it was the theme song of her relationship with her then-husband, Nick Lachey . "Take My Breath Away" reached number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 , as well as the top 10 on the Top 40 Tracks and Top 40 Mainstream charts. It also became another number-one single for Simpson on

460-460: The track: while Nunn viewed it as an opportunity that allowed the band to perform worldwide, Crawford disliked it as it had not been written or composed by any of them. He later said: "None of us had ever heard it. None of us had anything to do with it. I didn't play on it. Nobody played on it. No one wrote it". "Take My Breath Away" was re-released in the United Kingdom in October 1990 to coincide with

483-449: The vocals. Moroder has said that of all the songs he has produced in his career, he is most proud of this song. "Take My Breath Away" was the second single from the Top Gun soundtrack album , following Kenny Loggins' " Danger Zone ", and was released in 1986 as a split single alongside the song "Radar Radio", performed by Moroder featuring Joe Pizzulo . The song peaked at number one on

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506-431: Was recorded by Kenny Loggins . Happy with the result, Bruckheimer then requested a slower song for a romantic scene. Once Moroder had written the musical backing to what would become "Take My Breath Away", he recorded a demo which featured a distinctive bass sound on a synthesizer that would later be used on the actual recording. Moroder gave the demo to lyricist Tom Whitlock . The two first became acquainted when Whitlock,

529-408: Was the most played song of the 20th century, with more than 14 million plays. Mann has composed songs for movies, most notably " Somewhere Out There ", co-written with Weil and James Horner , for the 1986 animated movie An American Tail . Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram performed the song as a duet during the movie's closing credits; their version was released as a single, which scored No. 2 on

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