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You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' by the Righteous Brothers enters the UK singles chart, where it will peak at No1.Full article:
Cynthia Weil (co-writer) : If I remember rightly, the song started with Barry having the first line, 'You never close your eyes anymore, when I kiss your lips," and I went on to do the rest of the lyric. But the music and the lyric kind of wrote themselves together.
You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' was the first title that came out and, you know, you tend to not trust the first thing that comes out. Sometimes, when we would write a song, we would put what we called dummy lyrics to it, just to have something to help remember the tune by. This was before cassette recorders, remember. You couldn't just stick it on tape. You would either write it down or quickly think of some words and sing it to yourself. In that case, the first thing that came out was You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling and we just didn't think it was such a great title.
It was when we sang it to Phil Spector that he said, 'That's the title.'
Barry Mann (co-writer) : We had a verse and a chorus and then sang it to him over the phone and I remember that when we hit the line 'something beautiful's dying' he said that it really made him want to cry. Then he got involved in the writing and when we'd finished the song, we played it for Bobby and Bill, the Righteous Brothers. Their thing at the time was that they always sang their songs in harmony together, but in Lovin' Feeling most of the song is Bill singing solo, so of course Bobby is saying 'But Phil, what am I gonna do?' And Phil says, 'Bobby, you'll be walking to the bank.'
I wasn't at the recording session. I'd heard Bill sing the song, but it's different when you hear it on the record and when Phil played it over the phone to me, with Bill's voice so deep, I started screaming, 'Phil, you've got it on at the wrong speed!' It sounded so slow.
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You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' was the first title that came out and, you know, you tend to not trust the first thing that comes out. Sometimes, when we would write a song, we would put what we called dummy lyrics to it, just to have something to help remember the tune by. This was before cassette recorders, remember. You couldn't just stick it on tape. You would either write it down or quickly think of some words and sing it to yourself. In that case, the first thing that came out was You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling and we just didn't think it was such a great title.
It was when we sang it to Phil Spector that he said, 'That's the title.'
Barry Mann (co-writer) : We had a verse and a chorus and then sang it to him over the phone and I remember that when we hit the line 'something beautiful's dying' he said that it really made him want to cry. Then he got involved in the writing and when we'd finished the song, we played it for Bobby and Bill, the Righteous Brothers. Their thing at the time was that they always sang their songs in harmony together, but in Lovin' Feeling most of the song is Bill singing solo, so of course Bobby is saying 'But Phil, what am I gonna do?' And Phil says, 'Bobby, you'll be walking to the bank.'
I wasn't at the recording session. I'd heard Bill sing the song, but it's different when you hear it on the record and when Phil played it over the phone to me, with Bill's voice so deep, I started screaming, 'Phil, you've got it on at the wrong speed!' It sounded so slow.
(Source : not known)