There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Songs written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil
"A World of Our Own" - Closing theme song from Return to the Blue Lagoon - Surface
"Absolutely Green" - Dom DeLuise (written for A Troll in Central Park)
"Black Butterfly" - Deniece Williams
"Blame It on the Bossa Nova" - Eydie Gorme
"Brown Eyed Woman" - Bill Medley
"Christmas Vacation" - film title song
"Coldest Night of the Year" - Twice As Much featuring Vashti Bunyan
"Don't Know Much" - Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt (written with Tom Snow)
"Don't Make My Baby Blue" - The Shadows
"Good Time Living" - Three Dog Night
"Heart - Kenny Chandler
"Here You Come Again" - Dolly Parton
"He's Sure the Boy I Love" - The Crystals
"Hungry" - Paul Revere & the Raiders
"I Just Can't Help Believing" – B. In 1987 Mann and Weil were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. (Mann and Weil were upset when "Only in America" a song they'd written with the team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and originally conceived for and recorded by The Drifters as a cynical broadside against racial prejudice was re-worked by Leiber and Stoller into an uncontroversial hit for Jay & the Americans.

The couple has one daughter: Dr. Mann married Weil in August 1961.