This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley.

Cynthia Wile, part of the songwriting team

with her husband, Barry Mann, died last week at the age of 82.

Wile and Mann's songs were recorded by the drifters

and the righteous brothers and many others.

Here's a sampling.

They say the neon lights are bright all the way.

All the way.

They say there's always magic in the air.

On Broadway.

He gets up each morning and he goes downtown

where everyone's his voice and he's lost in an angry land.

He's a little man.

But then he comes up town, he cheesed into my town.

And the rest of the town where folks are happy to play my trend.

You can close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips.

There's no tenderness like we both in your plain dirty air.

You're trying hard not to show it.

But baby, baby, I love it.

You lost and love me.

Just a little love in early in the morning.

Beats a cover coffee for starting off the day.

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