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Never Gonna Let You Go (Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil song)
1982 song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil
Never Gonna Let You Go (Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil song)
"Never Gonna Let You Go" is a popular song from 1982, written by the husband-and-wife songwriting team of lyricist Cynthia Weil and composer Barry Mann. It was first recorded by Dionne Warwick for her 1982 album Friends in Love, and then by singer Stevie Woods for his 1982 album The Woman in My Life. The best known rendition, however, is sung by Joe Pizzulo and Leeza Miller on the 1983 self-titled album of Brazilian bandleader Sérgio Mendes. Weil and Mann had originally submitted "Never Gonna Let You Go" to American funk band Earth, Wind & Fire, but they decided not to record the song. Mendes, preparing for the release of his 1983 album, was quoted as saying, "All the other songs on the album were up and festive. I needed a ballad on the album, just to change the pace a bit." Mendes's version was a hit, matching the No. 4 peak of his previous best showing on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, Burt Bacharach's "The Look of Love", in 1968. It spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary...
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