Cynthia Weil, the legendary songwriter whose songs included “You Have Lost That Lovin’ Feeling,” has passed away at the age of 82.

New York — Cynthia Weil, a Grammy Award-winning lyricist of great range and stamina who enjoyed a decades-long partnership with husband Barry Mann and helped write “I’ve Lost That Feeling in Love,” “On Broadway,” “Walking in the Rain” and dozens of other hits He passed away at the age of 82.

Will’s daughter, Dr. Jane Mann, said the songwriter died Thursday at her home in Beverly Hills, California, “surrounded by her family.” Mann, the couple’s only child, declined to cite a specific cause of death.

One of folk music’s most successful bands was Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, married in 1961, part of a groovy band enlisted by designers Don Kirshner and Al Nevins and based in Manhattan’s Brill Building neighborhood, just a few blocks from Times Square. With successful groups like Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Jeff Barry, and Ellie Greenwich, the Brill Building Song Factory produced many of the biggest hit singles of the 1960s and beyond.

“I grew up around a lot of music and a couple of amazing, creative geniuses,” said Jane Mann. “My parents inspired each other to write great songs. My mom always said that when things were good, they were there for each other, and when things weren’t right, they had their music.”

Will and Mann have been key collaborators with producer Phil Spector on songs for the Ronettes (“Walking in the Rain”), The Crystals (“He’s Sure the Boy I Love”) and other artists, and have provided hits for everyone from Dolly Parton to Hanson. Somewhere Out There’s collaboration with James Horner for the soundtrack to “An American Tail” won him the Grammys in 1987 for Best Original Song and Best Original Song for a Movie or Television, and was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe. “I Don’t Know Much,” the Linda Ronstadt-Aaron Neville duet they helped write, was a Top 5 hit that won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance in 1990.

Their best-known song, a historical work generally, was “I Lost That Feeling in Love,” a “blue-eyed soul” anthem that Spector produced as if recording tragedy and sung with desperate rage by the Righteous Brothers. “I’ve Lost That Loving Feeling” topped the charts in 1965 and was covered by many other artists. According to Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI), no other song was played on radio and television in the 20th century.

But when Will and Man first played Righteous Brothers’ “I’ve Lost That Feeling in Love,” singers Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield’s response was “utter silence.”

“This sounds good for the Everly Brothers and not the Righteous Brothers,” Bell said to Parade magazine in 2015. Then Bobby said, “What should I do while the big guy sings?” And Phil (Spector) said, “You can go to the bank.”

While many of Will’s peers struggled when the Beatles caught on in the mid-1960s, she continued to have successes, sometimes with Mann, or with partners such as Michael Masser, David Foster, and John Williams, with whom she wrote “Forever” for the soundtrack to the single. Artificial Intelligence for Artificial Intelligence” by Steven Spielberg. Weil helped write Parton’s pop breakthrough “Here You Come Again”; Peabo Bryson’s song “If You’re in My Arms One More Time”; James Ingram’s “Just Once”; the Pointer Sisters “He’s So Shy”; and Lionel Richie’s “Running with the Night”. In 1997, it was in the Top 10 again with Hanson’s “I Will Come to You”.

“When songs succeed, they’re like little novels. They have a beginning, a middle, and an end. You feel what the person singing them feels and paint a picture of the human condition,” said Weil, who eventually published the novel “I’m Glad I Did,” Parade said.

Her talents reached far beyond love stories. She and Mann wrote one of the first anti-drug rock songs, “Kicks,” a hit for Paul Revere and the Riders in 1966. She also had a knack for writing lyrics about ambition and ambition, such as “On Broadway” and its memorable opening line, ” They say the neon lights are bright / On Broadway.” Animals hit hard with its story of working-class frustration, “We gotta get out of this place.” “Uptown” by The Crystals was a hit single in 1961 and touched on race and class in ways not often heard in the early years of rock music.

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Downtown is just one in a million young people

He doesn’t get breaks

And it takes everything they have to offer

Because he must live

But then comes Uptown

Where he can hold his head high

Uptown knows I stand

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Weil and Mann were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2010, with King introducing them at the Rock Hall of Fame ceremony. Mann and Will were supporting characters in the hit Broadway musical about “The Beautiful” King, which opened in 2013 and documented the pair’s friendship and intense rivalry. Man and Will’s lyric “Did They Write That?” It was for a short time in 2004.

“Cynthia’s high level of professionalism has made us all better songwriters. My favorite Cynthia song is, ‘Just a little love early in the morning beats a cup of coffee to start the day,'” King wrote on her social media accounts Friday. Wale’s “Just a Little Lovin'” covered by Dusty Springfield among others.

“If we’re lucky, we know it’s true, but she wrote it — and then she slurps the word ‘morning’ with the word ‘yawn’ in the next verse. May Cynthia Weil’s legacy of words continue to speak to him and for generations to come.”

Will, the daughter of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, was born in New York City and studied piano and ballet as a child. She majored in theater at Sarah Lawrence College, but was encouraged by an agent to try songwriting. By the age of 20, she was working for the publishing company of “Guys and Dolls” composer Frank Loesser, and soon she would meet her future husband.

“I was writing with a little Italian singer, Frankie Avalon of his day, called Teddy Randazzo, when Barry came over to play him a song,” she told the Los Angeles Times in 2016. Is this guy? Does he have a girlfriend? She said, “He’s fallen for a friend of mine, Don Kirshner, and if you call Don me, maybe you can go over there to show him your words and meet Barry again.” That’s what I did. And that’s what I did. He didn’t have a chance.”