The Toys got them work doing background vocals for several recording artists. At a talent show in Brooklyn they met Eddy Chase, who in turn introduced them to manager Vince Marc and songwriter/recording executive Bob Crewe. The group became the Toys, and landed their first recording contract on Crewe's DynoVoice Records. Marc introduced them to songwriters Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell. Linzer and Randell wrote most of the songs they recorded. They took a piano piece from a Bach exercise book ("Minuet in G major" by Christian Petzold), put a Motown bassline to it, and "A Lover's Concerto" was born; the song
Late church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach by Johann Gottlieb Goldberg for which Bach helped copy out performance parts around 1745–46. "Lobt ihn mit Herz und Munde", BWV 220 is a St. John's Day cantata by an unknown composer. Its oldest manuscript went lost but existed before 1761. "Meine Seele rühmt und preist", BWV 189 is a cantata for Visitation (2 July), using a German paraphrase of the Magnificat as text. It is dated to before 1761, based on what remains from its 18th-century sources. Likely it was however composed by Melchior Hoffmann, in 1715 at the latest. Around 1733 Bach produced the D Major version of