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
Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach and two other pieces with a doubtful attribution to J. S. Bach: Opening bars of "Solo per il cembalo", BWV Anh. 129, by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, piece No. 27 from the 1725 Notebook: Anh. III 129 – No. 27: "Solo per il cembalo" in E-flat major by C. P. E. Bach (early version of the keyboard sonata Wq 65.7 / H 16). Anh. III 130 – No. 28: Polonaise in G major by Johann Adolph Hasse, i.e. "Polonoise secondo", originally in F major, from his keyboard sonata in F major. Untitled movement in F major, , piece No. 32