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 I", followed by the sixth Partita, BWV 830, from that opus. The Minuet in G major, BWV 841, is also contained in the Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. The prelude of Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 846, from "The Well-Tempered Clavier" appears in a short version in the second Notebook. No. 26 in the second Notebook is the aria with which the "Goldberg Variations" start: The Air with variations in C minor, BWV 991, is a fragment contained in the first Notebook. The Minuet in F major, BWV Anh. 113, is No. 3 in the second Notebook. Its