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
Works by J. G. A. Pocock Works by J. G. A. Pocock A scholar of the history of British political discourse, J. G. A. Pocock, the Harry C. Black Chair of History Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University, has enjoyed over 60 years of publication. Now in his tenth decade, he recently concluded "Barbarism and Religion", a six-volume study of Edward Gibbon, author of "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". The first two volumes of "B&R" were awarded the American Philosophical Society's "Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History" for the year 1999. In total, Pocock has published more than 260 articles, essays,