Sandy Linzer & Denny Randell

As a team, Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell wrote and produced the Toys classic “A Lover’s Concerto” and “Attack!,” and wrote many other pop-rock hits of the 1960s. For Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons they provided “Working My Way Back To You,” “Opus 17 (Don’t You Worry ‘Bout Me),” and (with Bob Crewe) “Let’s Hang On (To What We’ve Got).” The duo also wrote songs for The Monkees and had numerous credits with other writers outside their own partnership.

Key songs in the Linzer/Randell catalog include “A Lover’s Concerto,” “Workin’ My Way Back to You,” “Let ‘s Hang On To What We’ve Got,” “Native New Yorker,” “Opus 17 (Don’t Worry ‘bout Me),” “Keep the Ball Rollin’” and “Dawn.”

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