(You're My) Soul And Inspiration was the first and only major hit for American pop group The Righteous Brothers after parting ways with their longtime producer, Phil Spector. The single peaked at #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in April 1966. After leaving Spector's Philles Records in late 1965, citing personal difficulties with the producer, the duo made the jump to the mostly jazz-oriented Verve label and teamed up with Songwriters Hall of Famers, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, who were then part of the legendary Brill Building pop machine in New York City. Mann and Weil had already co-written the group's previous #1, You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' with Spector and were familiar with their style and capabilities. This would, however, mark the end of the group's peak in popularity. Although they would chart again with their next single, the religiously-oriented "He", before briefly splitting in 1968, they would not break the top 10 again until reuniting in 1974 with "Rock and Roll Heaven", an ode to fallen musical comrades.
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