Mike Stoller, Elvis Presley & Jerry Leiber

Jerry Leiber (born April 25, 1933) and Mike Stoller (born March 13, 1933) are among the most influential songwriters and music producers in post-World War II popular music. Starting with the The Coasters in 1957, they created a string of ground-breaking crossover hits that are some of the most entertaining in rock and roll by using the humous venacular of the white teenager sung by a black group in a style that was openly theatrical rather than personal, songs that include Young Blood, Searchin' and Yakety Yak.^[1] They were the first to surround black music with elaborate production values, enhancing its emotional power with The Drifters in There Goes My Baby and influencing Phil Spector who worked with them on recordings of The Drifters and Ben E. King and went on to form his own company and create his famous "Wall of Sound". Leiber and Stoller went into the record business and, focusing on the "girl group" sound, released some of the greated classics of the Brill Building period.^[2] This work is copyrighted. ... This work is copyrighted. ... April 25 is the 115th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (116th in leap years). ... Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... March 13 is the 72nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (73rd in leap years). ... Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... Popular music is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and are disseminated by one or more of the mass media. ... The classic Coasters lineup. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Chromosomal crossover in genetics is an exchange of material between two chromosomes. ... Young Blood is a song written by legendary songwriting team Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller (together with Doc Pomus), which was originally recorded by The Coasters. ... Searchin was a song written by Leiber and Stoller specifically for The Coasters on the Atco Records label, a subsidiary of Atlantic Records. ... Yakety Yak was written, produced and arranged by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller for The Coasters and released on Atlantic Records in 1958, spending seven weeks as number one on List of number one rhythm and blues hits and the Hot 100 number one pop list. ... The Drifters are a long-lived American doo wop/R&B band, originally formed by Clyde McPhatter (of Billy Ward & the Dominoes) in 1953. ... There Goes My Baby is a song written by the songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller for The Drifters, a doo wop group. ... Harvey Phillip Spector (born December 26, 1940) is an American record producer of the 1960s and 1970s. ... Ben E. King (born Benjamin Earl Nelson in September 28, 1938 in Henderson, North Carolina) is an American soul and pop singer. ... Wall of Sound is a phrase used to describe the effect created by the music production techniques of record producer Phil Spector. ... The Brill Building (1930- ) in the United States is located at 1619 Broadway, in New York City, New York, just north of Times Square. ...

They went on to write successful and iconic hits, "Hound Dog" "Love Me" "Loving You" "Don't" and "Jailhouse Rock" among others for the "King", Elvis Presley.^[3] They were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1985 and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.^[4] The term Hound Dog may refer to: The song Hound Dog, which was first recorded by Big Mama Thornton in 1953 as a blues song. ... For the book by Garrison Keillor, see Love Me (book). ... Loving You is a 1957 American motion picture starring Elvis Presley. ... In linguistics, a contraction is the formation of a new word from two or more individual words. ... Jailhouse rock or JHR is a name which is used to describe a collection of different fighting styles which were practiced and/or developed in US penal institutions. ... Elvis Aron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), often known simply as Elvis and also called The King of Rock n Roll or simply The King, was an American singer, musician and actor. ... The Songwriters Hall of Fame is an arm of the National Academy of Popular Music. ... The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at sunset. ...

History

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Leiber came from Baltimore, Stoller from Long Island, but they met in Los Angeles in the 1950s, where Stoller was a freshman at Los Angeles City College while Leiber was a senior at Fairfax High. After school, Stoller played piano and Leiber worked in a record store and, when they met, they found they shared a love of blues and rhythm and blues. In 1950, Jimmy Witherspoon recorded and performed their first commercial song, "Real Ugly Woman." Their first hit composition was "Hard Times," recorded by Charles Brown, which was a rhythm and blues hit in 1952. "Kansas City," which was also recorded in 1952 (as "KC Loving") by Little Willie Littlefield, became a No. 1 hit in 1959 for Wilbert Harrison. In 1952, they wrote "Hound Dog" for Big Mama Thornton, which became a hit for her in 1953; It became a major hit for Elvis Presley in 1956, although in a bowdlerized version. Their later songs often had lyrics more appropriate for pop music, and their combination of rhythm and blues with pop lyrics revolutionized pop and rock and roll. Nickname: Monument City, Charm City, Mob Town, B-more, Balmerr,Bodymore, Murderland Motto: The Greatest City in America (formerly The City That Reads; Get In On It is not the citys motto, but rather the advertising slogan of the Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association; BELIEVE is not the... This article is about Long Island in New York State. ... The 1950s was the decade spanning from the 1st of January, 1950 to the 31st December, 1959. ... Los Angeles City College is a community college in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, on Vermont Avenue south of Santa Monica Boulevard. ... Blues music redirects here. ... Rhythm and blues (aka R&B or RnB) is a popular music genre combining jazz, gospel, and blues influences — first performed by African American artists. ... Charles Brown (September 13, 1922 – January 21, 1999) was an American blues singer and pianist, originally a member of The Blazers. ... Kansas City is the title of a rhythm and blues song dating back to the 1950s. ... Wilbert Harrison (born January 5, 1929 – died October 26, 1994) was an American singer. ... The term Hound Dog may refer to: The song Hound Dog, which was first recorded by Big Mama Thornton in 1953 as a blues song. ... Big Mama Thornton album cover Willie Mae (Big Mama) Thornton (December 11, 1926 - July 25, 1984) was an American blues singer. ... Elvis Aron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), often known simply as Elvis and also called The King of Rock n Roll or simply The King, was an American singer, musician and actor. ... Thomas Bowdler (July 11, 1754 – February 24, 1825), an English physician, who published The Family Shakespeare, is best known as the source of the eponym bowdlerize (or bowdlerise[1]), the process of expurgation, censorship by removal, of material thought to be unacceptable to the intended audience, especially children or religious... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ...

During this period they produced a recording of their song "Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots" on the white vocal group The Cheers. Soon after, the song was recorded by Edith Piaf in a French translation titled "L'homme A La Moto." Edith Piaf Édith Piaf (December 19, 1915 - October 11, 1963) was one of Frances most beloved singers, with much success shortly before and during World War II. Her music reflected her tragic life, with her specialty being the poignant ballad presented with a heartbreaking voice. ...

They formed Spark Records in 1953. Their songs from this period include "Smokey Joe's Cafe," "Riot in Cell Block #9". Spark Records was a record label started by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. ...

The label was later bought by Atlantic Records, which hired Leiber and Stoller as independent producers. At Atlantic they revitalized the careers of the Drifters and continued to turn out hits for The Coasters. Their songs from this period include "Charlie Brown,", "Searchin'", "Yakety Yak", Stand By Me," and "On Broadway," among numerous other hits (for the Coasters alone they wrote twenty-four songs which appeared in the national charts). Atlantic Records (Atlantic Recording Corporation) is an American record label that operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. ... This article is about the American band. ... The classic Coasters lineup. ... Searchin was a song written by Leiber and Stoller specifically for The Coasters on the Atco Records label, a subsidiary of Atlantic Records. ... Yakety Yak was written, produced and arranged by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller for The Coasters and released on Atlantic Records in 1958, spending seven weeks as number one on List of number one rhythm and blues hits and the Hot 100 number one pop list. ... Stand By Me is the title of a song first sung by Ben E. King and written by Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. ... On Broadway is a song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil in collaboration with the songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. ...

In the middle '50's the team signed to produce records for RCA Victor, in an innovative deal that allowed them to produce for other labels. This, in effect, made them the first independent record producers. In 1956, Stoller survived the sinking of the SS Andrea Doria. After his rescue, Leiber greeted him at the dock with the news that "Hound Dog" had become a hit for Elvis. His reply was "Elvis who?" SS Andrea Doria listing in the morning after the collision in the Atlantic Ocean, July 26, 1956. ... The term Hound Dog may refer to: The song Hound Dog, which was first recorded by Big Mama Thornton in 1953 as a blues song. ...

It does not diminish the enormous cultural contribution made by Leiber and Stoller to note that Elvis Presley's version of Hound Dog was a near exact copy of a version by Freddie Bell and the Bellboys that was recorded around 1954. The melody and much of the lyric of the song as sung by Big Mama Thornton was substantially changed in this version, by parties unknown. However, the Bell/Presley version of the song owes much to the Leiber and Stoller version. Elvis Presley went on to record several dozen Leiber - Stoller songs, many written specifically for him, many of which are among the finest songs in the Presley catalog.

Post 1950s

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In the early 1960s, Phil Spector served an "apprenticeship" of sorts with Leiber and Stoller in New York City, developing his record producer's craft while assisting and playing guitar on their sessions, including "On Broadway". The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... Harvey Phillip Spector (born December 26, 1940) is an American record producer of the 1960s and 1970s. ... Nickname: Big Apple, City that never Sleeps, Gotham Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613 Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the performers, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes . ... On Broadway is a song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil in collaboration with the songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. ...

After leaving the employ of Atlantic Records, where they produced, and often wrote, many classic recordings by The Drifters and Ben E. King, they produced a remarkable series of records for United Artists' record wing. They produced hugely influential hits by Jay and the Americans ("She Cried"), The Exciters ("Tell Him") and The Clovers ("Love Potion #9", also written by L&S). The Drifters are a long-lived American doo wop/R&B band, originally formed by Clyde McPhatter (of Billy Ward & the Dominoes) in 1953. ... Ben E. King (born Benjamin Earl Nelson in September 28, 1938 in Henderson, North Carolina) is an American soul and pop singer. ... The current United Artists logo (a variant was used during the 1980s). ... Jay and the Americans were a pop music group popular in the 1960s. ... The Exciters were an American pop music group of the 1960s. ... The Clovers are an American doo wop group. ... Love potion can refer to many things: A potion that is said to have the power to cause its imbiber to fall in love with the person who gave it to them. ...

In the 1960s, Leiber and Stoller founded and briefly owned Red Bird Records, which issued the Shangri-Las' "Leader of the Pack" and the Dixie Cups' "Chapel of Love." After selling Red Bird they worked as independent producers, and continued to write songs. Their best known song from this period is "Is That All There Is?" recorded by Peggy Lee in 1969. Their last major hit production was "Stuck In the Middle With You" by Stealers Wheel in 1972. In 1975, they recorded an album of art songs with Peggy Lee, entitled Mirrors. A remixed and expanded version of this album was released in 2005 as Peggy Lee Sings Leiber & Stoller. The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... Red Bird Records was a record label started by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. ... The Shangri-Las on the cover of a modern collection of their works. ... The Dixie Cups were an American pop music girl group of the 1960s. ... Peggy Lee (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002) was an American jazz singer and songwriter. ... Stealers Wheel (Correctly spelled without an apostrophe in front of the s) was a British folk/rock band formed in Paisley, Scotland in 1972 by former school friends Joe Egan (born 1944) and Gerry Rafferty (born 1947). ...

They won Grammy awards for "Is That All There Is?" and for the cast album of Smokey Joe's Cafe, a 1995 Broadway musical based on their work. The musical revue was also nominated for seven Tony awards. Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music... Smokey Joes Cafe is a musical theatrical revue showcasing 39 pop standards, including rock and roll, rhythm and blues songs written by songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. ... Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... The Fantasticks was the longest-running musical in history. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ...

Mezzo-soprano Joan Morris and her pianist-composer husband William Bolcom have recorded an album of "other songs by Leiber and Stoller," featuring a number of their more unusual (and satiric) works (including "Let's Bring Back World War I", written specifically for them, and "Humphrey Bogart", a tongue-in-cheek song about obsession with the actor). A mezzo-soprano (meaning medium soprano in Italian) is a female singer with a range usually extending from the A below middle C to the F an eleventh above middle C. Mezzo-sopranos generally have a darker (or lower) vocal tone than sopranos, and their vocal range is between that... Pianist Claudio Arrau, Carnegie Hall, 1954. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... William Elden Bolcom (born May 26, 1938) is an American composer of chamber, operatic, and symphonic music. ... Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957) was an iconic American actor of legendary fame who retained his legacy after death. ...

In 1982, Donald Fagen covered their song "Ruby Baby" on his acclaimed album The Nightfly. Fagen on the cover of his 1982 solo album The Nightfly Donald Jay Fagen (born January 10, 1948 in Passaic, New Jersey) is an American musician and songwriter who is best known as co-writer and co-founder of the jazz rock band Steely Dan. ... The Nightfly is the first solo album by Steely Dan member Donald Fagen, released in 1982 (see 1982 in music). ...

Leiber and Stoller also have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. A band plays on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ...

Legacy

In the 1950's the music scene was in a time of change. Black music, the authentic rhythm and blues of the black entertainment world, up to now restricted to black clubs, was increasing its audience-share is areas previously reserved for popular music, and the phenomenon now known as crossover became apparent.^[3] Rhythm and blues (aka R&B or RnB) is a popular music genre combining jazz, gospel, and blues influences — first performed by African American artists. ... Chromosomal crossover in genetics is an exchange of material between two chromosomes. ...

Leiber and Stoller began impacting the course of modern popular music in 1957 when they wrote and produced the crossover double-sided hit by The Coasters, "Young Blood"/"Searchin'". They released "Yakety Yak" which was a huge mainstream hit, as was the follow-up "Charlie Brown". This was followed by "Along Came Jones", "Poison Ivy", "Shoppin' for Clothes" and "Little Egypt (Ying-Yang)".^[1] 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Young Blood is a song written by legendary songwriting team Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller (together with Doc Pomus), which was originally recorded by The Coasters. ... Searchin was a song written by Leiber and Stoller specifically for The Coasters on the Atco Records label, a subsidiary of Atlantic Records. ... Yakety Yak was written, produced and arranged by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller for The Coasters and released on Atlantic Records in 1958, spending seven weeks as number one on List of number one rhythm and blues hits and the Hot 100 number one pop list. ... Binomial name Toxicodendron radicans (L.) Kuntze Poison-ivy (Toxicodendron radicans or Rhus toxicodendron), in the family Anacardiaceae, is a woody vine that is well-known for its ability to produce urushiol, a skin irritant which for most people will cause an agonizing, itching rash. ...

They wrote and produced There Goes My Baby, a hit for The Drifters in 1959 which introduced the use of strings for saxophone-like riffs and lavious production values into the already powerful black sound, and laying the ground work for the soul music that would follow.^[2] They continued their impact on rock and roll by producing successful and iconic hits, "Hound Dog" "Love Me" "Loving You" "Don't" and "Jailhouse Rock" among others, for Elvis Presley.^[3] There Goes My Baby is a song written by the songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller for The Drifters, a doo wop group. ... The Drifters are a long-lived American doo wop/R&B band, originally formed by Clyde McPhatter (of Billy Ward & the Dominoes) in 1953. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A string instrument (or stringed instrument) is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. ... Saxophones of different sizes play in different registers. ... Riff is also an alternate spelling of Rif, a region of Morocco. ... Soul music is a music genre that combines rhythm and blues and gospel music originating in the late 1950s in the United States. ... The term Hound Dog may refer to: The song Hound Dog, which was first recorded by Big Mama Thornton in 1953 as a blues song. ... For the book by Garrison Keillor, see Love Me (book). ... Loving You is a 1957 American motion picture starring Elvis Presley. ... In linguistics, a contraction is the formation of a new word from two or more individual words. ... Jailhouse rock or JHR is a name which is used to describe a collection of different fighting styles which were practiced and/or developed in US penal institutions. ... Elvis Aron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), often known simply as Elvis and also called The King of Rock n Roll or simply The King, was an American singer, musician and actor. ...

Few, if any, other songs credited to Leiber and Stoller bear the stamp of any other writers. In fact, the meticulous craft and high creativity they brought to rock and roll songwriting was the key influence on the rock and roll songwriters of the '60s, from the Aldon Music songwriters, such as Gerry Goffin and Carole King, to the great Motown writers. John Lennon and Paul McCartney both paid tribute to the great influence Leiber and Stoller's songs had on the development of their own craft. Gerry Goffin (born February 11, 1939) is an American lyricist. ... Carole King (born February 9, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. ... Motown Records, Inc. ... John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. ... Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942, Liverpool) is an English singer and songwriter. ...

Defining Songs

• "(You A'int Nothin' But A) Hound Dog"
• "Kansas City"
• "Yakety Yak"
• "Charlie Brown"
• "Ruby Baby"
• "Stand By Me"
• Is That All There Is?
• "Jailhouse Rock"

The term Hound Dog may refer to: The song Hound Dog, which was first recorded by Big Mama Thornton in 1953 as a blues song. ... Kansas City is the title of a rhythm and blues song dating back to the 1950s. ... Yakety Yak was written, produced and arranged by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller for The Coasters and released on Atlantic Records in 1958, spending seven weeks as number one on List of number one rhythm and blues hits and the Hot 100 number one pop list. ... Stand By Me is the title of a song first sung by Ben E. King and written by Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. ... Jailhouse rock or JHR is a name which is used to describe a collection of different fighting styles which were practiced and/or developed in US penal institutions. ...

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Gillett, Charlie (1996). The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll, (2nd Ed.), New York, N.Y.: Da Capo Press, p. 72-75, 192-194. ISBN 0-306-80683-5.
2. ^ ^{a b} Holly George-Warren &, Anthony Decurtis (Eds.) (1976). The RollingStone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll, 3rd Edition, New York: Random House, p. 148-151. ISBN 0-679-73728-6.
3. ^ ^{a b c} Johnny Mercer Award - Songwriters Hall of Fame. Retrieved on 2006-12-05.
4. ^ Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller - inductees. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Retrieved on 2006-12-05.

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External links

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