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	Leiber & Stoller Page
		Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller formed one of the best and most prolific songwriting teams of the 50's and 60's in addition to their work as record producers.
		Jerry Leiber was born in Baltimore in 1933 and Mike Stoller was born less than three weeks later in Belle Harbor, New York.
		Leiber and Stoller moved to New York City and set up an office in what was known as the Brill Building, which was actually a group of buildings along Broadway that served as the epicenter of the pop music business in the 50's and 60's.
	www.tsimon.com /leiberst.htm (1283 words)

	Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
		Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller are legendary song-writers and record producers of the rock and roll era.
		Leiber and Stoller were some of the first cross-over song writers, taking what was essentially rhythm and blues and recreating it in the form of rock and roll.
		Leiber and Stoller have received many awards over the years including their inductions into the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame in 1985, the Record Producers’ Hall of Fame in 1986, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
	www.lacitycollege.edu /academic/departments/music/leiberstoller_gala.htm (636 words)

	Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller Encyclopedia Article @ YoungElvis.com (Young Elvis) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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.
		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.
		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.
	www.youngelvis.com /encyclopedia/Jerry_Leiber_and_Mike_Stoller (1251 words)

	The Legacy of Leiber and Stoller
		But a major source of Leiber and Stoller's success and power was their ability to bridge both racial barriers and musical genres.
		By this time, Leiber and Stoller had already relocated to New York to be closer to the virtual teen pop factory centered in and around the Brill Building.
		Leiber and Stoller have relaxed from their hectic pace of making records in the late '50's and early '60's, reappearing briefly by producing "Stuck In the Middle With You (Stealers Wheel,1972)".
	www.rockabilly.nl /artists/leiber-stoller.htm (705 words)

	Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
		Produced by Leiber and Stoller, the booming percussion and soaring strings, as well as the sad melody, was reminiscent of their work with the Drifters, though in a much Whiter mold.
		When Leiber and Stoller took the Drifters' recording to Atlantic for their nod of approval, the reaction wasn't exactly what they were expecting.
		Jerry Wexler: "I thought it absurd for a fl man to be singing about this country being this 'land of opportunity' at that time in our history." "You have to remember, this was 1963," Stoller points out.
	www.geocities.com /spectropop/hleiberstoller.html (2621 words)

	Jewsrock.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, though, had a good reason: that skinny hick was ruining their song.
		Leiber and Stoller had both been raised Jewish, but their musical influences were always African-American.
		Ultimately, of course, Leiber and Stoller were hardly the only white songwriters to break the barriers of segregation in their music.
	www.jewsrock.org /index.cfm?fuseaction=challah.view&page=L (713 words)

	Jed Peters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Leiber, the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland, was born in 1933 and grew up on the edge of Baltimore's fl ghetto.
		Stoller, also born in 1933, was raised in Queens, learning the basics of blues and boogie-woogie from fl kids at summer camp.
		In 1953, Leiber and Stoller formed their own label, Spark, which released classics like the Robins' "Riot in Cell Block #9." After a string of similarly gutsy, groundbreaking records, Atlantic Records signed Leiber and Stoller to one of the industry's first independent production deals.
	users2.ev1.net /~smyth/linernotes/personel/PetersJed.htm (549 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Leiber was a blues enthusiast and record store assistant, while Stoller played jazz piano.
		Hard Times by Charles Brown was the first Leiber and Stoller hit, but their biggest songs of the era were Hound Dog and K.C. Lovin' (later renamed Kansas City).
		Renamed the Coasters a year later, when Leiber and Stoller moved to New York, the group was given some of the songwriters' most clever and witty compositions.
	www.geocities.com /shakin_stacks/mikestoller.txt (597 words)

	Remembering the rock 'n' roll song factory of Leiber and Stoller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Leiber and Stoller were among the first to use strings on RandB records and through such tunes as "Spanish Harlem" they were among the first to introduce Latin rhythms to rock 'n' roll.
		Leiber and Stoller are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Record Producers Hall of Fame.
		Leiber and Stoller started their own label called Spark and wrote a pair of minor hits: "Riot in Cell Block Number Nine" for the Robins and "Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots" for The Cheers.
	www.jsonline.com /letsgo/daily/1018stoller.stm (1818 words)

	Leiber and Stoller
		We had been invited to attend a Press Conference with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, (for which we are indebted to Ken Lower of Hermana).
		Mike said he had to go, but Johnny brought him back into the room and… That was one of the moments when you say to yourself how do you reel it back in.
		Jerry and I are the nominal plaintiffs against this particular case.
	members.aol.com /lcum902965/Leiberstoller.html (3554 words)

	JERRY LEIBER
		Leiber and Stoller were among the first to use strings on R&B records and through such tunes as "Spanish Harlem" they were among the first to introduce Latin rhythms into rock 'n' roll.
		Leiber and Stoller were a leading force in the late 50s/1960s songwriting Mecca centred on the Brill.
		Leiber and Stoller relaxed from their hectic pace of making records in the late '50s and early '60s, reappearing briefly by producing " Stuck In the Middle With You (Stealers Wheel,1972=Gerry Rafferty of 'Baker Street' fame).
	www.rockabilly.nl /references/messages/jerry_leiber.htm (3002 words)

	Leiber & Stoller - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		Very simply, Leiber and Stoller are two of the most important songwriters of the early days of rock & roll.
		Although they had penned songs for R&B artists such as Jimmy Witherspoon, Floyd Dixon, and Charles Brown in the early '50s, Leiber and Stoller more or less exploded onto the rock scene in 1953 by writing "Hound Dog" for Big Mama Thornton (later to be covered by Elvis).
		Later, their songs were the basis of a successful Broadway musical entitled +Smokey Joe's Cafe, which revived interest in their great body of work, and also brought the music of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller to a whole new audience.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,458855,00.html (637 words)

	Those Hoodlum Friends - The Coasters´ Story
		Leiber and Stoller´s success with the Coasters had made them the most féted record producers in New York, and with the Brill Building on Broadway turning out any number of up-and-coming writers...
		Leiber takes off from Louis Jordan no less than Chuck Berry does; though his hyperrealism is more calculated, he brings the same bemused, admiring outsider's eye to the details and universals of fl urban life that Berry brought to bobbysoxers.
		Leiber and Stoller never witnessed a Coasters show until well into the '60s and contributed nothing to their routines, which Guy and Gunter usually invented.
	www.angelfire.com /mn/coasters/story.html (6179 words)

	Laiber and Stoller
		What joy it must have given those two ‘kids’ Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller knowing that their music, their creativity, their art was being heard all over the world and even by a little Jewish kid living in the slums of East London trying to tune his transistor radio into Radio Luxemburg.
		Leiber and Stoller have sent out a worldwide Press Release on PR Newswire condemning the producers of “Jailhouse Rock the Musical” for so naming the Musical that does not include their songs, claiming it is misleading the public.
		Leiber and Stoller should be truly ashamed of themselves.
	www.elvisly-yours.com /leiberstoller.shtml (1073 words)

	Kansas City Adopts the Song 'Kansas City' Written by the Legendary Songwriting Team Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller as ...
		In the song, Leiber and Stoller lyric-size about "standing on the corner of Twelfth Street and Vine," in an area that boasted of exciting jazz clubs which featured nationally acclaimed jazz and blues artists.
		Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller have written many of the great songs of the 20th Century including: "Stand By Me," "There Goes My Baby," "Yackety Yak," "Jailhouse Rock," "Love Potion #9," "Hound Dog," and many more.
		Stoller were inducted into the Songwriters' Hall of Fame in 1985, the Record Producers' Hall of Fame in 1986 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-13-2005/0004105802&EDATE= (415 words)

	The Coasters
		At that time the group split with Carl Gardner and Bobby Nunn staying with Leiber and Stoller and Billy Gunn, a comedic singer with unlimited vocal inflections and Leon Hughes were added.
		Leiber and Stoller and the group moved to New York in 1957.
		Their last record to chart was with a Leiber and Stoller re-produced "Love Potion #9" in 1971.
	www.history-of-rock.com /coasters.htm (762 words)

	Songwriters Leiber And Stoller
		Jerry Leiber was born April 25, 1933 in Baltimore, Maryland.
		During the initial heyday of this first Elvis hit with a Leiber and Stoller tune, Mike Stoller was a participant in another historic event.
		Leiber and Stoller have written for many artists over the years and have received many accolades, including induction into the Songwriters' Hall of Fame (1985), the Record Producers' Hall of Fame (1986), and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1987).
	www.elvis.com.au /presley/leiber_and_stoller_elvis_presley.shtml (882 words)

	Telegraph: An Audience with the King's Counsel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		ONE Friday afternoon in 1957, on the set of the film Jailhouse Rock, Elvis Presley turned tosongwriter Mike Stoller, who was playing the pianist in Presley’s prison band.
		Stoller called his writing partner, lyricist Jerry Leiber, to tell him of Presley’s request.
		In the retelling, Leiber and Stoller make the process sound effortless, and in 50 years of workingtogether they have certainly been prolific.
	www.u2world.com /news/article.php3?id_article=1081 (318 words)

	BBC News \| MUSIC \| Stars honour Leiber and Stoller
		Leiber and Stoller were responsible for 20 Elvis hits including Jailhouse Rock, Treat Me Nice and Love Me.
		Leiber told BBC Breakfast: "We thought of ourselves as fl and that the music that we loved and those were the people that we wrote for and hung out with and recorded.
		Leiber said: "If we lose the importance of copyright, I think you will have less and less people trying to make a living from writing and it will undermine the culture.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/1413996.stm (345 words)

	smokjcompos
		Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller are one of the most prolific songwriting teams of the ‘50s and ‘60s, and a dominant force as record producers.
		One commentator said that Leiber and Stoller, during their earliest days, were factors in many popular music genres, "creating enduring classics in rhythm and blues, jazz and cabaret, in addition to basic rock and roll." The pair wrote such Elvis Presley hits as Hound Dog, Love Me, Loving You, Don't, and Jailhouse Rock.
		In 2000, Leiber and Stoller celebrated their 50th anniversary as a team.
	www.skylightopera.com /2005-06/smokjcompos.html (481 words)

	Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
		When Leiber and Stoller took the finished recording to Jerry Wexler for his nod of approval, the reaction wasn't exactly what they were expecting.
		Although disappointed with Jerry Wexler's reaction, LandS knew that the track was a good one, even if the song wasn't ready to be thrust upon the public at large - at least not by the Drifters.
		Jerry and Mike turned to Jay and The Americans - an act with which they had scored a Top 10 hit, "She Cried," the previous year.
	www.spectropop.com /hleiberstoller.html (3038 words)

	IWanttoBeFree
		Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller couldn't have been less interested when Jean Aberbach suggested they get involved in the Jailhouse Rock movie production.
		In a way that rarely happens to songwriters (and would never again happen during Elvis's career), Jerry and Mike became an integral part of the recording effort, both in the control room and on the studio floor.
		The next morning Leiber and Stoller stayed on to help with their song, "I Want To Be Free." Once again the film called for three versions and once again the boys got a slow start, probably because Elvis spent most of the morning singing gospel music around the piano with the Jordanaires.
	www.anelvisfan2001.com /IWanttoBeFree.html (503 words)

	TIME.com: Oldies But Goodies -- Jun. 26, 2000 -- Page 1
		Hours after escaping the wreck of the Andrea Doria, 22-year-old composer Mike Stoller peered from the deck of a rescue ship as it entered New York harbor to see his lyricist partner Jerry Leiber, also 22, lounging on the pier, holding an Italian silk suit--in case Mike needed dry clothes.
		This month Leiber and Stoller, now Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, celebrate their half-century mark as partners and accept the Johnny Mercer Award from the National Academy of Popular Music/Songwriters' Hall of Fame.
		Leiber had breathed it in from the fl households in Baltimore to which he had delivered kerosene and coal from his mom's grocery store.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,47692,00.html (1067 words)

	Songwriters Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Leiber and Stoller story began when both were born the same year, 1933.
		Atlantic Records executives, Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler among them, were impressed, and in 1955 signed Leiber and Stoller to the first independent production deal, forever changing the course of production in the record industry.
		Leiber and Stoller have also shared many major accolades and awards.
	www.songwritershalloffame.org /exhibit_home_page.asp?exhibitId=17 (467 words)

	Leiber and Stoller - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Leiber and Stoller - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Leiber and Stoller, songwriting partnership of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller (both 1933-).
		Born in Baltimore and New York respectively, Leiber and...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Leiber_and_Stoller.html (64 words)

	Yakety Yak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		This song was one of a string of single released by The Coasters between 1957 and 1959 that dominated the charts, one of the biggest performing acts of the rock and roll era.
		The song is a "playlet", a word Stoller used for the glimpses into teenage life that characterized the songs Lieber and Stoller wrote and produced.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yakety_Yak (308 words)

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