Posted on 08/22/2011 6:39:06 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Celebrated lyricist Jerry Leiber, who partnered with composer Mike Stoller to write such iconic hits as "Hound Dog" and "Jailhouse Rock" and played a key role in the birth of rock 'n' roll, died on Monday at age 78.
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One more of my personal music heros has headed home.....
“You Only Die Twice” (on Free Republic) — Nancy Sinatra (Not a Leiber-Stoller song.)
(Why not comment on the existing pretty much alive thread? Are there medals for initiating a thread?)
So true.
Definitive songs
“There Goes My Baby” (with Ben E. King “Hound Dog”
“Kansas City”
“Smokey Joe’s Cafe”
“Yakety Yak”
“Poison Ivy”
“Charlie Brown”
“Ruby Baby”
“Stand By Me” (with Ben E. King)
“Jailhouse Rock”
“Love Potion No. 9”
“Searchin’”
“Young Blood” (with Doc Pomus)
“Is That All There Is?”
“I’m a Woman”
“Lucky Lips”
“On Broadway” (with Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil)
“Spanish Harlem” (Jerry Leiber and Phil Spector)
I am sorry.
I did a couple of searches and I evidently didn’t do them correctly.
I am a stickler for not posting duplicate stories and wasting BW on FR.
It would appear that I screwed up and I would like to have this post pulled.
I do searches on a single word, such as “Leiber” in this case. Don’t get offended, please, I just thought that in this case the first thread was interesting enough (and not just because of my own contributions) and we should keep it this way. Cheers.
It’s Michelle Bachmann’s fault. First, she shot Elvis, and now she’s started killing his songwriters.
It’s Michele Bachmann’s fault. First, she shot Elvis, and now she’s started killing his songwriters.
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