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"Hound Dog" songwriter Jerry Leiber dies at 78
reuters.com ^ | 8/22/11 | By Alex Dobuzinskis and Steve Gorman

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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TOPICS: History; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: leiberandstoller
Jerry and Mike meant much more to the music world than just 'Hound Dog'...

One more of my personal music heros has headed home.....

1 posted on 08/22/2011 6:39:13 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

“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?)


2 posted on 08/22/2011 6:41:43 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Jerry and Mike meant much more to the music world than just 'Hound Dog'...

So true.

3 posted on 08/22/2011 6:47:30 PM PDT by Huck (Read Antifederalist Brutus)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

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)


4 posted on 08/22/2011 6:49:06 PM PDT by Huck (Read Antifederalist Brutus)
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To: Revolting cat!

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.


5 posted on 08/22/2011 6:58:31 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FreeRepublic.com. Now, More Than Ever.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

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.


6 posted on 08/22/2011 7:00:35 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

It’s Michelle Bachmann’s fault. First, she shot Elvis, and now she’s started killing his songwriters.


7 posted on 08/22/2011 7:14:35 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (In Edward Kennedy's America, federal funding of brothels is a right, not a privilege.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

It’s Michele Bachmann’s fault. First, she shot Elvis, and now she’s started killing his songwriters.


8 posted on 08/22/2011 7:14:58 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (In Edward Kennedy's America, federal funding of brothels is a right, not a privilege.)
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