Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
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Jerome "Jerry" Leiber (April 25, 1933 – August 22, 2011) and Mike Stoller (born March 13, 1933) were American songwriting and record producing partners. Stoller was the composer of the duo and Leiber the lyricist. Their most famous songs include "Hound Dog", "Jailhouse Rock", "Stand By Me", and "On Broadway" (with Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil).
In 1952, they wrote "Hound Dog" for Big Mama Thornton, which became a hit for her in 1953; it became a much bigger 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.
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Definitive songs
- "There Goes My Baby" (with Ben E. King (as Benjamin Nelson), Lover Patterson, and George Treadwell)
- "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)
- "King Creole (song)"
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