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Leiber and Stoller were an American songwriting and record production duo, consisting of lyricist Jerome Leiber (/ ˈ l iː b ər /; April 25, 1933 – August 22, 2011) [1] and composer Michael Stoller [2] (born March 13, 1933). [3]
The Coasters signed with Columbia Records' Date label in 1966, reuniting with Leiber and Stoller (who had parted ways with Atlantic Records in 1963), but never regained their former fame. [4] In 1971, the Coasters had a minor chart entry with " Love Potion No. 9 ", a song that Leiber and Stoller had written for the Coasters, but instead gave to ...
Musically, the song follows a minor blues structure, built mostly around three chords (i7, iv7, V7) except for the bridge (IV, VI, III, V). The lyrical theme is one typical of early rock and roll: boy meets girl, then meets girl's father, who does not approve of boy; so the boy departs, but cannot stop thinking about the girl, declaring "You're the one, you're the one, you're the one."
If there were an award to bestow for the most accomplished living American pop songwriter who never doubled as a recording artist, the frontrunner would almost definitely be Mike Stoller, 89, half ...
Mann and Weil were disturbed when "Only In America", a song they had written with the team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and conceived originally for and recorded by the Drifters as a protest against racial prejudice, was re-worked by Leiber and Stoller into an uncontroversial success for Jay & The Americans.
Written by Leiber, Stoller, and Billy Edd Wheeler #9 US country "On Broadway" The Drifters 9 7 - Written by Leiber, Stoller, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil 1978: George Benson, #7 US pop, #2 R&B "The Reverend Mr. Black" The Kingston Trio: 8 15 - Written by Leiber, Stoller, and Billy Edd Wheeler 1982: Johnny Cash, #71 US country "Rat Race" The ...
While recording the Teddy Bears' album, Spector met Lester Sill, a former promotion man who was a mentor to Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. [4]: 55 Sill and his partner, Lee Hazlewood supported Spector's next project, the Spectors Three. [22] In 1960, Sill arranged for Spector to work as an apprentice to Leiber and Stoller in New York.
The song is a "playlet," a word Stoller used for the glimpses into teenage life that characterized the songs he and Lieber wrote and produced. [4] The lyrics describe the listing of household chores to a kid, presumably a teenager, the teenager's response ("yakety yak") and the parents' retort ("don't talk back") — an experience very familiar to a middle-class teenager of the day.