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Rest in Peace Jerry Leiber - Tony H - 08-23-2011
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller penned some of the most popular music of the 50's and 60's including
Stand By Me
Yakkity Yak
Poison Ivy
Kansas City
Hound Dog
Spanish Harlem
There Goes My Baby
Love Potion #9
On Broadway
Jailhouse Rock
Jerry Leiber was born and raised in Baltimore, MD which always made me proud to have been born and raised there myself. He is gone now, leaving behind an impressive legacy of music by which to remember him.
He was 78 years old.
Rest in Peace Jerry Leiber - Fenian1916 - 08-23-2011
What a loss
Rest in Peace Jerry Leiber - fpw - 08-23-2011
He and Stoller were great producers as well. The echo and the single tympani beats on "There Goes My Baby" give Ben E. King's voice such an ethereal quality.
Rest in Peace Jerry Leiber - Bluesman Mike Lindner - 08-23-2011
Died at 78 with work like that behind him?
I, uh, could live with that.
Rest in Peace Jerry Leiber - mad4tunes - 08-24-2011
My favorite Lieber/Stoller song was "I (Who Have Nothing)". And nobody sang that like Tom Jones.
I think the only rock and roll songwriting teams who can even come close to these guys are Lennon/McCartney; Goffin/King; and Pomus/Shulman.
But they're all minor leaguers, comparitively.