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Article: Leiber and Stoller
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Leiber and Stoller
Songwriters, producers
Caught Success With
“
Hound Dog
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Became Independent Producers
Moved on to Other Things
Selected discography
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If Elvis Presley was the king of rock and roll, then Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller were the power behind the throne. The songwriting duo of Leiber and Stoller, two white kids from the East Coast transplanted to Los Angeles, wrote African-American style blues songs and helped to popularize them. What was rhythm and blues to a black audience became rock and roll to a white audience, and a new kind of music was born. After several years of writing songs for the recording industry, the pair began to produce music
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