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RIP Jerry Leiber, legendary songwriter
« on: August 22, 2011, 02:36:48 PM »
half of the Lieber/Stoller team (Stand By Me, Hound Dog, On Broadway, etc etc) was 78. 

http://www.spinner.com/2011/08/22/jerry-leiber-and-stoller-dies/
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Re: RIP Jerry Lieber, legendary songwriter
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2011, 02:42:24 PM »
wow!
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Re: RIP Jerry Lieber, legendary songwriter
« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2011, 02:48:08 PM »
Imagine just having written ONE of these, much less ALL of 'em...

"There Goes My Baby" 
"Hound Dog"
"Kansas City"
"Smokey Joe's Cafe"
"Yakety Yak"
"Poison Ivy"
"Charlie Brown"
"Ruby Baby"
"Stand By Me" 
"Jailhouse Rock"
"Love Potion No. 9"
"Searchin'"
"Young Blood" 
"Is That All There Is?"
"I'm a Woman"
"Lucky Lips"
"On Broadway" 
"Spanish Harlem" 
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Re: RIP Jerry Lieber, legendary songwriter
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2011, 04:27:25 PM »
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Re: RIP Jerry Lieber, legendary songwriter
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2011, 09:03:29 AM »
great interview from 20 years ago in Rolling Stone

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/leiber-stoller-rolling-stones-1990-interview-with-the-songwriting-legends-20110822

love this quote about Big Mama Thornton:

"She looked like the biggest, baddest, saltiest chick you would ever see. And she was mean, a 'lady bear,' as they used to call 'em. She must have been 350 pounds, and she had all these scars all over her face. I had to write a song for her that basically said, 'Go fuck yourself.' But how to do it without actually saying it? And how to do it telling a story? I couldn't just have a song full of expletives.

(Hence the 'hound dog'?)

Right. 'You ain't nothin' but a motherfucker'."

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Re: RIP Jerry Leiber, legendary songwriter
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2011, 10:17:02 AM »
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Re: RIP Jerry Leiber, legendary songwriter
« Reply #6 on: August 23, 2011, 10:47:42 AM »
Quote from: Gazoo on August 23, 2011, 10:17:02 AM
My contribution, which some of you have seen on FB already:

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/08/23/jerry-leiber-dies-at-78-5-songs-to-remember-the-legendary-songwriter/

" 'You're the cutest jailbird I ever did see': co-ed, or just swinging?"

BWAHAHA!  very nice post, Gaz.
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Re: RIP Jerry Leiber, legendary songwriter
« Reply #7 on: August 23, 2011, 10:28:43 PM »
Quote from: Gazoo on August 23, 2011, 10:17:02 AM
My contribution, which some of you have seen on FB already:

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/08/23/jerry-leiber-dies-at-78-5-songs-to-remember-the-legendary-songwriter/
missed it!  Nice work.  That Ben E. King video is cool.  I don't understand all that stuff in the last half; I guess it has something to do with the movie?  Never saw it.
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Re: RIP Jerry Leiber, legendary songwriter
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Re: RIP Jerry Leiber, legendary songwriter
« Reply #9 on: August 25, 2011, 02:17:01 PM »
TANC: listening to a Radio Deluxe podcast from 8/6 and lo, they're playing Peggy Lee's orig version of "I'm a Woman (W-O-M-A-N)", decidedly more jazzy than the Maria Muldaur hit remake.
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Re: RIP Jerry Leiber, legendary songwriter
« Reply #10 on: August 26, 2011, 10:01:06 AM »
'SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE' the musical revue based on the songs of Leiber & Stoller will be at the Lesher Center Walnut Creek Sept 2 - Oct 9.  "The Tony Award-winning tribute to legendary songwriters Leiber and Stoller is a fast-paced nostalgic trip through 39 of rock-and-roll's greatest hits from "Stand by Me" and "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" to "Spanish Harlem" and "Yakety Yak."
When: Sept. 2 - Oct. 9
Where: Lesher Center for the Arts, Civic Drive at Locust, Walnut Creek (a few blocks from BART)
Tickets: $40-$47; 925-943-7469,
http://www.centerrep.org/season1112/smokeyjoes.php

Plus, NY Times appreciation of Leiber & Stoller:
http://www.mercurynews.com/entertainment/ci_18757151
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