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08/22/2011 2:08:27 PM PDT by
Borges
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To: Borges
Within three years of meeting each other, Leiber and Stoller were the hottest songwriters in the business –writing hits for the Drifters, Coasters and the Robins and many other R&B groups of the era.Rock trivia: The Coasters and The Robins were the same group, The Robins transitioning into The Coasters.
28 posted on
08/22/2011 5:13:14 PM PDT by
metesky
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To: Borges
In 1956, their career went to a higher level when Elvis Presley took "Hound Dog" – which they wrote for Big Mama Thornton four years earlier – and turned it into a gigantic hit. I have heard that version a number of times and think that it is much, much superior to the way that Elvis treated it.
To: Borges
Interesting, if arguable, that so many of the Leiber-Stoller compositions had to wait for the second, third, etc, version to get a definitive recording. Examples: “Down Home Girl”, “One Kiss Led to Another”.
To: Borges
My favorite Leiber/Stoller
song. RIP Jerry and thanks for all of the great music you gave us. You done good!
31 posted on
08/22/2011 6:50:25 PM PDT by
FlingWingFlyer
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34 posted on
08/22/2011 7:39:40 PM PDT by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
To: Borges
“Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte
37 posted on
09/07/2011 10:52:02 AM PDT by
Puppage
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