The hitmakers behind Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog" and "Jailhouse Rock" recount their rise to songwriting stardom while authoring the classic American R&B sound of countless chart-topping singles. In 1950 a couple of rhythm and blues–loving teenagers named Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller met for the first time. They discovered their mutual affection for R&B and, as Jerry and Mike put it in this fascinating autobiography, began an argument that has been going on for over fifty years with no resolution in sight.Leiber and Stoller were still in their teens when they started working with some of the pioneers of rock and roll, writing such hits as "Hound Dog, " which eventually became a #1 record for Elvis Presley. Jerry and Mike became the King's favorite songwriters, giving him "Jailhouse Rock" and other #1 songs. Their string of hits with the Coasters, including "Yakety Yak, " "Poison Ivy, " and "Charlie Brown, " is a part of rock 'n' roll history. They founded their own music label and introduced novel instrumentation into their hits for the Drifters and Ben E. King, including "On Broadway" and "Stand by Me." They worked with everyone from Phil Spector to Burt Bacharach and Peggy Lee. Their smash musical Smokey Joe's Café became the longest-running musical revue in Broadway history.Lively, colorful, and irreverent, Hound Dog describes how two youngsters with an insatiable love of good old American R&B created the soundtrack for a generation.

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Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Year

2009

ISBN

9781416566809

Topic

Mezzi di comunicazione e arti performative

Subtopic

Biografie in ambito musicale

Cover
Colophon
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Epigraph
1. East Coast Roots
2. West Coast Convergence
3. Makin’ the Scene
4. Coastin’
5. Absolute Harmony
6. Hound Dog
7. Spark
8. Hard Times
9. New Times
10. Searchin’
11. In the King’s Court
12. Girdles
13. What’s My Line?
14. Driftin’ in the City
15. There Goes My Baby
16. The Brill Building
17. He Wore His Ambition Like a Topcoat
18. Tigers and Daisies
19. Al and Dick’s
20. The Bird Flies
21. The Magnificent Merger That Never Happened
22. The Bird Dies
23. Happenings
24. A New Era
25. Take 36
26. Romance and Finance
27. Mirrors
28. The Last Clean Shirt
29. Life and Art
30. Smokey Joe’s
Appendix A: The Songs
Appendix B: The Productions
Acknowledgments
Credits