Jerry Leiber
Jerry Leiber
Lyricist Jerome "Jerry" Leiber and composer Mike Stollerwere American songwriting and record producing partners. They found initial successes as the writers of such crossover hit songs as "Hound Dog"and "Kansas City". Later in the 1950s, particularly through their work with The Coasters, they created a string of ground-breaking hits—including "Young Blood", "Searchin'", and "Yakety Yak"—that are some of the most entertaining in rock and roll, by using the humorous vernacular of teenagers sung in a style that was openly theatrical...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth25 April 1933
CountryUnited States of America
Red-hot songs were born on the black streets of Baltimore, where I delivered five-gallon cans of kerosene and ten-pound bags of coal.