Mike Stoller
Mike Stoller
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
ProfessionSongwriter
Date of Birth13 March 1933
CountryUnited States of America
I write a melody and then change it and change it until I get it the way I like it.
We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein... The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books.