Hound Dog: The Leiber and Stoller Autobiography
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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 "Jaiihouse 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 Specter to Burt Bacharach and Peggy Lee. Their smash musical Smokey Joe's Cafe 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. The New York Times - Jim Windolf Collaboration is a messy business. So is autobiography. But it shouldn't be forgotten that Leiber and Stoller were among the pioneers who helped bring black and white musical forms together. It has been a historically fraught process, but the collision of cultures is probably what has given such energy and tension to American music. Hound Dog is an important part of that story.
1 East Coast Roots 12 West Coast Convergence 153 Makin' the Scene 454 Coastin' 535 Absolute Harmony 576 Hound Dog 617 Spark 678 Hard Times 779 New Times 9110 Searchin' 10111 In the King's Court 10912 Girdles 13313 What's My Line? 14314 Driftin' the City 14515 There Goes My Baby 15716 The Brill Building 16317 He Wore His Ambition Like a Topcoat 16918 Tigers and Daisies 18719 Al and Dick's 19720 The Bird Flies 20521 The Magnificent Merger That Never Happened 20922 The Bird Dies 21723 Happenings 22124 A New Era 23325 Take 36 24326 Romance and Finance 24927 Mirrors 25528 The Last Clean Shirt 26529 Life and Art 27130 Smokey Joe's 277Appendix A The Songs 291Appendix B The Productions 299Acknowledgments 303Credits 305Photo Credits 309Index 311
