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...that music?s for the birds, You can?t understand the words. Well, honey, if you did, You?d really blow your lid. Baby, that is rock and roll. - Leiber and Stoller for the Coasters...
...song was a metaphor for racial harmony in more ways than Clinton knew; for it was written and recorded, in about a half-hour one December day in 1960, by the R&B singer Ben E. King and his record producers, two Jewish hepcats named Mike Leiber and Jerry Stoller...
...Drifters, a group that had been at Atlantic, with many personnel permutations, from its inception as a support staff for singer Clyde McPhatter in 1953. Since 1958, when the remnants of the original quintet were replaced by King?s group, the Five Crowns, their songs had been produced by Leiber and Stoller, in a smooth Latinate ballady groove that was new to both the Drifters (who had specialized in R&B) and their producers (who had made their rep with funky, catarrhal blues records...
...sounds like something out of "High Fidelity": What are the 10 best songs of all time? But a panel of 20 songwriting legends, including Paul McCartney, Brian Wilson, Jerry Leiber and Hal David, were brave enough to answer that hopelessly subjective question for the British music magazine Mojo, and the results range from predictable to surprising to vaguely unsatisfying...
...wrote to amuse ourselves," Leiber says. It shows in the manic energy and irrepressible good humor of their music. It's still hard not to laugh at the comic turns they wrote for the Coasters, such as Charlie Brown and Love Potion No. 9. Such story songs as Along Came Jones and Young Blood were inspired by Leiber's love of radio series like The Shadow. Their subjects ranged from knife fights and no-accounts to class clowns and the clap. That last can be found in what Leiber calls the "snide innuendo" of their hilarious Poison...