Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
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Oct 22, 2026
John PapolaHOST
Elvis? Do you like
Bryan CallenGUEST
Elvis? Like Lieber and Stoller wrote all those songs, you know? So it's like, you like improv? Improv can be traced directly back to Russian Druze like Betty Mae and Mike Nichols who came over, whose parents came over and they founded already for this, Second City.
Bryan CallenGUEST
Nobody was doing improv before that, nobody.
Bryan CallenGUEST
Even stand-up, the greats like Lenny Bruce, who are always the ones pushing the envelope.
IanHOST
And
DeathHOST
Jerry Lieber.
IanHOST
Yeah.
DeathHOST
Okay.
Nick SalomanHOST
So I was two when it came out.
Nick SalomanHOST
They came from L.A. and that's a song, one of the first songs that was recorded, written by Lieber and Stoller, who wrote a lot of Elvis's stuff and Yakety Yak by the Coasters and poison i they were prolific kind of songwriters all through the kind of 50s and 60s so yeah libra and stoller one of the that's what they began with so yeah but it's a nice little single that uh before that we had the risillos doing can't stand my baby from edinburgh and uh what are we doing now all right we're going down to uh detroit is that going down to detroit from edinburgh They're probably on about the same level, I don't know, north-wise.
Nick SalomanHOST
Longitude and latitude.
Nick SalomanHOST
It's latitude, isn't it? Or is it? Oh God, I don't know.
Freddy TrujilloGUEST
So, you know, I put that in the lyric.
Freddy TrujilloGUEST
But it also kind of made a stab at gentrification in that, like, you know, bird habitat is, you know, loss is sort of like gentrification for them, you know, it's like, so I just kind of just kept rolling with this idea of a bird theme record, you know, and I really liked like Lieber and Stoller's you know, Rockin' Robin, you know, so I did, wanted to do something with Blue Jay, that song, to be like, you know, Blue Jay's, everyone always complains about Jays, you know, being really loud and obnoxious, so I kind of made them out to be like the worst neighbors ever, you know?
Mike WattHOST
I had a Jay in Finland, these crows are kind of cousin of a crow, kind of attacking me, and the Blue Jay ran them off.
Mike WattHOST
Now, it might have been because they were too close to the Jays' nest, but...
Craig A. WilliamsGUEST
In the garage.
Craig A. WilliamsGUEST
The story is that Jeff Beck and Jed Lieber, son of Lieber and Stoller, Jed Lieber, were jamming in Jeff's room.
Craig A. WilliamsGUEST
And you can imagine how loud that was.
Craig A. WilliamsGUEST
And the management came and knocked on the door.
Marcus ParksHOST
But this guy would not have Rundgren's same instincts towards making a Dolls record sound like a Dolls live show.
Marcus ParksHOST
Well, after asking Gerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, those are the guys who wrote fucking Hound Dog, if they wanted to produce the next Dolls record, Thau was guided towards a former business partner of Leiber and Stoller's, who was an expert in what else but '60s girl groups.
Marcus ParksHOST
This girl group genius was in semi-retirement, but to put it bluntly, he needed the fucking money.
Marcus ParksHOST
He had, however, been the songwriting and production power behind one of The Dolls' favorite girl groups.
Pete GanbargHOST
Wow
Mitchell CohenGUEST
... and Leiber and Stoller were sitting there.
Mitchell CohenGUEST
And I, I just felt like, like, "How did I get here? I'm in the middle of, of, of, of all, all the singles that I-
Pete GanbargHOST
Right.
Pete GanbargHOST
Right.
Pete GanbargHOST
And back to the book, you know, there's a section on the Brill Building.
Pete GanbargHOST
So you talk about Leiber and Stoller, and you talk about Goffin and King, and it's interesting because chronologically, as you go in the book, you tell the story of Columbia Records, who eventually signed Dion after his deal with Laurie ends.
Pete GanbargHOST
But what's interesting, there's an A&R at Columbia named Robert Mersey, whose name I did not know, who is the one who took the Brill Building songs from New York, and took the artists being signed to Columbia, like Andy Williams, and Steve Lawrence, and Eydie Gormé-
Justin GausmanHOST
And, and did he get something out of it that they didn't? You know, 'cause oftentimes you read songwriters' interviews, and they'll say that Elvis added this whole other layer that they didn't even think of or expect.
Bec WylesHOST
Yeah, it's like Leiber and Stoller when they wrote, what was the song they wrote where they were just, was it Love Me?
Justin GausmanHOST
Yeah, Love Me.
Justin GausmanHOST
Yeah.
Ian ClarkHOST
And yes, we all know who Carole King is, but with her husband, Gerry Goffin, it was magic.
Ian ClarkHOST
Talk about magic, it takes me to the next one, uh, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.
Ian ClarkHOST
Like, they wrote a lot for Elvis, uh, Hound Dog, Jailhouse Rock, You're So Square.
Ian ClarkHOST
Um, they wrote for The Coasters, Yakety Yak, Poison Ivy, Charlie Brown.
Dominic Chianese Jr.HOST
Mm-hmm.
Steven Van ZandtGUEST
"How can I learn my craft?" I said, "Well, where did it all start?" Well, it started with, with L- Leiber and Stoller.
Steven Van ZandtGUEST
Right? Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, the first arranger, writer, producers in our-
Dominic Chianese Jr.HOST
Mm
Steven Van ZandtGUEST
King and the Drifters.
Steven Van ZandtGUEST
Okay? That's gonna be...
Steven Van ZandtGUEST
And I'm gonna write a Leiber and Stoller song as if they would write it for Ben E.
Steven Van ZandtGUEST
King and the Drifters," you know? And that's what I did.
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