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Mike Stoller

Mike Stoller

Songwriter

Oct 28, 2026

14:42
So if you can tell us, it would be great.
14:47
There was another song that Jerry and I wrote, a very different song.
14:54
And it was a trio, two guys that we knew in LA and a woman, a studio singer joined them.
15:07
They're called The Cheers.
15:09
And we wrote a song called Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots.
15:16
And it sold very well.
15:19
And I got a royalty check.

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32:33
And somebody wanted to be Charlie Brown, but they were just, but let's, we can go to the Drifters because the Drifters song And you can correct this if that's incorrect, but Jerry Wexler, I guess, heard There Goes My Baby, and he was not, he thought it was so different than he was going, what is this? And if you could talk to that, that would be...
28:55
Yeah.
28:55
Well, he handled it very differently.
28:57
Um, he didn't sing it in the same, uh, in the same tradition, uh, of blues intonation that, uh, Big Mama used.
29:11
And also, uh, the lyrics were considerably different because, uh, Big Mama's ... uh, the way the song was written for Big Mama's really about a, a gigolo.
29:24
Uh, it's a woman complaining about a gigolo, and, um, Elvis w- couldn't sing tha- that song (laughs).
29:33
So he sang a version of it, which I think, uh, as I'm told, he heard from a lounge act, um, in Las Vegas, that he heard singing the song in Vegas.
29:45
Now, I, I had heard that he knew Big Mama's record and loved it, but, uh, it was only after he heard this lounge act do it that it w- seemed appropriate for a male singer.
33:01
(laughs) Now, another thing that happened on this record was, um, you, you, you introduced, um, a Latin rhythm that you used-

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