
Mike Stoller
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Oct 28, 2026
The Stories Behind “Hound Dog,” “Stand by Me” and Many More Massive Hits With Mike Stoller
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Mike StollerGUEST
And it was a trio, two guys that we knew in LA and a woman, a studio singer joined them.
17 MINS LATER

Dave SholinHOST
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...
Roots of R&B: 'Stand By Me'
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28:57Mike StollerGUEST
Um, he didn't sing it in the same, uh, in the same tradition, uh, of blues intonation that, uh, Big Mama used.
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29:11Mike StollerGUEST
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.
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29:24Mike StollerGUEST
Uh, it's a woman complaining about a gigolo, and, um, Elvis w- couldn't sing tha- that song (laughs).
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29:33Mike StollerGUEST
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.
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29:45Mike StollerGUEST
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.
Terry GrossHOST
(laughs) Now, another thing that happened on this record was, um, you, you, you introduced, um, a Latin rhythm that you used-