#HappyBirthday #93 🥂✨🧁
This list of songs is inspired by lists published by radio station KEXP-FM from Seattle in 2010, as well as the latest poll taken in 2021 by Rolling Stone Magazine. For the most part I will faithfu…
Ted Tocks Covers
Yakety Yak
Originally posted on February 7, 2021
On this day in 1971, legendary saxophone player King Curtis Ousley was stabbed to death by a vagrant outside of his New York City home.
“Don't you give me no dirty looks
Your father's hip, he knows what cooks
Just tell your hoodlum friend outside
You ain't got time to take a ride
Yakety yak (don't talk back)”
#TheCoasters #JerryLeiber #MikeStoller #KingCurtis #DuaneAllman #TheAllmanBrothersBand
I am going way back for today’s post. All the way to 1958 and the Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller rock and roll/R&B anthem ‘Yakety Yak’. The song was presented by the late ‘50s hit machine known …
‘Stand By Me’ Song Getting Feature Documentary Treatment
#Documentary #BenEKing #JerryLeiber #Meteor17 #MikeStoller #StandByMe
https://deadline.com/2023/11/stand-by-me-song-documentary-1235613465/
EXCLUSIVE: More than a hit song, “Stand by Me,” by Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller and Ben E. King, has transcended the notion of a “standard” — it’s been recorded more than 1,000 times and has made mor…
Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, And Ben E. King Song “Stand By Me” To Be Focus Of J. Kevin Swain Documentary To Release In 2025
#Documentary #BenEKing #JerryLeiber #Meteor17 #MikeStoller #StandByMe
EXCLUSIVE: More than a hit song, “Stand By Me,” by Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, and Ben E. King, has transcended the notion of a “standard”—it’s been recorded more than 1,000 times and has made more…
Ted Tocks Covers
Kansas City
Originally posted on August 22, 2021
A short celebration of the songwriting brilliance of Mike Stoller and Jerry Leiber. Leiber died on this day in 2011.
“Well, I might take a train
I might take a plane
But if I have to walk
I'm going just the same
I'm going to Kansas City
Kansas City, here I come”
#JerryLeiber #MikeStoller #WilbertHarrison #LittleWillieLittlefield #LittleRichard #TheBeatles
Today’s post is a tribute to the greatness of Jerry Leiber. His songwriting and producing exploits in tandem with the equally prolific Mike Stoller led to over 70 chart hits from the early ‘50s thr…
Ted Tocks Covers
Kansas City
Originally posted on August 22, 2021
Songwriter #JerryLeiber would have turned 90 years old today. Here are a few songs that he and #MikeStoller wrote together over a few decades.
"Well, I might take a train
I might take a plane
But if I have to walk
I'm going just the same
I'm going to Kansas City
Kansas City, here I come"
Today’s post is a tribute to the greatness of Jerry Leiber. His songwriting and producing exploits in tandem with the equally prolific Mike Stoller led to over 70 chart hits from the early ‘50s thr…