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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 16 quotes by Jerry Leiber Their first hit composition was "Hard Times", recorded by Charles Brown, which was a rhythm and blues hit in 1952. "Kansas City", which was first recorded in 1952 (as "K. C. Loving") by rhythm & blues singer Little Willie Littlefield, became a No. 1 pop hit in 1959 for Wilbert Harrison. In 1952 they wrote "Hound Dog" for blues singer Big Mama Thornton, which became a hit for her in 1953. The 1956 Elvis Presley rock version, which was a... Read full biography of Jerry Leiber → 1 2 Ctrl → The early influences, in many ways, were in Baltimore. I was passing open windows where there might be a radio playing something funky. In the... → 0 Red-hot songs were born on the black streets of Baltimore, where I delivered five-gallon cans of kerosene and ten-pound bags of coal. 0 'Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric... → 0 I felt black. I was as far as I was concerned. And I wanted to be black for lots of reasons. They were better musicians, they were better athletes... → 0 Elvis was incredibly cooperative. He would try anything. He wasn't a diva, no prima donna. When it came to work, he was a workhorse. 0 And there's always one special element. In 'There Goes My Baby,' it's the out-of-tune timpani. 'Stand by Me,' it's the... → 0 It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor. 0 Teenagers especially are very, very conscious about what is hip and what is lame and what is square and what is out and what is in, you know. And, I... → 0 The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in common in... → 0 I heard this music coming out of the radio and it was 'Ain't Nobody's Business.' It got me. I thought, 'I can do this.' I... → 0 The first memory I have was my sisters dancing to the radio when they played records by Benny Goodman and Harry James and of the sort. But the record... → 0 Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful. 0 Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was the blues. 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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