Monday, May 25, 2015

The Jewish Songwriters Behind the Elvis Presley Hit Machine

By Zachary Solomon for Jewniverse

Like Rodgers and Hammerstein before them, Leiber and Stoller were a songwriting duo to the stars.

Jerome Leiber and Mike Stoller, both born in 1933 to Jewish families in Baltimore and Long Island respectively, met in Los Angeles as teenagers and bonded over a mutual love of blues and R&B. With Stoller’s compositional acumen and Leiber’s talent as a wordsmith, they quickly found between them a sparkling collaborative energy.

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