The legendary story of Mike Stoller's seven-decade-long music career was almost swept away into the Atlantic Ocean. Long before he became a Rock and Roll and Songwriting Hall of Famer with two songs ...

Mike Stoller was 17 when he wrote his first song. He hadn't been interested in songwriting before that, but he was playing piano around L.A. when a total stranger — Jerry Leiber, also 17 — called him ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, professor of television studies at Rowan University. We continue our R&B, rockabilly and rock 'n' roll series with lyricist Jerry Leiber and composer Mike ...

Songwriters Mike Stoller and the late Jerry Leiber wrote Hound Dog and K.C. Lovin' (Kansas City) in Los Angeles in 1952 just as Gerry Mulligan was forming his pianoless quartet with Chet Baker a few ...

Stoller and Leiber’s career began in the early 1950s when Leiber approached Stoller about working together. This led to more than 70 hit songs and the pair being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of ...

If there were an award to bestow for the most accomplished living American pop songwriter who never doubled as a recording artist, the frontrunner would almost definitely be Mike Stoller, 89, half of ...