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 ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jerry Leiber, who with longtime partner Mike Stoller wrote "Hound Dog," "Jailhouse Rock," "Yakety Yak" and other hit songs that came to define early rock `n' roll, died Monday. He ...

Celebrated lyricist Jerry Leiber, who partnered with composer Mike Stoller to write such iconic hits as "Hound Dog" and "Jailhouse Rock" and played a key role in the birth of rock 'n' roll, died on ...

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 ...

New York — Sony/ATV Music has acquired one of the most sought-after publishing catalogs: the songs of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. By Susan Butler, The Associated Press New York — Sony/ATV Music has ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. Ask most people the greatest songwriting duo of all time and the answer is probably ...

Influential lyricist and producer Jerry Leiber, who penned such indelible rock ‘n’ roll standards as “Hound Dog,” “Jailhouse Rock,” “Stand by Me,” “Spanish Harlem” and “Love Potion No. 9” alongside ...

Anyway, one of us said, “Uh, Big Mama, you know, you could growl it,” and she said, “Don’t be telling me how to sing the blues!” [The version Leiber and Stoller relay in their memoir has a little more ...