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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Los Angeles center, which includes a state-of-the-art recording studio, was made possible in part by a $1 million gift from the couple. By Melinda Newman Mike Stoller, who co-wrote such legendary ...