- Born
- Died
- Birth nameJerome Leiber
- Half of the songwriting team of Leiber and Stoller, Jerry Leiber wrote many hit songs with his partner Mike Stoller, including many for Elvis Presley and The Coasters. Leiber was born on April 25, 1933 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA as Jerome Leiber. He was married to Gaby Rodgers. He died on August 22, 2011 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- IMDb Mini Biography By: x
- SpousesGaby Rodgers(? - August 22, 2011) (his death)
- Children
- With Mike Stoller, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame under the category Non-Performer (1987).
- His parents were Jewish immigrants from Poland who managed a general store in Baltimore. When Jerry was 5, his father died and his mother made a futile attempt to manage another small store in one of the city's worst slums. But seven years later, they moved to Los Angeles.
- He and his creative partner, Mike Stoller, met in Los Angeles when they were 17, and worked together until Jerry's death in 2011, at age 78. Their collaboration was detailed in their memoir, "Hound Dog: The Leiber & Stoller Autobiography" (2009), and their music was showcased in their Grammy-winning Broadway musical, "Smokey Joe's Cafe".
- With his writing partner Mike Stoller, inducted into the American Songwriters Hall of Fame (1985).
- With partner Mike Stoller, he owned the Red Bird and Blue Cat record labels.
- 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.
- [on writing "Hound Dog" with Mike Stoller] I yelled, he played. The groove came together and we finished in 12 minutes flat. I work fast. We raced right back to lay the song on [Big Mama Thornton].
- Often I would have a start, two or four lines. [Mike Stoller] would sit at the piano and start to jam, just playing, fooling around, and I'd throw out a line. He would accommodate the line--metrically, rhythmically.
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