Leiber stoller biography of mahatma

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Jerome Leiber born April 25, , in Baltimore, MD; Michael Stoller born March 13, , in New York, NY (one source says Belle Harbor, NY).

Addresses: Office Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA

If Elvis Presley was the king of rock and roll, then Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller were the power behind the throne. The songwriting duo of Leiber and Stoller, two white kids from the East Coast transplanted to Los Angeles, wrote African-American style blues songs and helped to popularize them.

What was rhythm and blues to a black audience became rock and roll to a white audience, and a new kind of music was born. After several years of writing songs for the recording industry, the pair began to produce music--first the songs they wrote themselves, and then songs others wrote for them; they were the first independent recording producers,