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Insight: Leiber & Stoller (Part 1)
Paul Gambaccini explores the 1950s R&B roots of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, from their blues beginnings to writing "Hound Dog" for Big Mama Thornton.
In the first of a special two-part profile, presenter Paul Gambaccini charts the formative years of popular music’s first definitive songwriting and production team: lyricist Jerry Leiber and composer Mike Stoller. This episode dives into their early days as teenagers in Los Angeles bonding over a fierce love of the blues, culminating in their breakthrough work on the 1950s rhythm and blues charts.
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Wed 4 Nov 202601:00
BBC Radio 6 Music
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