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Jerry Leiber
American Musician
Born: Apr 25, 1933
Died: Aug 22, 2011
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Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful. Jerry Leiber
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Red-hot songs were born on the black streets of Baltimore, where I delivered five-gallon cans of kerosene and ten-pound bags of coal. Jerry Leiber
Black Born Delivered Songs Bags Red-Hot Were Baltimore Where Cans Coal Streets
I felt black. I was as far as I was concerned. And I wanted to be black for lots of reasons. They were better musicians, they were better athletes, they were not uptight about sex, and they knew how to enjoy life better than most people. Jerry Leiber
Life Musicians People Better Enjoy Life Sex Black Enjoy Athletes About Knew Most Concerned Felt How Were Lots Than As Far As Wanted Uptight Far Reasons
I was brought up in black neighborhoods in South Baltimore. And we really felt like we were very black. We acted black and we spoke black. When I was a kid growing up, where I came from, it was hip to be black. To be white was kind of square. Jerry Leiber
Black White Kid Neighborhoods Kind Brought Spoke Like Felt Hip Came Were South Baltimore Up Very Square Where Really Acted Growing Growing Up
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. Jerry Leiber
Music Time Berlin All-Time Songwriter Him Greatest His Blues Awe
The first memory I have was my sisters dancing to the radio when they played records by Benny Goodman and Harry James and of the sort. But the record that got me was a record by Derek Sampson, who was a young guy, called 'Boogie Express,' and it was boogie-woogie. Really, it was on fire, and that got me. Jerry Leiber
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It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor. Jerry Leiber
Humor Black Those Yiddish Stories Things
Our songs did not transcend being R&B hits. They were R&B hits that white kids were attracted to. And if people bought it, it became rock & roll. That's marketing. Why couldn't it still be R&B? The bass pattern didn't change. The song didn't change. It was still 'Yakety Yak' and 'Searchin'.' Jerry Leiber
Change People Song White Bass Our Marketing Kids Songs Bought Attracted Became Rock Still Were Did Hits Roll Transcend Being Pattern Why
'Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric structure of the music was not easy. 'Kansas City' was maybe eight minutes, if that. Writing the early blues was spontaneous. You can hear the energy in the work. Jerry Leiber
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Elvis was incredibly cooperative. He would try anything. He wasn't a diva, no prima donna. When it came to work, he was a workhorse. Jerry Leiber
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