Tuesday, August 23, 2011
When you consider the career of Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller you realize that any one of their hits would have been enough to have placed them among the all-time greats. How would you like to have Hound Dog on your resume? Or On Broadway? Or Kansas City? Or Chapel of Love? Or Leader of the Pack? Damn. They wrote Stuck in the Middle with You-- think of that. A song that Quentin Tarantino repurposed to great cultural import, a song that gave Gerry Rafferty enough scratch for him to underwrite Richard Thompson when Thompson needed it....
Thank you, Jerry. Rest in Peace.
(Oh, and sorry Nick Ashford. You were great too, but when Jerry Lieber dies he gets the lede.)
Thank you, Jerry. Rest in Peace.
(Oh, and sorry Nick Ashford. You were great too, but when Jerry Lieber dies he gets the lede.)
// posted by Bill @ 12:05 PM 
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