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Top 7 Perform | TV Show Recaps | 11/17/2007
This is a week that I have a tough time relating to. Born in ’76, I never really got the full impact of '60s music and never heard enough that excited me to make me want to go back and visit it. I know this sounds strange coming from a guy that found enough stuff exciting to own 4,000+ pieces of audio from the '80s, which is arguably the worst decade for music. (At least I know El DeBarge and Taco would be on my side of the debate). So a song like "Some Other Guy" is almost like listening to an original for me. Fortunately though, Leiber and Stoller wrote a lot of great tunes that were covered by a mess of bands, so I’m sure I can say I’ve heard most. Side note: Many of the artists I will type as the performer of the songs really aren’t the original performers and I know that. But the artists I type are the versions that I remember as the hits. In a lot of cases, the original Leiber and Stoller song was performed by a soul group to little fanfare and then turned ... read more

more Jerry Leiber news (1 total news articles)

Title	Year	Type
Cry-Baby (Music/Lyrics Composer)	1990	Movie
Without You, I'm Nothing (Music/Lyrics Composer)	1990	Movie
American Masters: Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built (Remarks by)		Episode
Biography: Burt Bacharach (Remarks by)		Episode
Biography: Words and Music by Leiber & Stoller (Subject (person only))		Episode

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