Episode #2021
5/23 Other Songs by Lieber and Stoller If I usually play songs from the Great American Songbook, then what am I doing playing songs by Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller, the two Jewish kids who helped to invent rock and roll? A few years after such songs as "Hound Dog," they began to write a different kind of song--more introspective, more unsettling, more ambiguous. Songs that offered no easy adolescent excitement, that evoked a darker setting, a dimly-lit cabaret rather than a dance hall.
