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- Birth nameJerome Leiber
- Half of the songwriting team of Leiber and Stoller, Jerry Leiber wrote many hit songs with his partner Mike Stoller, including many for Elvis Presley and The Coasters. Leiber was born on April 25, 1933 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA as Jerome Leiber. He was married to Gaby Rodgers. He died on August 22, 2011 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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- SpousesGaby Rodgers(? - August 22, 2011) (his death)
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- With Mike Stoller, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame under the category Non-Performer (1987).
- He and his creative partner, Mike Stoller, met in Los Angeles when they were 17, and worked together until Jerry's death in 2011, at age 78. Their collaboration was detailed in their memoir, "Hound Dog: The Leiber & Stoller Autobiography" (2009), and their music was showcased in their Grammy-winning Broadway musical, "Smokey Joe's Cafe".
- Wrote the lyrics and partner Mike Stoller) wrote music for numerous songs for Elvis Presley including: "(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care" / "Bossa Nova Baby" / "Dirty, Dirty Feeling" / "Don't" / "Fools Fall in Love" / "Girls! Girls! Girls!" / "Hot Dog" / "Hound Dog" / "I Want to Be Free" / "If You Don't Come Back" / "Jailhouse Rock" / "Just Tell Her Jim Said Hello" / "King Creole" / "Little Egypt" / "Love Me" / "Loving You" / "Santa Claus is Back in Town" / "Saved" / "She's Not You" (with Doc Pomus) / "Steadfast, Loyal, and True" / "Three Corn Patches" / "Treat Me Nice" / "Trouble" / "You're the Boss". The duo reportedly wrote "Baby I Don't Care", "I Want to Be Free", "Jailhouse Rock" and "Treat Me Nice" over a period of four hours one afternoon.
- He and partner Mike Stoller were awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 7083 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
- He and his German-born, actress wife, Gaby Rodgers (nee Gabrielle Rosenberg), the daughter of a major art dealer, had three sons: Jed Leiber, Oliver Leiber and Jake Leiber.
- 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.
- [on writing "Hound Dog" with Mike Stoller] I yelled, he played. The groove came together and we finished in 12 minutes flat. I work fast. We raced right back to lay the song on [Big Mama Thornton].
- Often I would have a start, two or four lines. [Mike Stoller] would sit at the piano and start to jam, just playing, fooling around, and I'd throw out a line. He would accommodate the line--metrically, rhythmically.
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