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Leiber-Stoller is a Blues and Rhythm and blues act. Their sound grew out of Jimmy Witherspoon, Charles Brown, Big Mama Thornton, Elvis Presley and The Drifters. Those roots explain a lot about how Leiber-Stoller arrange songs and choose their tones. Their influence carried into The Rolling Stones, Now!, The Coasters, Elvis Presley and The Drifters, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 14 connections around Leiber-Stoller, reaching back through Jimmy Witherspoon and forward to The Rolling Stones, Now!. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Leiber and Stoller were an American songwriting and record-production duo, consisting of lyricist Jerome Leiber and composer Michael Stoller. They wrote many R&B and pop hits, as well as numerous Broadway standards.
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Leiber-Stoller grew out of Jimmy Witherspoon, Charles Brown, Big Mama Thornton and Elvis Presley, went on to shape The Rolling Stones, Now!, The Coasters, Elvis Presley and The Drifters. 14 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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