This blog is becoming quite the downer lately.
Jerry Leiber. One half of the legendary Leiber and Stoller songwriting team. ”Stand By Me,” with Ben E. King. ”Spanish Harlem,” with Phil Spector. ”On Broadway,” with Mann and Weil. Many Elvis Presley hits. I’ll choose to eulogize him with Peggy Lee’s “Is That All There Is,” a song introduced to me via Martin Scorsese’s After Hours (and also memorably quoted in The Simpsons), and a song that I still find uniquely perverse and haunting.
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