http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/08/22/arts/AP-US-Obit-Jerry-Leiber.html?hp
It would not have been the same without him …
Brill Building Emperor (along with Stoller).
R&R Hall of Fame, 1987.
+1 RIP Jerry, deep respect.
Between them, they wrote my youth soundtrack. A sad day.
What a talent, RIP indeed 
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I DL’d “Hound Dog” today in tribute. The Big Mamma Thornton version, not the much inferior Elvis version.
BTW – that Thornton version, recorded in 1952, sounds better than many modern recordings, including – especially – my own
Yes, another great one is gone…
R.I.P. Jerry.