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Thread #139869 Message #3211182
Posted By: Larry The Radio Guy
22-Aug-11 - 09:15 PM
Thread Name: Obit: Jerry Leiber RIP August 2011
Subject: RE: Obit: Jerry Lieber RIP August 2011
If you want to experience some of their ultimate wit and genius, listen to an LP from 1979 (I believe) called Mirrors.
Joan MOrris also did an lp of some of the more artful Leiber and Stoller songs.
Professor Hauptman's Performing Dogs----a great expose of the rise of Nazism in the U.S.
Learning to Begin Again -- an almost frightening (yet humorous) description of our obsession with "surfaces".
Is That All There Is? # 1 on the Existentialist's hit parade.
If they hadn't written all that great novelty stuff in the 50's, Leiber and Stoller probably would have gained a reputation for their "art songs".