Wall of Sound but Phil came along and took these to make sounds that had not been used in the past. I thought it was ingenious." During the mid-1950s, Spector worked with Brill Building songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller during a period where they sought a fuller sound by the use of excessive instrumentation, using up to five electric guitars and four percussionists. This was later to evolve into Spector's Wall of Sound, which Leiber and Stoller consider to be very distinct from what they were doing, stating: "Phil was the first one to use multiple drum kits, three pianos and so
Mike and the Mad Dog that intensity, that bravado, that fierce individual personality to our show, and that's what I thought made it so good." George Vecsey of "The New York Times" once described Russo's voice as "a bizarre mixture of Jerry Lewis, Archie Bunker and Daffy Duck." His voice has also been described as "Donald Duck on steroids." Both Francesa and Russo credited Imus for making the pairing possible. Russo said, "Imus was very, very, very, "very" important to the development of FAN... He solved a lot of problems for the company." Francesa said, "Without Imus, there's no "Mike and the Mad Dog", there's