Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller Lyricist Jerome Leiber (April 25, 1933 – August 22, 2011) and composer Michael Stoller; (born March 13, 1933) were American songwriting and record producing partners. They found success as the writers of such crossover hit songs as "Hound Dog" (1952) and "Kansas City" (1952). Later in the 1950s, particularly through their work with The Coasters, they created a string of ground-breaking hits—including "Young Blood" (1957), "Searchin'" (1957), and "Yakety Yak" (1958)—that used the humorous vernacular of teenagers sung in a style that was openly theatrical rather than personal. They were the first to surround black
Jerry G. Bishop show Dialing For Dollars on WFLD-TV, which was also located in Marina City in what is now The House of Blues building. This affiliation with WFLD would, of course, lead to Jerry inventing his most famous role as Svengoolie on Channel 32's Screaming Yellow Theater in 1971. Bishop was the announcer of the station's Friday-night scary-movie anthology "Screaming Yellow Theater," when he had an idea to create a live host for the program-the character that became known as Svengoolie - at first a Bela Lugosi-type voice under a title-card (and over Link Wray's 1958 hit "Rumble"), then on-screen, in the