Louise Goffin hosts and produces Song Chronicles, a podcast featuring conversations with legendary songwriters, musicians and producers from the relaxed perspective of an insider, talking the "inside baseball" of songs and record-making with peers. Song Chronicles creates an exclusive record of historic stories told by the music makers themselves. Guests have included 23x GRAMMY-winning sound engineer and producer Al Schmitt, 7x GRAMMY-winner Gloria Estefan, multi-platinum songwriter-producers Desmond Child and Sam Hollander, and many more. Song Chronicles follows where The Great Song Adventure left off, an earlier podcast co-hosted with author and songwriter, Paul Zollo where they interviewed songwriters like Mike Stoller, Chrissie Hynde, Chris Difford and Chuck D. The Great Song Adventure archives includes an intimate five-part interview with Carole King, which remains King's most extensive interview to date.
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Monday Dec 31, 2018
Monday Dec 31, 2018
Episode 15
Mike Stoller
Part 2.
Mike Stoller at Home, August 2018.
All Photos by Paul Zollo
The Great Song Adventure had the glorious privilege of interviewing Mike Stoller, one of the world's most legendary living songwriters, at his beautiful home high in the hills above Los Angeles, summer of `18.
With his partner, Jerry Leiber, who mostly wrote lyrics as Mike mostly wrote the music (though this overlapped at times), he's the writer of countless classic songs, songs which are all modern standards now, including "Stand By Me" (written with and performed by Ben E. King), "Spanish Harlem (written with Phil Spector), "Is That All There Is?", "Love Potion # 9," "Jailhouse Rock," "Kansas City," "Hound Dog" and more. Much more.
So as to ensure their songs would be well-produced, they became producers - even before that term was used. ("We preferred 'director' to 'producer'," Mike said. "But we were over-ruled." )
This is Part 2 of our two-part interview, recorded in August, 2018.
Mike with Louise Goffin
All Photos by PAUL ZOLLO
Paul Zollo Photography
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