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69-449: Leiber and Stoller 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

138-473: A chorus that contrasts melodically, rhythmically and harmonically with the verse . The beat and the melodies tend to be simple, with limited harmonic accompaniment. The lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes – often love and romantic relationships – although there are notable exceptions. Harmony and chord progressions in pop music are often "that of classical European tonality , only more simple-minded." Clichés include

207-507: A 1956 trip to Europe for Stoller and his first wife, Meryl, on which they met Piaf. Their return to New York was aboard the ill-fated SS Andrea Doria , which was rammed and sunk by the Swedish liner MS Stockholm . The Stollers had to finish the journey to New York aboard another ship, the Cape Ann . After their rescue, Leiber greeted Stoller at the dock with the news that " Hound Dog " had become

276-661: A 2011 Drama Desk Award nomination. On August 22, 2011, Leiber died in Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, aged 78, from cardio-pulmonary failure. He was survived by his sons Jed, Oliver, and Jake. Stoller wrote both music and lyrics to the song "Charlotte", recorded by Steve Tyrell and released in advance of the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. Leiber and Stoller won Grammy awards for " Is That All There Is? " in 1969, and for

345-475: A 50% songwriting credit. In 2009, Simon & Schuster published Hound Dog: The Leiber and Stoller Autobiography , written by Leiber and Stoller with David Ritz . As of 2007, their songs are managed by Sony/ATV Music Publishing . With collaborator Artie Butler , Stoller wrote the music to the musical The People in the Picture , with book and lyrics by Iris Rainer Dart . Stoller and Butler's music received

414-460: A basic format (often the verse–chorus structure ), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much of pop music also borrows elements from other styles such as rock, urban , dance , Latin , and country . The terms popular music and pop music are often used interchangeably, although the former more accurately describes all music that is targeted for mass appeal (compare art music ) and includes many disparate styles. Although much of

483-401: A hit for Brooks, and remains her signature tune . In 1978, mezzo-soprano Joan Morris and her pianist - composer husband William Bolcom recorded an album, Other Songs by Leiber and Stoller , featuring a number of the songwriters' more unusual (and satiric) works, including "Let's Bring Back World War I", written specifically for (and dedicated to) Bolcom and Morris; and "Humphrey Bogart",

552-687: A hit for Elvis Presley. Stoller's reply was, "Elvis who?" They would go on to write more hits for Presley, including the title songs for three of his movies— Loving You , Jailhouse Rock , and King Creole —as well as the rock and roll Christmas song, "Santa Claus Is Back in Town", for Presley's first Christmas album. On March 9, 1958, Leiber and Stoller appeared together on the TV panel quiz show What's My Line? as rock and roll composers of "Hounddog", "Jailhouse Rock" and "Don't". They were not household names and did not appear as celebrity mystery guests (a regular feature of

621-561: A hit for her in 1953. The 1956 Elvis Presley rock and roll version, which was a takeoff of the adaptation that Presley picked up from Freddie Bell 's lounge act in Las Vegas, was an even bigger hit. Presley's showstopping mock-burlesque version of "Hound Dog", playfully bumping and grinding on the Milton Berle Show , created such public outcry and controversy that on The Steve Allen Show they slowed down his act, with an amused Presley in

690-573: A hit for the Drifters in 1959, which introduced the use of strings for saxophone -like riffs , tympani for the Brazilian baion rhythm they incorporated, and lavish production values into the established black R&B sound, laying the groundwork for the soul music that would follow. Crossover music Crossover is a term applied to musical works or performers who appeal to different types of audiences . This can be seen, for example, when

759-399: A light entertainment and easy listening tradition. Pop music is more conservative than other music genres such as folk, blues, country, and tradition. Many pop songs do not contain themes of resistance, opposition, or politics, rather focusing more on love and relationships. Therefore, pop music does not challenge its audiences socially, and does not cause political activism. Frith also said

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828-428: A more toned-down style, often with changed lyrics , that lacked the hard edge of the original versions. These covers were popular with a much broader audience. Crossover frequently results from the appearance of the music in a film soundtrack. For instance, Sacred Harp music experienced a spurt of crossover popularity as a result of its appearance in the 2003 film Cold Mountain , and bluegrass music experienced

897-498: A pop song is to them, songs from the 1960s turned out to be the most memorable, significantly more than songs from recent years 2000 to 2015. Before the progressive pop of the late 1960s, performers were typically unable to decide on the artistic content of their music. Assisted by the mid-1960s economic boom, record labels began investing in artists, giving them the freedom to experiment, and offering them limited control over their content and marketing. This situation declined after

966-496: A revival due to the reception of 2000's O Brother, Where Art Thou? . Classical crossover broadly encompasses both classical music that has become popularized and a wide variety of popular music forms performed in a classical manner or by classical artists. It can also refer to collaborations between classical and popular performers, as well as music that blends elements of classical music (including operatic and symphonic ) with popular music (including pop , rock , middle of

1035-455: A separation which was "also, broadly, one between boys and girls, middle-class and working-class." The latter half of the 20th century included a large-scale trend in American culture in which the boundaries between art and pop music were increasingly blurred. Between 1950 and 1970, there was a debate of pop versus art. Since then, certain music publications have embraced the music's legitimacy,

1104-473: A song appears on two or more of the record charts , which track differing musical styles or genres . In some contexts, the term "crossover" can have negative connotations associated with cultural appropriation , implying the dilution of a music's distinctive qualities to appeal to mass tastes. For example, in the early years of rock and roll , many songs originally recorded by African-American musicians were re-recorded by white artists such as Pat Boone in

1173-416: A tendency to reflect existing trends rather than progressive developments ; and seeks to encourage dancing or uses dance-oriented rhythms. The main medium of pop music is the song, often between two and a half and three and a half minutes in length, generally marked by a consistent and noticeable rhythmic element , a mainstream style and a simple traditional structure . The structure of many popular songs

1242-472: A thriving pop music industry, most of which is devoted to Western-style pop. Japan has for several years produced a greater quantity of music than everywhere except the US. The spread of Western-style pop music has been interpreted variously as representing processes of Americanization, homogenization , modernization, creative appropriation, cultural imperialism , or a more general process of globalization . One of

1311-466: A tongue-in-cheek song about obsession with the actor . In 1979, Leiber and Stoller produced another album for Brooks: Live and Learn . In 1982, Steely Dan member Donald Fagen recorded their song " Ruby Baby " on his album The Nightfly . That same year, former Doobie Brothers member Michael McDonald released " I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near) ", inspired by Leiber and Stoller's " I Keep Forgettin' " for which they were eventually given

1380-483: A trend referred to as " poptimism ". Throughout its development, pop music has absorbed influences from other genres of popular music. Early pop music drew on traditional pop , an American counterpart to German Schlager and French Chanson , however compared to the pop of European countries, traditional pop originally emphasized influences ranging from Tin Pan Alley songwriting, Broadway theatre , and show tunes . As

1449-652: A tuxedo and blue suede shoes singing his hit to a basset hound . Allen pronounced Presley "a good sport", and the Leiber-Stoller song would be forever linked to Presley. Leiber and Stoller's later songs often had lyrics more appropriate for pop music , and their combination of rhythm and blues with pop lyrics revolutionized pop, rock and roll, and punk rock. They formed Spark Records in 1954 with their mentor, Lester Sill . Their songs from this period include "Smokey Joe's Cafe" and " Riot in Cell Block #9 ", both recorded by

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1518-528: A wide audience [...] since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the special meaning of non-classical mus[ic], usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as The Beatles , The Rolling Stones , ABBA , etc." Grove Music Online also states that "[...] in the early 1960s, [the term] 'pop music' competed terminologically with beat music [in England], while in the US its coverage overlapped (as it still does) with that of 'rock and roll'". From about 1967,

1587-417: Is "designed to appeal to everyone" but "doesn't come from any particular place or mark off any particular taste". Frith adds that it is "not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward [...] and, in musical terms, it is essentially conservative". It is, "provided from on high (by record companies, radio programmers, and concert promoters) rather than being made from below (...) Pop

1656-654: Is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. Rock and pop music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which pop became associated with music that was more commercial, ephemeral , and accessible. Identifying factors of pop music usually include repeated choruses and hooks , short to medium-length songs written in

1725-425: Is all the collective clubs around the world. Radio is just doing its best to keep up." Songs that talked of escapism through partying became the most popular, influenced by the impulse to forget the economic troubles that had taken over the world after the 2008 crash . Throughout the 2010s, a lot of pop music also began to take cues from Alternative pop . Popularized by artists such as Lana Del Rey and Lorde in

1794-461: Is an opera singer, of the Christmas song " O Come, All Ye Faithful ". Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins performed a duet with rock singer Michael Bolton of O Holy Night . Singers and instrumentalists from the classical tradition, Andreas Dorschel has argued, run the risk of losing the sophistication of the genre(s) they were trained in, when they try to perform rock music, without coming up to

1863-456: Is generally considered to be one of the first classical singers to have a successful crossover recording with her 1960 album I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues . The first Three Tenors concert in 1990 was a landmark in which Luciano Pavarotti , José Carreras and Plácido Domingo brought a combination of opera, Neapolitan folksong, musical theatre and pop to a vast television audience. This laid

1932-526: Is just the singles charts and not the sum of all chart music. The music charts contain songs from a variety of sources, including classical , jazz , rock , and novelty songs . As a genre, pop music is seen to exist and develop separately. Therefore, the term "pop music" may be used to describe a distinct genre, designed to appeal to all, often characterized as "instant singles-based music aimed at teenagers" in contrast to rock music as "album-based music for adults". Pop music continuously evolves along with

2001-470: Is largely the story of the intertwining pop culture of the United States and the United Kingdom in the postwar era.  — Bob Stanley According to Grove Music Online , "Western-derived pop styles, whether coexisting with or marginalizing distinctively local genres, have spread throughout the world and have come to constitute stylistic common denominators in global commercial music cultures". Some non-Western countries, such as Japan, have developed

2070-479: Is not a do-it-yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged". According to Frith, characteristics of pop music include an aim of appealing to a general audience, rather than to a particular sub-culture or ideology, and an emphasis on craftsmanship rather than formal "artistic" qualities. Besides, Frith also offers three identifying characteristics of pop music: light entertainment, commercial imperatives, and personal identification. Pop music grew out of

2139-430: Is that of a verse and a chorus, the chorus serving as the portion of the track that is designed to stick in the ear through simple repetition both musically and lyrically. The chorus is often where the music builds towards and is often preceded by "the drop" where the bass and drum parts "drop out". Common variants include the verse-chorus form and the thirty-two-bar form , with a focus on melodies and catchy hooks , and

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2208-589: The Procol Harum album Procol's Ninth , which included the UK Top 20 single "Pandora's Box" and a version of Leiber and Stoller's " I Keep Forgettin' ". In the late 1970s, A&M Records recruited Leiber and Stoller to write and produce an album for Elkie Brooks ; Two Days Away (1977) proved a success in the UK and most of Europe. Their composition " Pearl's a Singer " (written with Ralph Dino & John Sembello ) became

2277-434: The barbershop quartet-style harmony (i.e. ii – V – I) and blues scale -influenced harmony. There was a lessening of the influence of traditional views of the circle of fifths between the mid-1950s and the late 1970s, including less predominance for the dominant function . In October 2023, Billboard compiled a list of "the 500 best pop songs". In doing so, they noted the difficulty of defining "pop songs": One of

2346-589: The 1960s, Leiber and Stoller founded and briefly owned Red Bird Records , which issued the Shangri-Las ' " Leader of the Pack " and the Dixie Cups ' " Chapel of Love ". After selling Red Bird, they continued working as independent producers and songwriters. Their best-known song from this period is " Is That All There Is? " recorded by Peggy Lee in 1969; it earned her a Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Grammy . Earlier in

2415-435: The American and (from the mid-1960s) British music industries , whose influence has made pop music something of an international monoculture, but most regions and countries have their own form of pop music, sometimes producing local versions of wider trends, and lending them local characteristics. Some of these trends (for example Europop ) have had a significant impact on the development of the genre. The story of pop music

2484-461: The Coasters alone, they wrote 24 songs that appeared in the US charts. In 1955, Leiber and Stoller produced a recording of their song " Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots " with a white vocal group, the Cheers. Soon after, the song was recorded by Édith Piaf in a French translation titled, "L'Homme à la Moto". The European royalties from another Cheers record, "Bazoom (I Need Your Lovin')", funded

2553-618: The Robins . The label was later bought by Atlantic Records , which hired Leiber and Stoller in an innovative deal that allowed them to produce for other labels. This, in effect, made them the first independent record producers. At Atlantic, they revitalized the careers of the Drifters and wrote a number of hits for the Coasters , a spin-off of the Robins. Their songs from this period include " Charlie Brown ", " Searchin' ", " Yakety Yak ", " Stand By Me " (written with Ben E. King ), and " On Broadway " (written with Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil ). For

2622-487: The birth of the modern pop music industry, including in country , blues , and hillbilly music . According to the website of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , the term "pop music" "originated in Britain in the mid-1950s as a description for rock and roll and the new youth music styles that it influenced". The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pop's "earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to

2691-508: The cast album of Smokey Joe's Cafe , a 1995 Broadway musical revue based on their work. Smokey Joe's Cafe was also nominated for seven Tony awards , and became the longest-running musical revue in Broadway history. Other awards include: In the 1950s the rhythm and blues of the black entertainment world, up to then restricted to black clubs, was increasing its audience-share in areas previously reserved for traditional pop music , and

2760-607: The classics has been through their use as inspirational anthems in sports settings. The aria " Nessun Dorma " from Puccini 's Turandot , especially Luciano Pavarotti 's version, has become indissolubly linked with soccer. Within the classical recording industry, the term "crossover" is applied particularly to classical artists' recordings of popular repertoire such as Broadway show tunes. Two examples of this are Lesley Garrett 's excursions into musical comedy and José Carreras 's recording West Side Story , as well as Teresa Stratas ' recording Showboat . Soprano Eileen Farrell

2829-770: The decade, it was common for pop producers, songwriters, and engineers to freely experiment with musical form, orchestration , unnatural reverb , and other sound effects. Some of the best known examples are Phil Spector 's Wall of Sound and Joe Meek 's use of homemade electronic sound effects for acts like the Tornados . At the same time, pop music on radio and in both American and British film moved away from refined Tin Pan Alley to more eccentric songwriting and incorporated reverb-drenched electric guitar, symphonic strings, and horns played by groups of properly arranged and rehearsed studio musicians. A 2019 study held by New York University in which 643 participants had to rank how familiar

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2898-496: The decade, they had a hit with Lee with " I'm a Woman " (1962). Their last major hit production was " Stuck in the Middle With You " by Stealers Wheel , taken from the band's 1972 eponymous debut album, which the duo produced. In 1975, they recorded Mirrors , an album of art songs with Peggy Lee. A remixed and expanded version of the album was released in 2005 as Peggy Lee Sings Leiber and Stoller . Also in 1975, they produced

2967-514: The foundations for the modern flourishing of classical crossover. Collaborations between classical and popular performers have included Sting and Edin Karamazov 's album Songs from the Labyrinth . A collaboration between Freddie Mercury and soprano Montserrat Caballé resulted in the worldwide hit " Barcelona ". R&B singer Mariah Carey performed a live duet with her mother Patricia, who

3036-578: The genre evolved more influences ranging from classical , folk , rock , country , electronic music , and other popular genres became more prominent. In 2016, a Scientific Reports study that examined over 464,000 recordings of popular music recorded between 1955 and 2010 found that, compared to 1960s pop music, contemporary pop music uses a smaller variety of pitch progressions, greater average volume, less diverse instrumentation and recording techniques, and less timbral variety. Scientific American ' s John Matson reported that this "seems to support

3105-593: The guitar solo on the Drifters' " On Broadway ". After leaving the employ of Atlantic Records—where they produced, and often wrote, many classic recordings by the Drifters with Ben E. King —Leiber and Stoller produced a series of records for United Artists Records , including hits by Jay and the Americans (" She Cried "), the Exciters ("Tell Him"), and the Clovers (" Love Potion #9 ", also written by Leiber and Stoller). In

3174-409: The home. By the early 1980s, the promotion of pop music had been greatly affected by the rise of music television channels like MTV , which "favoured those artists such as Michael Jackson and Madonna who had a strong visual appeal". Multi-track recording (from the 1960s) and digital sampling (from the 1980s) have also been used as methods for the creation and elaboration of pop music. During

3243-414: The late 1970s and would not reemerge until the rise of Internet stars. Indie pop , which developed in the late 1970s, marked another departure from the glamour of contemporary pop music, with guitar bands formed on the then-novel premise that one could record and release their own music without having to procure a record contract from a major label. The 1980s are commonly remembered for an increase in

3312-401: The late 20th century that became global superstars include Whitney Houston , Michael Jackson , Madonna , George Michael , and Prince . At the beginning of the 2000s, the trends that dominated during the late 1990s still continued, but the music industry started to change as people began to download music from the internet. People were able to discover genres and artists that were outside of

3381-501: The main purpose of pop music is to create revenue. It is not a medium of free articulation of the people. Instead, pop music seeks to supply the nature of personal desire and achieve the instant empathy with cliche personalities, stereotypes, and melodrama that appeals to listeners. It is mostly about how much revenue pop music makes for record companies. Music scholar Timothy Warner said pop music typically has an emphasis on recording, production, and technology, rather than live performance;

3450-508: The mainstream and propel them to fame, but at the same time smaller artists had a harder time making a living because their music was being pirated. Popular artists were Avril Lavigne , Justin Timberlake , NSYNC , Christina Aguilera , Destiny's Child , and Britney Spears . Pop music often came from many different genres, with each genre in turn influencing the next one, blurring the lines between them and making them less distinct. This change

3519-448: The manner in which pop has been disseminated", which helped to move pop music to "a record/radio/film star system". Another technological change was the widespread availability of television in the 1950s with televised performances, which meant that "pop stars had to have a visual presence". In the 1960s, the introduction of inexpensive, portable transistor radios meant that teenagers in the developed world could listen to music outside of

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3588-403: The mid-1960s, pop music made repeated forays into new sounds, styles, and techniques that inspired public discourse among its listeners. The word "progressive" was frequently used, and it was thought that every song and single was to be a "progression" from the last. Music critic Simon Reynolds writes that beginning with 1967, a divide would exist between "progressive" pop and "mass/chart" pop,

3657-421: The music that appears on record charts is considered to be pop music, the genre is distinguished from chart music . David Hatch and Stephen Millward describe pop music as "a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz, and folk music". David Boyle, a music researcher, states pop music as any type of music that a person has been exposed to by the mass media. Most individuals think that pop music

3726-490: The need to categorize music. In the 2008 Polish release of her Symphony album she sings " I Will Be with You (Where the Lost Ones Go) " with Polish tenor Andrzej Lampert , another artist who has performed in both classical and non-classical styles, as well as having actually obtained full musical training and academic degrees in both (though operatic singing is his main professional focus ). Pop music Pop music

3795-464: The often rough and wild qualities of the latter. Italian pop tenor Andrea Bocelli , who is the biggest-selling singer in the history of classical music, has been described as the king of classical crossover. British soprano Sarah Brightman is also considered a crossover classical artist, having released albums of classical, folk, pop and musical-theatre music. Brightman dislikes the classical crossover label, though she has said she understands

3864-511: The phenomenon now known as " crossover " became apparent. Leiber and Stoller affected the course of modern popular music in 1957, when they wrote and produced the crossover double-sided hit by the Coasters, " Young Blood "/" Searchin' ". They released " Yakety Yak ", which was a mainstream hit, as was the follow-up, " Charlie Brown ". This was followed by " Along Came Jones ", " Poison Ivy ", " Shoppin' for Clothes ", and " Little Egypt (Ying-Yang) ". They produced and co-wrote " There Goes My Baby ",

3933-802: The pop music styles that developed alongside other music styles is Latin pop , which rose in popularity in the US during the 1950s with early rock and roll success Ritchie Valens . Later, Los Lobos and Chicano rock gained in popularity during the 1970s and 1980s, and musician Selena saw large-scale popularity in the 1980s and 1990s, along with crossover appeal with fans of Tejano musicians Lydia Mendoza and Little Joe . With later Hispanic and Latino Americans seeing success within pop music charts, 1990s pop successes stayed popular in both their original genres and in broader pop music. Latin pop hit singles, such as " Macarena " by Los del Río and " Despacito " by Luis Fonsi , have seen record-breaking success on worldwide pop music charts. Notable pop artists of

4002-400: The popular anecdotal observation that pop music of yore was "better", or at least more varied, than today's top-40 stuff". However, he also noted that the study may not have been entirely representative of pop in each generation. In the 1960s, the majority of mainstream pop music fell in two categories: guitar, drum and bass groups or singers backed by a traditional orchestra. Since early in

4071-775: The pseudonym Elmo Glick . In 1964, they launched Red Bird Records with George Goldner and, focusing on the " girl group " sound, released some of the notable songs of the Brill Building period. In all, Leiber and Stoller wrote or co-wrote over 70 chart hits . They were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1985 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. Both born to Jewish families, Leiber came from Baltimore , Maryland , and Stoller from Queens , New York , but they met in Los Angeles , California , in 1950, where Stoller

4140-503: The reasons pop can be hard to summarize is because there’s no real sonic or musical definition to it. There are common elements to a lot of the biggest pop songs, but at the end of the day, "pop" means "popular" first and foremost, and just about any song that becomes popular enough...can be considered a pop song. In the 1940s, improved microphone design allowed a more intimate singing style and, ten or twenty years later, inexpensive and more durable 45 rpm records for singles "revolutionized

4209-462: The road , and Latin , among other types). Pop vocalists and musicians, opera singers, classical instrumentalists, and occasionally rock groups primarily perform classical crossover. Although the phenomenon has long been widespread in the music industry, record companies first used the term "classical crossover" in the 1980s. It has gained in popularity since the 1990s and has acquired its own Billboard chart. A means of generating vast popularity for

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4278-603: The show) but as ordinary people with an unusual “line” of work. They even signed in under their own names, as the producers apparently were certain that the panel would not know who they were. In the beginning of the 1960s, they started Daisy Records and recorded Bob Moore and The Temps (with Roy Buchanan ) on their label. In the early 1960s, Phil Spector served an apprenticeship of sorts with Leiber and Stoller in New York City , developing his record producer 's craft while observing and playing guitar on their sessions, including

4347-399: The term "pop music" was increasingly used in opposition to the term rock music, a division that gave generic significance to both terms. While rock aspired to authenticity and an expansion of the possibilities of popular music, pop was more commercial, ephemeral, and accessible. According to British musicologist Simon Frith , pop music is produced "as a matter of enterprise not art", and

4416-419: The term's definition. According to music writer Bill Lamb, popular music is defined as "the music since industrialization in the 1800s that is most in line with the tastes and interests of the urban middle class." The term "pop song" was first used in 1926, in the sense of a piece of music "having popular appeal". Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as

4485-623: The use of digital recording , associated with the usage of synthesizers , with synth-pop music and other electronic genres featuring non-traditional instruments increasing in popularity. By 2014, pop music worldwide had been permeated by electronic dance music . In 2018, researchers at the University of California, Irvine , concluded that pop music has become 'sadder' since the 1980s. The elements of happiness and brightness have eventually been replaced with electronic beats making pop music more 'sad yet danceable'. Pop music has been dominated by

4554-446: Was Michael Stoller, but he later changed it legally to "Mike". Their first hit composition was "Hard Times", recorded by Charles Brown , which was a rhythm and blues hit in 1952. "Kansas City", first recorded in 1952 (as "K. C. Loving") by rhythm & blues singer Little Willie Littlefield , became a No. 1 pop hit in 1959 for Wilbert Harrison . In 1952, the partners wrote " Hound Dog " for blues singer Big Mama Thornton , which became

4623-496: Was a freshman at Los Angeles City College while Leiber was a senior at Fairfax High . Stoller had graduated from Belmont High School . After school, Stoller played piano and Leiber worked in Norty's, a record store on Fairfax Avenue, and when they met, they found they shared a love of blues and rhythm and blues . In 1950, Jimmy Witherspoon recorded and performed their first commercial song, "Real Ugly Woman". Stoller's name at birth

4692-453: Was epitomized in Spears' highly influential 2007 album Blackout , which under the influence of producer Danja , mixed the sounds of EDM , avant-funk , R&B , dance music , and hip hop . By 2010, pop music impacted by dance music came to be dominant on the charts. Instead of radio setting the trends, it was now the club. At the beginning of the 2010s, Will.i.am stated, "The new bubble

4761-510: Was openly theatrical rather than personal. Leiber and Stoller wrote hits for Elvis Presley , including " Love Me " (1956), " Jailhouse Rock " (1957), " Loving You ", " Don't ", and " King Creole ". They also collaborated with other writers on such songs as " On Broadway ", written with Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil ; " Stand By Me ", written with Ben E. King ; "Young Blood", written with Doc Pomus ; and " Spanish Harlem ", co-written by Leiber and Phil Spector . They were sometimes credited under

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