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Images View Larger Images Shakespeare probably felt the same way. "As far as we were concerned, all the standards had been written," says Mike Stoller, who writes the music.

As a boy in grade school, I still hadn't done my chores when my dad started singing a song I'd heard all too often when delinquent in my household duties: Take out the papers and the trash Or you don't get no spending cash.

Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller were only 17 years old when they met.A They were a couple of white Jewish kids who wanted to write songs for black artists.

Hound Dog: The Leiber and Stoller Autobiography By Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller with David Ritz Simon & Schuster 322 pp., $25 If you've never been compelled to sing along to "every night when you're sleepin' poison ivy comes creepin' arowowound" or "yakety-yak - " don't talk back!" or curled your lip, Elvis-style, to snarl, "you ain't nuthin' but ...