Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

Procol Harum producers

[Leiber and Stoller wrote and worked with Elvis Presley, The Coasters and The Drifters. In the mid 1970s they were in London producing Stealer's Wheel ... and of course their I Keep Forgetting graces Procol's Ninth]

Stoller: And then, because of the great success with Stealer's Wheel, I think, Chrysalis contacted us to do Procol Harum, and with them, we had a pretty good sized hit. We created the arrangement in the studio with marimbas and bass marimbas and so forth, then later added horns and that kind of thing.

Roxie Wade adds Here's a picture of L&S from the Q Magazine Photographic Supplement/Vol. 4-Songwriters (possibly 1991?). This picture refers to L&S working with Stealers Wheel & PH, and was under a larger picture of L&S with Elvis Presley in 1956. For other mis-spellings of 'Procol' please click here

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