Nightly News   |  August 22, 2011

Songwriter Jerry Leiber died

Lyricist Jerry Leiber, known to music fans as one half of Lieber and Stoller, has died. He was 78. NBC's Brian Williams reports.

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>>> jerry leiber has died, known to music fans has 1/2 of lieber and stoller, along with his singing partner jerry stoller. even the partial list of what hilts jerry leiber left us with, hound dog , jailhouse rock , poison ivy , spanish harlem , take out the paper and the trash or you don't get no spending cash. jerry leiber dead at 78.