Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

Procol Harum producers

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Thanks to davelee for transcribing this excerpt from The Record Producers by John Tobler and Stuart Grundy (The book from the BBC Radio 1 Series).

[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, Chysalis 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.

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