also in 2009 we were paid a visit by the legendary songwriting duo, jerry leiber and mike stoller. they wrote classics like "hound dog" for elvis pressly. they joined us that talk about their memoir called "hound dog." let me start with ow how music impacted you as kids. you were you grew up in queens and you grew up in baltimore. >> i think the first piece of music i ever heard that i really loved "dances" by straws. i played that -- di strauss. i played that and i would just keep playing it and playing it. then i heard "boogie boogie when i was eight years old. i went to a summer camp in new jersey and it was -- it was a totally interracial camp back in 1940. tavis: that is rare. >> very rare. very unusual. and very left wing of course at that time because anything that was interracial was considered subversive and left wing. and paul would come up and sing to us and woody guthrie. really subversive. tavis: but you got exposed to such an eclectic. >> i heard a young black pianist. he was a teenager. i was 8 years old. he was playing "boogie woogie" and he just nothinged me out. h

he and mike stoller penned some of the biggest hits of the 1950s, including one written for big mamafrom tennessee. >> ♪ you ain't nothing but a hound dog ♪ >> reporter: there was another tune that became most of the recorded popular songs ever. >> ♪ darling, darling stand by me ♪ >> jerry and mike were innovators because they were the first ones to ever put violins on an r&b song. there's a song called "there goes my baby." >> ♪ moving on down the line >> jerry lieber was one of my song writing idols as a kid growing up. >> reporter: over five decades, lieber and ashford wrote 20 number one hits. >> their songwriting was just phenomenal. songs are rerecorded and rerecorded and rerecorded. they live on and on and on. >> reporter: jerry lieber was 78 years old. nick ashford was 70. ben tracy, cbs news, los angeles. >> ♪ ain't nothing like the real thing, baby ♪ >> pelley: and we'll be right back. dad, why are you getting that? is there a prize in there? oh, there's a prize, all right. [ male announcer ] inside every box of cheerios are those great-tasting little o's made from carefull

lieber teamed up with musician mike stoller in 1950. ♪ there's a man in town all the women know ♪ > backe their songs recorded by a black r and b artists they admired. ♪ you ain't going to rock and ro no more ♪ >> reporter: in the 1995, lieber told our russ mitchell why. >> we were black. from where i'm sitting that's quite a statement. >> what did you mean by that? >> i'll tell you. >> i mean i at an early age decided that black people were hipper and smarter and nicer. that was true for me. ♪ you ain't nothing but a hound dog ♪ > but the song that put lieber and stoller on the map was'er formed by an up-and-coming white singer named elvis presley. ♪ you ain't no friend of mine ♪ > at least 50 of lieber's songs made it into the top 40. and the pair was inducted into the rock'n'roll hall of fame in 1987. >> we never planned to write rock'n'roll. we were just trying to write good rhythm and blues. >> reporter: jerry lieber was 78 years old. not that long ago, many families were priced out of an overheated housing market. but the times have changed. get the facts at remax.com. it's a great