<P> `` Spanish Harlem '' is a song released by Ben E. King in 1960 on Atco Records , written by Jerry Leiber and Phil Spector , and produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller . During a 1968 interview , Leiber credited Stoller with the arrangement ; similarly , in a 2009 radio interview with Leiber and Stoller on the Bob Edwards Weekend talk show , Jerry Leiber said that Stoller , while uncredited , had written the key instrumental introduction to the record . In the team 's autobiography from the same year , Hound Dog , Stoller himself remarks that he had created this `` fill '' while doing a piano accompaniment when the song was presented to Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler at Atlantic Records , with Spector playing guitar and Leiber doing the vocal . `` Since then , I 've never heard the song played without that musical figure . I presumed my contribution was seminal to the composition , but I also knew that Phil did n't want to share credit with anyone but Jerry , so I kept quiet . '' </P>
<P> `` Spanish Harlem '' is a song released by Ben E. King in 1960 on Atco Records , written by Jerry Leiber and Phil Spector , and produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller . During a 1968 interview , Leiber credited Stoller with the arrangement ; similarly , in a 2009 radio interview with Leiber and Stoller on the Bob Edwards Weekend talk show , Jerry Leiber said that Stoller , while uncredited , had written the key instrumental introduction to the record . In the team 's autobiography from the same year , Hound Dog , Stoller himself remarks that he had created this `` fill '' while doing a piano accompaniment when the song was presented to Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler at Atlantic Records , with Spector playing guitar and Leiber doing the vocal . `` Since then , I 've never heard the song played without that musical figure . I presumed my contribution was seminal to the composition , but I also knew that Phil did n't want to share credit with anyone but Jerry , so I kept quiet . '' </P>
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Jerry Leiber and Phil Spector ,
Jerry Leiber and Phil Spector ,