The song was written by the prolific songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.  “Is That All There Is?” has little in common with their better known songs like “Jailhouse Rock”, “Hound Dog”, “Kansas City”, or the numerous hits by the Coasters; although songs that the two co-wrote with others, such as “Stand by Me” and “On Broadway” have some of the flavor of this song.   

(January 2014)

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Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller are another legendary songwriting duo, with Leiber doing the music and Stoller writing the lyrics.  They wrote rock standards like “Hound Dog” and “Kansas City”, as well as the Elvis Presley hits “Love Me”, “Jailhouse Rock”, “Loving You”, “Don’t”, and “King Creole”. 

(April 2015/1)