This week's show features the story of Spark Records, one of the premiere short-lived R&B record labels of the 1950s. Started by songwriters Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller after they were stiffed on royalty payments for Big Mama Thornton's "Hound Dog," Spark records only lasted for a year and a half. In that time they wrote and produced some of early rock's most defining songs. Produced for Pacifica Radio in Salem, MA.