Trouble - ( Riot in Cell Block Number Nine)

Elvis's Comeback special starts with Trouble from King Creole but writers Lieber & Stoller had already written a similiar No  - Riot in Cell block No Nine for the Robins and Coasters & it also predates their song Jailhouse Rock for Elvis.This is a more recent version and topical still!

The Robins version 

http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/interview_with_mike_stoller.shtml

The above link is to an informative interview with Mike Stoller.

Lieber and Stoller  - From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Leiber_and_Mike_Stoller

Lyricist Jerome "Jerry" Leiber (born April 25, 1933) and composer Mike Stoller (born March 13, 1933) are among the most influential American songwriters and record producers in post-World War II popular music.

Their first successes were as the writers of such crossover hit songs as "Hound Dog" and "Kansas City." Later in the 1950s, particularly through their work with The Coasters, they created a string of ground-breaking hits that are some of the most entertaining in rock and roll, by using the humorous vernacular of the teenagers sung in a style that was openly theatrical rather than personal, songs that include "Young Blood," "Searchin'," and "Yakety Yak." They were the first to surround black music with elaborate production values, enhancing its emotional power with The Drifters in "There Goes My Baby" and influencing Phil Spector who worked with them on recordings of The Drifters and Ben E. King. Leiber and Stoller went into the record business and, focusing on the "girl group" sound, released some of the greatest classics of the Brill Building period.

An interesting blog post on the songwriters here http://twilightstarsong.blogspot.com/2010/09/music-monday-leiber-stoller-songwriters.html

RIOT IN CELL BLOCK NO.9
(Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller)

The Robins - 1954
Wee Willie Harris - 1958
Johnny Cash - 1962
Dr. Feelgood - 1979
Blues Brothers - 1983

On July second, 1953,
I was serving time for armed robbery
'Bout four in the morning
I was sleepin' in my cell
I heard a whistle blow
I heard somebody yell

There's a riot goin' on
There's a riot goin' on
There's a riot goin' on
Up in cell block number nine

The trouble started in cell block no. 4
It spread like fire across the prison floor
I said "Come on boys, get ready to run -
Here comes the warden with a tommy gun"

There's a riot goin' on
There's a riot goin' on
There's a riot goin' on
Up in cell block number nine

The warden said
"Come out with your hands up in the air
If you don't stop this riot
You're all gonna get the chair"
Scarface Jones said, "It's too late to quit
And pass the dynamite, 'cause the fuse is lit"

There's a riot goin' on
There's a riot goin' on
There's a riot goin' on
Up in cell block number nine

The ninety-second hour
The tear gas got our men
Crawled in our cells
But every now and then...

There's a riot goin' on
There's a riot goin' on
There's a riot goin' on
Up in cell block number nine


.................


And the lyrics for

Trouble

(Words & music by Leiber - Stoller)


If you're looking for trouble


You came to the right place


If you're looking for trouble


Just look right in my face


I was born standing up


And talking back


My daddy was a green-eyed mountain jack


Because I'm evil, my middle name is misery


Well I'm evil, so don't you mess around with me



I've never looked for trouble


But I've never ran


I don't take no orders


From no kind of man


I'm only made out


Of flesh, blood and bone


But if you're gonna start a rumble


Don't you try it on alone


Because I'm evil, my middle name is misery


Well I'm evil, so don't you mess around with me


I'm evil, evil, evil, as can be


I'm evil, evil, evil, as can be


So don't mess around don't mess around don't mess around with me


I'm evil, I'm evil, evil, evil


So don't mess around, don't mess around with me


I'm evil, I tell you I'm evil


So don't mess around with me


Yeah!