Mickey Lee Lane (born Sholom Mayer Schreiber; February 2, 1941, Rochester, New York – March 18, 2011) was an American songwriter and arranger.
Lane got a job in the Brill Building as a songwriter in the 1950s, working with Neil Sedaka as a touring pianist and Bill Haley as a songwriter. In addition, he released some singles on Brunswick Records and Swan Records in the 1950s and 1960s; one of them, "Shaggy Dog", became a hit and peaked at #38 on the Billboard Hot 100. His tune "Hey Sah-Lo-Ney" was covered by British group The Action, The Detroit Cobras (retitled "Hey Sailor") and Ronnie Spector on her solo album The Last of the Rock Stars.
Lane continued working as a recording engineer from the late 1960s into the 1990s. Toward the end of the century, a compilation disc entitled Rockin' On...And Beyond was released, which featured both his previous singles and unreleased material.
Links to Peel[]
Peel would sometimes play tracks from Mickey Lee Lane on his programmes and after his death, it was later found out that he had a copy of the singer's 'Tutti Frutti' single in his record box. The single was the object of the Little Richard Cover Search.
Shows Played[]
- PM055: Tuitti Fruitti (7") Mala 12,032 16 December 1977 or 19 December 1977 or 20 December 1977
- 1979
- 16 August 1979: Tutti Frutti (single) Mala
- 1988
- 01 August 1988: 'The Zoo (Compilation LP-Too Much Goin' On: 16 Yelpin' Scalpin' Pow-Wowing Tunes)' (Candy Kat)
- 1993
- 27 March 1993: Tuitti Frutti (7") Mala
- 07 April 1993 (John Peel Is Jakki Brambles): Tutti Frutti (single) Mala
- 10 April 1993 (BFBS): Tutti Frutti (7" - Tutti Frutti / With Your Love) Mala
- 10 July 1993: Tutti Frutti (7 inch)’ (Mala Records) (JP: ...‘that was the record I was searching for, for so long. The object of the search campaign that continued for about six months. Having found it, of course, my enthusiasm for continuing to look for it , if you see what I mean, has diminished somewhat but I will press on because I did come up with some interesting old records in the course of it.’)
- 1996
- 04 April 1996: The Zoo (7") Rollercoaster
- 2000
- 03 February 2000 (Radio Eins): Hey Sha-Lo-Ney
- 2002
- 22 October 2002: Tutti Frutti (7") Mala
- 31 October 2002 (Radio Eins): Tutti Frutti (7")