<P> `` Kansas City '' is a rhythm and blues song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller in 1952 . First recorded by Little Willie Littlefield the same year , the song later became a # 1 hit when it was recorded by Wilbert Harrison in 1959 . `` Kansas City '' became one of Leiber and Stoller 's `` most recorded tunes , with more than three hundred versions , '' with several appearing in the R&B and pop record charts . </P>
who wrote the song going to kansas city
Jerry Leiber Mike Stoller