High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "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.