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Left clockwise: Carl Gatherer, Billy Nunn, Leon Filmmaker, Billy Guy
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| The Coasters | |
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| Origin | Los Angeles CA, USA |
| Genre(s) | Rhythm and Blues rock and roll |
| Years active | 1955 - 1972, and still touring |
| Label(s) | ATCO 1955-1966 Date, King 1966-1972 |
| Associated acts | The Robins |
| Website | Official website |
| Members | |
| The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Coasters: Carl Gardner Billy Guy Will "Dub" Jones Cornelius Gunter | |
The Coasters are a rhythm-and-blues and rock-and-roll vocal group that had a string of memorable hits in the late 1950s. Beginning with "Searchin'" and "Young Blood," their most famous songs, often in a humorous vein, were written by the songwriting and producing team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.
The group began as the The Robins, a Los Angeles R&B group. In 1955, Leiber and Stoller produced "Smokey Joe's Cafe," for them. It proved a hit, leading to a successful partnership between the songwriting team and the entertaining vocal group. The talented saxophone playing of King Curtis added classic solos that blending perfectly with the group's humorous style. The Coasters soon became a major feature of rock and roll's Golden Era, producing such songs as "Yakety Yak," "Charlie Brown," "Along Came Jones," "Poison Ivy,"
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Presenting:
THE COASTERS
"Those Hoodlum Friends"
A Biography - by Claus Röhnisch
"If rock ´n´ roll had produced nothing but the Coasters and Leiber and Stoller, it would still have commanded attention as the sound embodiment of a time and generation", Arnold Shaw wrote in his book "The Rockin´ ´50s". The Coasters are widely regarded as the pre-eminent vocal group of the original rock ´n´ roll era. "There never was - nor will there ever be - another group quite like the Coasters. Although they worked within the standard conventions of vocal group harmony, their signal achievement was to create - or to have created for them - a variety of comedic roles that both celebrated and satirized the mores of contemporary American life without falling victim to racial stereotyping. It´s impossible to gauge which was the luckier party, whether the Coasters were most fortunate to have Leiber and Stoller as their providers or the songwriters to have such capable vocalists to draw out the nuances and downright insinuations in their songs", Neil Slaven stated in a review in "Blues & Rhythm" magazine in late 1997.
The Coasters truly deserve their high rankings in music history - hand-chosen professi