COASTERS Singles A's And B's 1955-1959

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COASTERS: Singles A's And B's 1955-1959

(2009/JASMINE) 30 tracks

Article properties: COASTERS: Singles A's And B's 1955-1959

Interpret: COASTERS
Album titlle: Singles A's And B's 1955-1959
Preiscode JAS
Genre R&B, Soul
Label Jasmine Records
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0604988052121
weight in Kg 0.1

Coasters, The - Singles A's And B's 1955-1959 CD 1
01	Riot In Cell Block No. 9	COASTERS
02	Wrap It Up	COASTERS
03	Loop De Loop Mambo	COASTERS
04	Framed	COASTERS
05	If Teardrops Were Kisses	COASTERS
06	Whadaya Want?	COASTERS
07	One Kiss	COASTERS
08	I Love Paris	COASTERS
09	I Must Be Dreamin´	COASTERS
10	The Hatchet Man	COASTERS
11	Smokey Joe´s Cafe	COASTERS
12	Just Like A Fool	COASTERS
13	Down In Mexico	COASTERS
14	Turtle Dovin´	COASTERS
15	One Kiss Led To Another	COASTERS
16	Brazil	COASTERS
17	Young Blood	COASTERS
18	Searchin´	COASTERS
19	Idol With The Golden Head	COASTERS
20	(When She Wants Good Lovin´)My Baby Comes...	COASTERS
21	Sweet Georgia Brown	COASTERS
22	What Is The Secret Of Your Success?	COASTERS
23	Gee, Golly	COASTERS
24	Dance!	COASTERS
25	Yakety Yak	COASTERS
26	Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart	COASTERS
27	The Shadow Kinows	COASTERS
28	Sorry But I´m Gonna Have To Pass	COASTERS
29	Charlie Brown	COASTERS
30	Hey Sexy	COASTERS

The Coasters Besame Mucho Even The Coasters, clown princes of rock and roll, were in a... more

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The Coasters

Besame Mucho

Even The Coasters, clown princes of rock and roll, were in a spicy Latin mood. That was the doing of their Atco producers, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who were enjoying much success applying saucy baion rhythms to the output of The Drifters.

After a stellar 1959 that found them crashing the pop Top Ten three times with the Leiber/Stoller comic playlets Charlie Brown (it's on our previous disc), the Western sendup Along Came Jones, and Poison Ivy, The Coasters cooled off in '60. Their top seller, Wake Me, Shake Me, didn't even crack the Top 50. Another 1960 release, the ghetto vignette Shoppin' For Clothes, was credited to Leiber and Stoller but was an uncredited adaptation of Boogaloo and His Gallant Crew's '56 release Clothes Line (Wrap It Up) on L.A.-based Crest Records. Boogaloo was actually its writer, Kent Harris (eventually authorship was credited to all three).

Closest to the doo-wop tradition was their '60 update of Besame Mucho, the 1940 work of Mexican songwriter Consuelo Velazquez (Sunny Skylar added English lyrics; the title translates to Kiss Me Much). Bandleader Jimmy Dorsey had a huge hit with it in 1944; The Ray-O-Vacs' Decca version went to #5 R&B in 1950. The Coasters' update was done February 26, 1960 at Atlantic's New York studios and spread over both sides of a single. Part 1 rides a surging Latin undertow, bass singer Will 'Dub' Jones stepping up for a rare lead turn (an entirely serious one at that). Carl Gardner, Billy Guy, and Cornel Gunter join in for the bridge, and sax master King Curtis unleashes a barrage of yakety licks near the fade. Fans must have been perplexed; Besame Mucho only made a #70 pop impression that spring.

The Coasters never regained their chart domination, though they did have '61 hits with Little Egypt (Ying-Yang) and Part II of Girls, Girls, Girls. They remained on Atco into the mid-'60s, ex-Cadillacs lead Earl Carroll joining in 1961 and Gunter exiting. A move to Columbia's Date label didn't reverse their fading fortunes. A bewildering array of Coasters groups toured the country from the '70s on. Gunter led one, Gardner another, and there were plenty more with no one recognizable at all. Carl fronted his until shortly before his June 12, 2011 death from heart disease. Gunter was shot to death in his car in Las Vegas on February 26, 1990. Diabetes killed Jones on January 16, 2000, and Guy died November 5, 2002.

Great as The Coasters' hitmaking legacy was, Gardner dreamed of a different career. "My regret is that I didn't get to sing the type of tunes that I would like to have sung, such as a lot of pop things," he said. "I would like to have done a lot of pop, like 'Stardust,' 'Mona Lisa,' 'Willow Weep For Me' things. And jazz, scatting, whatever. But it didn't sell. So a person must go where the bread is."

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