CLASSIC COASTERS 78 YAKETY YAK / ZING WENT THE STRINGS UK LONDON HLE 8665 E/E+
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A GREAT COMEDY ROCK AND ROLL CLASSIC 78 FROM THE COASTERS
YAKETY YAK
b/w ZING WENT THE STRINGS OF MY HEART
The Coasters comic vocals plus the writing and production of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller resulted in a string of wisecracking hits in the late fifties. they were among the first black singing groups to cross over and to be considered rock and roll.
In Oakland, California in 1945 two brothers William and Ray Richards , with a friend, Ty Terell formed a trio. A year later they traveled to Los Angeles where they hoped to make it into the music business, Their main influence was secular music, rather then the rhythm and blues artists who had direct religious backgrounds. Originally called the A Sharp Trio they had trouble finding work. They soon began hanging out at the Barrelhouse Club, a Watts hangout for aspiring young R&B artists, owned by Johnny Otis. Otis took an interest in them and set a date for a recording session. Bobby Nunn on bass was added and the group became the Four Bluebirds.. The Richard brothers sang baritone and Terell lead tenor. At the session they cut "My Baby Done Told Me' b/w "Courtroom Blues" on Excelsior. The groups name changed once again to the Robins.
The Robins recorded for Aladdin and it's subsidiary, Score, in 1949. By this time they were a featured attraction with the Johnny Otis Show. In 1949 and 1950 they often backed Little Esther or Mel Walker on sessions produced by Otis for Savoy Records.
The group began in Los Angeles in the late forties and were known as the Robins. In 1950 they had a number one hit with "Double Crossing Blues" featuring Little Esther Phillips. In 1953 they met Leiber and Stoller when they moved from Crown Records to RCA. In 1954 Robins followed Leiber and Stoller to Spark Records
Richard Berry was borrowed from the Flairs to sing bass lead on the Robins first release for Spark Records "Riot In Cell Block #9". While not a national hit it did sell 100,000 copies in Los Angeles and the Bay area.
The Robins became the labels most successful act with "Riot In Cell Block No. 9," "Framed," "The Hatchet Man" and "Smokey Jo's Cafe". In 1955 Atlantic bought the Robin's catalogue and contracted Leiber and Stoller as independent producers for other Atlantic acts.
At that time the group split with Carl Gardner and Bobby Nunn staying with Leiber and Stoller and Billy Gunn, a comedic singer with unlimited vocal inflections and Leon Hughes were added. The new group was named the Coasters. Their first single "Down In Mexico" went top ten R&B in 1956. The next single "One Kiss Led To Another" went nowhere. Next "Searchin" b\w "Young Blood" went #1 pop and #3 in 1957. The record quickly sold two million copies as deejays first played one side then the other. . However, there were people that didn't care for their clowning about sexual subjects.
The next three singles barely sold. It wasn't the material or the delivery but, rather that they got caught in a backlash against rock and roll. Leiber and Stoller and the group moved to New York in 1957. Cornell Gunter, who had sung for the Flairs, replaced Jesse Obe. Bobby Nunn quit and was replaced by Will "Dub" Jones formerly with the Cadet Jacks in 1958 The next record to chart was "Yakety Yak" (#1, 1958) "Yakety Yak" was aimed at teenagers, talking to them about problems they actually experienced.
Followed by "Charlie Brown" (#2, 1959), was written to appeal specifically to teenagers. The Coasters and Leiber and Stoller now had a proven formula. "Along Came Jones" (#9, 1959) dealt with America's preoccupation with Westerns and "Poison Ivy" (#7, 1959) preached the lesson of "look but, don't touch." . By the end of the Fifties the Coasters were America's most popular black rock and roll group.
YAKETY YAK ENTERED THE UK CHARTS ON 15 AUG 1958 REACHING No 12, AND STAYING IN THE CHARTS FOR 8 WEEKS.
Take out the papers and the trash Or you don't get no spendin' cash If you don't scrub that kitchen floor You ain't gonna rock and roll no more Yakety yak (don't talk back)
Just finish cleanin' up your room Let's see that dust fly with that broom Get all that garbage out of sight Or you don't go out Friday night Yakety yak (don't talk back)
You just put on your coat and hat And walk yourself to the laundromat And when you finish doin' that Bring in the dog and put out the cat Yakety yak (don't talk back)
Don't you give me no dirty looks Your father's hip; he knows what cooks Just tell your hoodlum friend outside You ain't got time to take a ride Yakety yak (don't talk back)
Yakety yak, yakety yak Yakety yak, yakety yak Yakety yak, yakety yak Yakety yak, yakety yak
UK LONDON HLE 8665 10" 78RPM SHELLAC
CONDITION - E+ NICE!
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