Talk:The Coasters
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[edit] Untitled
If the Coasters had a hit on "Love Potion No. 9" in 1971, The Clovers had it as a hit in 1959. It could pass for a Coasters song (it's a Leiber-Stoller song, for one thing), but the Clovers also had lots of "story" songs, including "One Mint Julep". "Love Potion No. 9" was the last Clovers hit. Ortolan88 05:25 Jan 2, 2003 (UTC)
"Love Potion No. 9" was written for the Coasters. Leiber & Stoller gave it to the Clovers instead at the behest of their old friend, Clovers manager and United Artists label head Lou Krefetz. Pstoller (talk) 02:09, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Doo Wop!(Interrobang)?
The Coasters aren't a doo wop group. They are a rhythm and blues quartet, like the Clovers and Drifters. Doo wop doesn't encompass every singing group from the 50s, only some of them. Can anyone defend this characterization? Ortolan88 04:17, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Rhythym and Blues encompassed groups like The Five Keys, The Ink Spots, and The Ravens. R&B songs are slow, and don't have a bass lead-in (this was the thing that originally separated doo wop from R&B). Early doo wop was mostly slow, similar to R&B, and the up-tempo songs, like those done by The Coasters, didn't come around until the mid 1950s. Typically, then, the uptempo songs from this era are considered doo wop. JeremyMcCracken 16:24, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
Neither Carl Gardner nor Leiber & Stoller considered the Coasters a doo-wop group. Rhythm and Blues encompasses many styles from ballads to uptempo numbers; it's probably the best label for the Coasters' music. One might also call the Coasters a rock & roll vocal group, although they were not conceived as such. Doo-wop was characterized by a lead singer carrying the lyrics and melody over a backing group that would sing nonsense syllables; hence the name of the genre. With a couple of rare early exceptions, this was not what the Coasters did. A counter-argument would be that the Coasters are in the Doo-Wopp Hall of Fame, although it was Leon Hughes' group, not Carl Gardner's, that appeared at the induction ceremony. Pstoller (talk) 02:04, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
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