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| | The Very Best of the Coasters | | | Music Artist : | | The Coasters | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Rhino Records | | Release Date : | | 2008-03-25 | | Store Price : | | $11.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $11.98 | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Riot in Cell Block #9 - The Robins
2. Smokey Joe's Cafe - The Robins
3. Down in Mexico
4. Searchin'
5. Idol With the Golden Head
6. Young Blood
7. Yakety Yak
8. Charlie Brown
9. Along Came Jones
10. That Is Rock & Roll
11. I'm a Hog for You Baby
12. Poison Ivy
13. What About Us
14. Run Red Run
15. Little Egypt
16. Shoppin' for Clothes
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Great Collection
Submitted on: 2009-06-16 |
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| I have always been a big fan of "The Coasters" and this collection is certainly the best I've ever seen. The audio is outstanding and all the wonderfull and wacky tunes bring back great memories. |
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The very best of The Coasters
Submitted on: 2009-05-03 |
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This CD of the Coasters is great!! Love those "Charlie Brown"
and "Poison Ivy" songs.
G.L Bullock |
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The very best of the Coasters
Submitted on: 2008-09-03 |
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| My husband has played this CD everyday since he received it. Sometimes twice a day. It is excellent. We recommend it to anyone who enjoys the music of that era. |
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the coasters
Submitted on: 2008-07-06 |
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| Excellent cd if you're looking for those "golden oldies" ! Great music for going to "classic car shows. Love it !!!! |
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 Don't Judge Yesterday's Music By Today's Standards
Submitted on: 2007-08-26 |
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I have to think that the reviewer who gave this CD such a poor critique was no more than 30 to 35 years of age at the time, otherwise he wouldn't have attempted to rate music that permeated the air waves 45 years ago based on today's standards. It would be like taking someone back in time from 2007 to 1958 and have them play Grunge or Punk - he or she would be driven out of town on a rail.
The Coasters - like The Cadillacs - preferred the lighter side of things back then - and back then their songs played well. Today they would not be considered as "standards" in the same sense as, say, In The Still Of The Night by The Five Satins, but for those of us who like nostalgia, or who collect hits from that era, this is a nice little package from Rhino which digitally re-masters an original Atlantic (Atco) album, complete with four pages of liner notes written by the well-kmnown author Randy Poe (Skydog: The Duane Allman Story, Music Publishing: A Song Writer's Guid, and Squeeze My lemn: A Collection Of Classic Blues Lyrics are just a few of his books) offering snippets of information on each selection. The insert also contains a discography of the contents.
Among hard-to-find Coasters' hits in this compilation are I'm A Hog For You, the flipside of Poison Ivy in 1959 and a # 38 Billboard Pop Hot 100 on its own, and What About Us? - the flip of Run Red Run in 1960 and a # 17 R&B/#47 Hot 100 on its own. I only wish they had included one extra track and added Wait A Minute [# 37 Hot 100 in 1961] which remains elusive.
For those of you who know The Coasters and want just a few of their hit singles this is a good buy. If you don't go back that far and are merely curious as to the evolution of the lighter side of R&R, this is as good a place to start as any. "Fee fee fi fi, fo fo fum .. I smell smoke in the auditorium ... Charlie Brown ..." Enjoy. |
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