I am here SEARCHING for the number 1 song on my birthday. 😊 My mother was the one who gave me my love for music and dancing. I remember her singing and dancing to all the latest songs like Charlie Brown and Yakety Yak. My grandaddy’s name was Charlie and we got a kick out of singing that song to him. I miss my people so much for the truest love I’ve ever known and am grateful they passed on their love of music to me, which I am passionate about to this day. 🎶💃🏾💙
Mine also, she used to sing in the kitchen while making dinner and I would sit at the table and listen. Was about four or five years old. I still remember the songs she would sing and I have copies of them. ❤❤ Thank you MOM. Her name was Helen Montague. I love ❤️ her.😊😊😊😊❤❤❤
Terrific LOUD sound. First concert I even went to was The Coasters in Long Beach Calif auditorium 1956 or 57 when I was 14 or 15. This song is STILL terrific. So glad to see recent posts, people still watching, hearing this great group.
So you must been in your 80s quite a achievement congrats this is my drinking song helps me knock back bottles even when my body giving up at 32 liver disease etc I shouldn’t drink alchol I no but aniexty to me is unbearable and got die of sumthing I guess alchol problem started at 13 and been self medicating all that time godless everyone peace and love ❤️
Grateful for Dick Clark having the insight, wherewithal and courage to exspose America to Black music. We could hea it on the radio, but many groups would have never been seen on TV if it was not for Dick! Peace.
@@ghostrider-ek8gu It was a real shame how Alan Freed was screwed over and how it destroyed him, a lot of black artists owe him a tribute for making them famous.
My first time seeing the coasters perform was in the early 60s at the Howard theater located in Washington DC. I was also a musician myself at the time as a bass guitar player. Later I had the opportunity of recording a song with the lead singer of the coasters Billy guy around 1966 in a recording studio down town DC 22nd & K st NW. Billy recorded a song title Do The Squirrel Robert Earl and that was the last time that I saw him.RIP BILLY
I have the original ATCO record. Young Blood is on the flip side. The original lead singer sang on both sides. Sha Na Na Na also does both these songs. Check their versions out on U Tube.
In Frankfort Ky in the mid-1980s, I had a friend who had heard that the Coasters were going to be at a little downtown bar auditioning for band members. Several of my friends and I went to the bar and we got an almost private performance of the Coasters playing all their hits. There were only about 10 people in the bar and we were about 15 feet from the stage. I'll be 81 this year and that night was one of the highlights of my life.
❤ in a time long ago when music WAS music and we just felt good listening to it and sharing it with our friends. In 2024 it's a stalkers song. Ha ha ha.
This is one of the greatest two sided hits of all time - the other side being Young Blood. Anyone who was a teenager in New York like was in the late 50s, can't forget it. One of my all-time favorites. When the Beatles first started out, I thought they were a pale imitation of the Coasters. I didn't see them then, but did manage to see them perform in an Oldies review at I think the Fillmore East in Manhattan around 1989.
I was going to post about Young Blood both gems, but you beat me to it Most Coasters 45;s should have been double sided hits Another was Poison Ivy, flip, I'm a Hog For you Baby The 50's nothing beats it!!!!
A buddy and I took-our wives to LasVegas to see the Coasters and what a show those men put on. I think there was 2 original members but you would never know it.
It was such a happy time...an illegal war being waged by 2 criminals who worked in the oval office...3 culture shifting assasinations...a race war, protests in the streets... thousands of people suffering from PTSD from WW2 and Korean war....so many fantastic memories...
whispering thunder no matter what decade is mentioned someone will always find something to darken it, I’m just talking about the music. This is hardly the forum to air political views. I understand where you’re coming from but there must be a better place air them .
@@TheMargarita1948 yes the white man did call black men’s boy the same as today but don’t answer to what you’re called you answer to your name all part of history
The Beatles were big fans of the Coasters, live at the Beeb features "Searchin" and "Young Blood" & "Three Cool Cats" if you listen to One after 909 the harmonies are like the Coasters. The Stones did Poison Ivy !!
I was just this minute listening to an interview with Paul McCartney, from the BBC's Desert Island Discs in which he mentioned this was a popular request for them at the Cavern. He picked it (the Coasters version) as one of the records he would take to a desert island with him. :-)
It's the original group alright. My favorite song and favorite group back then. Leiber and Stoller we need you now! The stuff they call music today isn't. (Except the Eagles, of course.) Stephanie Connor
I wished that Dick Clark, would have introduced the group! The Coasters were an amazing singing group! I wish they were still singing! I love this song; though it was before my time! 👍😘👍
I loved all the coasters song especially this one after searching I know he did bring her in he was determined to find her still sounds good to me in 2020 back to you coasters
This is the second group, the Original Coasters from 1955-58 were Bobby Nunn, Leon Hughes, Carl Gardner, and Billy Guy. Nunn, Hughes and Gardner all came from the Robins. The got Will "Dub" Jones from the Jacks/Cadets. And Cornell Gunter came from the Flairs/Ermines.
+Terry McManus You read the book too huh. Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller were amazing. So many people were either influenced or covered their Songs from The Beatles, Beach Boys, Elvis, Donna Summer whose songs have been revered by everyone from Smokey Robinson, Ray Charles and Isaac Hayes. Jerry's Son Oliver was in a Group called Ta Mara & The Seen who had a Hit Record called "Everybody Dance".
Folks, this is the original group with Carl Gardner, Will (Dub)Jones,, Cornell Gunther and Billy Guy performing Searchin on American Bandstand back in the late 1950's!
