Boomer here. The Coasters never made a bad song! The sax is one of my favorite instruments in Rock n Roll, also the organ. You keep bringing me back to my youth! Thanks Harri 😘.
When I was a young boy, my mom had a little, portable record player. She played this song a lot and another one by the Coasters called Charlie Brown. Other songs I remember her playing were Honeycomb by Jimmie Rogers, The Witch Doctor by David Seville and The Purple People Eater by Sheb Wooley. A couple of times she bought me 45’s at the store. I remember getting The Ballad of Davey Crocket by Fess Parker and Maverick by David Buttolph. Thanks for bringing these memories back for me!
When I was a kid and heard this song on am radio in the car, I would have my mom turn it up full blast and we would sing it together. Brings back wonderful memories.
Having siblings that were older than me, I started hearing "rock and roll" on the radio when I was a little kid. Mid to late 50's. This song was among them. Plenty of good acts and songs back then. And those 50's groups paved the way...
Do you know that was true with me too must’ve been before 1964 and I remember I went over to my friends house summertime on the back of the porch overhead with the boat on the stars and he had an older teenage brother who had a guitar and stuff his older teenage brother used to listen to the amber radio that came out of either Los Angeles which is about 45 miles from where I was or out of Mexico I remember and Wolfman Jack was on there crawl Wolfman Jack and he put play that hit song hit the Road Jack oh that’s the first time ever heard that song I thought what is this type of music this is amazing all because he had a teenage brother
Released in 1958, it was one of a string of hits between 1957-59 when The Coasters were one of biggest performing act of the era. Written by Jerry Lieber and Mike Stroller, who also wrote "Hounddog" and " Jailhouse Rock", this song was an instant hit and the lyrics voiced the arguments between Parents and Teenagers which are humorous. The wonderful tenor sax of King Curtis is so amazing and captivates the audience, the drums are so groovy, just a perfect song. Spent 7 weeks at Number 1 on the R&B Charts. You are making The Boomers happy tonight Harri.😊 Thank you. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
the clown princes of early rock - i treasure my coasters greatest hits cd. these guys were so great. and the movie that arnold sang it in was 'twins' with danny devito. hilarious
I had the pleasure of meeting The Coasters, back in college, at a meet-and-greet after their concert. The Lead Singer, Carl Gardner, was unable to perform, but I believe it was his son, Carl Jr who took his place. I had the opportunity to meet Veta Gardner, who was Carl Sr's wife, and she told me that they have a daughter also named Brenda Gardner. That always fascinated me to know that I had a name-twin out there!😊
Great request and reaction Harri! Hadn't heard this in a long time! I was 10 years old when this came out and we kids loved this song and another one of theirs, Charlie Brown. I talked back to my parents twice. Once to my dad and once to mom. And it didn't go well😬 And that was the last time😂
I think most of us from this era had pretty good parents. My whole family enjoyed this and repeated it to each other on occasion to ward off the temptation to "yakkity yak". Stern, but I'm glad for that now. When we had done something (I was 10 when this came out) wrong, dad would put his 23' cabin cruiser on a trailer and let us scrape barnacles and paint the bottom. We also had a TON OF FUN on that boat, so the respect was well honored. Otherwise, memorizing poetry (like "If", by Rudyard Kipling), or writing poetry or stories was a good discipline. It worked.
@@susansapp6136 Yes, I totally agree! Even when we got disciplined for something we shouldn't have done, there was no doubt that they didn't love us. So many great memories growing up in a loving household.
I still tell my grown children, "Hey! Your father' s hip. He knows what cooks!". They just roll their eyes and shake their heads. Because we're about as square and stodgy as can be, and they don't know the reference or this song! It's our own inside joke.
The Coasters had a string of hits. Charlie Brown, Poison Ivy, Down In Mexico and more. Fun fun fun group, the best singing group in Rock's first years.
A great sax player named Boots Randolph released an entirely instrumental sax version of this song called "Yakety Sax", sometime back in the mid-60s. It's basically the sax solo from Yakety Yak but extended into a full 3 minute song.
I had the pleasure to get to know Jerry Leiber (the lyric writing half of Leiber & Stoller, who wrote all The Coasters songs) Nice guy and boy did he have stories to tell lol.
The Coasters are an American R&B/rock & roll/doo-wop vocal group who had a string of hits in the late 1950s-60's. Most of their novelty songs are fun & happy & a bit kooky. "Down In Mexico", "One Kiss Led To Another", "Wake Me, Shake Me", "Searchin'", "Young Blood", "Charlie Brown", "Along Came Jones", "Poison Ivy", "Little Egypt (Ying-Yang)", "Love Potion No. 9" (Clovers had the bigger hit).
Don't forget "Smokey Joe's Cafe". (Although I seem to remember they might have still been named The Robins at the time they made it just before they changed their name to The Coasters.)
Boots Randolph (now there's a name!) did an instrumental take off on the sax solo with a few bars of other songs thrown in. It was called Yakety Sax and became Benny Hill's theme song.
i saw them live and when they walked through the audience shaking hands i was sitting on the aisle and the bass singer shook my hand! funny thing is he was a tall guy and i remember his hand was so huge complared to mine LOL
It means quite a lot to those of us that grew up working class back in the day. It's almost nostalgic. The last chore of the day was always bringing in the dog and putting out the cats for the night.
The Schwarzenegger movie was called "Twins" where he is a raised on a tropical island and hears this song and loves it, he later sings it in the shower. He is twins with Danny DeVito.
The Coasters were the Clowned Princes of Rock and Roll. every thing did was hilarious. May songs were written by Lieber and Stoller, who also wrote quite a few of Elvis' early tunes.
One of my summertime music favorites is Fingertips Part 2 by Little Stevie Wonder, recorded when he was 12 years old. He plays bongo & harmonica. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LSYFMsiNMOM.html
Saw him do Fingertips Part 1 on American Bandstand and went right out and bought the record. Then I started playing the grooves off of Part 2!! I still have that record. 😎 Edit: he played the piano and harmonica besides singing. And he was only about 13!!
Now you have to do Charlie Brown! They were pretty funny on stage too, the live version is cool. It's probably lip sync anyway, I don't really remember..
I remember this but I think it was more from the movies back then. Do recognize this one for sure. I was in grade school so what do I know, LOL...maybe the teachers said that to us ha ha.
yeah , you have to remember that these songs were for teenagers .... tv was new ...american bandstand sold . oops , i mean promoted records ... that were sold for money ... lol
