Yakety-yak is slang that means to talk without stopping, and about unimportant things. The Coasters are great. I love "Charlie Brown" and "Smokey Joe's Café".
Yakety-yak. Something like how “Blah-blah-blah” is used. Listen to the song in The Music Man called "Pick-a-Little, Talk-a-Little". They end up like chickens, clucking around. Very funny. - BG
My dad was a greaser in the 50’s, with a single hardworking mom. He used to listen to this to remember his mom, whom would yell at him all the time, “Yea Yakety yakety this!!!! Take out the damn garbage or no Yakety Yak” … it was one of his fave memories of his mom 🖤
My mom said she danced to this when she was young. Many years later I got her to dance with me to this at my daughter's wedding. She outdanced me by a country mile.
The Coasters songs were written by Jerry Lieber & Mike Stoller. Two Jewish boys from Los Angeles who wrote the best Black rock n roll ever! The doo-wop groups of that era were usually 4 or 5 guys. The lead was the tenor and the singer with the deep voice was the bass singer. They honed their craft on the street corners of Detroit or Chicago.
I grew up listening to the 50"s and 60's music. My father and Uncle collected 50"s and 60's 45's records, (I believe they had about 10,000) between the two of them. This group was good for songs like this one. Others to listen to are: Poison Ivy, Along came Jones, Searchin, and Little Egypt. Gotta listen to them!
I would listen to Bobby's "Mack The Knife" but immediately follow it up with Ella Fitzgerald's version where she forgets the lyrics and just keeps singing and improves.
The Coasters were known as "The Clown Princes of Rock" and were the first group inducted into the Hall of Fame. You should definitely check out more of their music.
" Charlie Brown " is a must. If by chance, could you give Wolfman Jack a listen. Trying to find something a short piece of his to listen to can be a challenge. I partially credit him with my love of the Coasters and other Doo Wop music. The other partial credit is Sha Na Na. Also someone else you should get to know. They had their own tv show in the '70s.
The greatest 50's stuff was coming out of Chicago's blues scene. Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, Etta James and so many more who's songs went on to be covered by all the rock greats.
Yes! Great song! And I would add "Get a Job" by the Silhouettes, which is a doo-wop classic. Those two songs, along with "Yakety Yak," really capture the hassles of being a 1950's teen and they do it with light-hearted energy.
For Female Friday how about Dusty Springfield “You Don’t have to say you love me”, Petula Clark “Downtown” or Cilla Black “You’re my World”? Another good one “Georgy Girl” by the Seekers.
I like this one, but I love their song "Poison Ivy". Any idea of when we'll get some novelty/comedic songs? I suggested several and will add some of them, again. "You Look Marvelous" - *Billy Crystal* (pay close attention to the celebrities in the video) "Rapping Rodney" - *Rodney Dangerfield* "Big Cockroach" - *Kip Adotta* "Wet Dream" - *Kip Adotta* (it's not a dirty song) "The Streak" - *Ray Stevens* "King Tut" - *Steve Martin* *Edited to add* (someone reminded me of Weird Al, though I sent a list of his songs a while back) - "Trapped In the Drive-thru" - *Weird Al* (it's pretty long, but also funny, at least to me)
All great choices.. So many great Ray Stevens songs to choose from.. and Steve Martin is a serious Banjo master with Jazz, and Bluegrass music.. caught him at the New Orleans Jazz heritage festival... He is a man of many talents
I like that you’re listening to even older stuff, and also Amber you looking amazing. You should listen to Jackie Wilson “Higher and Higher” from the 60’s, and also The Commodores “Easy” from the 70’s.
So many FUN songs from that era. We loved listening to them as kids back in the 70's - our parents' old records from the 50's & 60's. - Itsy-bitsy Teeny-weeny Yellow Polka-dot Bikini - The Purple People Eater - Beep Beep - It's My Party / Judy's Turn To Cry - Leader of The Pack ... so many more 🙃 Edit: - Little Red Riding Hood - They're Coming To Take Me Away, HaHa - Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah (A Letter From Camp)
Dances were called "sock hops." You couldn't wear shoes on the gym floor so therefore you took your shoes off and danced in your sock feet. This was one of the songs we danced to 💃
Aww. I love it that you're checking out the Fifties music. I looked it up and it hit the airwaves in 1958. I was born in '59. That song was so popular though and I remember hearing it on the radio at times. But, the funny thing, it also made me think about you as parents working with & guiding your kids. It's been 64+ years since this song hit the airwaves and yet basic parenting hasn't changed much. Ha! Ya think? 😊👭💁♀️👼🙋♀️😅
I remember as if it were yesterday the time I told my Mom that I was "bored". I was ten. She spent the next two hours supervising me doing the dishes, folding laundry, vacuuming the front room and changing the sheets on all the beds. There was *no such thing* as "yakkity-yak" in our house. Nuh uh.... no way.
It never occurred to me to talk back, I loved eating and living. As they say, There was only two ways kids died, Natural causes and talking back to their parents.
My parents were '50s kids (my Dad a greaser), and they raised me on this stuff (and classic country which my dad was also into) as a young child. I very much appreciate that my introduction to rock and roll and its influences and derivatives went right back to the beginnings. It gave me a greater appreciation for what came after. How many AC/DC fans back in the day, for example, knew that Angus' playing (and stage moves) were hugely influenced by Chuck Berry? How many even knew who Chuck Berry was? Well, if your parents passed on their music to you, you knew. Sure, as a teen you tend to reject your parent's music, among other things, but we come back to it later with greater appreciation. I wish more parents would share their music with their kids. And yes, my Mom often sang that refrain to me when I gave her trouble. 🙂
The Coaster are such a great band with a sense of humor. Listen to their other big hits, "Charlie Brown", "Along Came Jones", "Little Egypt", and "Poison Ivy". Also listen to The Clovers doing "Love Potion #9" which The Coasters later did, which a song in this kind of genre.
Great song from the age before me! It's like mama telling you what's what! They also had Poison Ivy and Charlie Brown as hits. You might like "Beep Beep" by the Playmates as a humor song.
Love that your daughter is “hambone queen”. When I was coming up my dad watched Hee Haw every Saturday and I would try my best to keep up with the guy doing the hambone. You just triggered an amazing memory for me. Have a happy and prosperous New Year! ❤️ the channel.
I had a big smile on my face with Yakety Yak. I was eleven years old when this came out and I always enjoyed listening to and singing along with this song. From my pre-teen perspective... mom is giving all the instructions and the kid talks back by saying "Yakety Yak." Dad, sitting in his easy chair reading the paper hears the kid and corrects him by saying "Don't talk back." Dance of the time would have been swing. Dances like the Twist and Locomotion didn't come in until later. When I became a teenager, my hair style was a curl in the front and a duck-tail in the back, also know as a DA (Duck's Ass). Speaking about hair styles, Amber I love the way you've been wearing your hair.
Most of these artists in the 50's & 60's were influenced by Louis Jordan, considered by many to be the father of rock & roll. "Saturday Night Fish Fry", "Open The Door Richard", "Caldonia Boogie" & "Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens" are a few of his biggest hits. His songs were always funny, and I remember my dad always singing bits & pieces his tunes around the house when I was kid!
Seeing the title just made me smile. I’d love to see a reaction to “Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini” as a great novelty song. It was one of my mom’s 45’s that I loved growing up.
The cold war comedy "One, Two, Three" with James Cagney made good use of that song. The commies used it as a torture device! Made in 1961, directed by Billy Wilder.
The Coasters, The Drifters, and a few others that had similar names and great popular songs. You'd be surprised at what you might find on RU-vid for live performances. Hell, I grew up in the 70's and I saw one of them playing (cant remember which) at the PX of the Military base in San Diego. They were older, but they still had it.
The Drifters and the Coasters were two of the premier groups of the time that had crossover appeal for both Black and White audiences. The Drifters were much more serious, the Coasters were much more comedic. Drifter songs not to miss, Save the Last Dance for Me, Under the Boardwalk, This Magic Moment, and Up On the Roof. Coasters great songs, Smokey Joe's Cafe, Poison Ivy, Little Egypt, Searchin, Down In Mexico, Along Came Jones, Charlie Brown, Young Blood, and That is Rock and Roll.
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", "Yakety Yak", "Charlie Brown", "Along Came Jones", "Poison Ivy", "Little Egypt (Ying-Yang)", "Love Potion No. 9" (Clovers had the bigger hit).
While watching some of your old reactions I saw Elton John. Since you love piano so much, check out Elton's Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding they play together you'll love it. For a good blues song try Gary Moore, Still Got the Blues
1974 my dad bought us kids our first Wildcat record player along with a few lp's to play. Ray Charles and the Coasters planted the seeds of my taste in music! We sang this to eachother all the time as kids. Love watching you get to know them. Down in Mexico and Poison Ivy are classics.
Love me some Coasters! Youngblood, Little Egypt, Poison Ivy, Searchin', Along Came Jones, Down Home Girl, and my fav, Soul Pad (which I think was a more funky 70's song - I could be remembering wrong).
The evolution of R&R allows you to see the growth of how the music changed. This is 50's and R&R was new. So this song inspired the next and the next inspired the next. Once you understand how something began you can appreciate where it went.
Oh memories. Saturday mornings… mom would put her chore list up, get to work on what she needed to do, and put me and my brother to work while blasting this song LOUD!
The Coasters ROCK!! They have a bunch of awesome tunes there are just so many of them you gotta get their greatest hits and listen to all of it because they are that awesome
For Female Friday: Ronnie Spector - ‘Be My Baby’ Bette Midler - ‘From a Distance’ Toni Braxton - ‘Un-Break My Heart’ Whitney Houston - I Have Nothing’ Roberta Flack - ‘First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’ Other notables: Christopher Cross - ‘Sailing,’ Kayne Brown - ‘Worship You,’ Kool and The Gang - ‘Celebration,’ Dan Fogelberg - ‘Same Old Lang Syne’ Luther Vandross - ‘Dance With My Father’
The tenor sax solo was by the late great King Curtis, the top Atlantic records sax session man. He's the one Buddy Holly asked to come over to record "Reminiscin'" and then gave him the writing credit as thanks. This record is not to be confused with 'Yakety Sax' by that other great sax session man (not for Atlantic, though), Boots Randolph.
1959 - Bobby Darin on Ed Sullivan Show, singing a live version of Mack The Knife!! One of the best songs of the decade & that live performance is the best version I've ever heard!! Bobby Darin started out as a singer in the rock-n-roll genre & had some big hits, but Mack The Knife marked his shift into the crooner side of things. This is a song you both will LOVE!! Listen & enjoy. You'll be so glad you did
There's a long history of black novelty records, going way back to the 20s. I've heard Chuck Berry say he really wanted to be a novelty record star, but got stuck inventing rock and roll instead. His "My Ding-A-Ling" record was one of his personal favorite songs he ever wrote. A lot of the old novelty records were pretty racy, with lots of double entendre. I've got an old collection of 40s novelties with songs like "The Honey Dripper" and "If It Don't Fit Don't Force It" and "Big Ten Inch Record". And a lot of those really old blues records are obviously about sex. The Coasters were a clean, radio-friendly version of those old black novelty singers. Kind of a cross between black novelty songs, doo-wop, and classic R&B. After the Coasters, comedy songs changed. I think the Coasters were maybe the last in a long tradition of those old-style black comic singers.
I'm so glad you liked the Coasters! They're one of my favorite groups from the fifties, because they sing are universal to teenagers all over the world.
On your next 80’s reaction think about Lisa Lisa and the cult jame she was the precursor to Jo Lo a beautiful Puerto Rican woman who in braced her curves with a unique voice. I wonder if I can take home, All cried out, Head to toe are few of their 80’s hits
Whenever I hear this song now I think of the late great comedian John Candy and the movie The Great Outdoors with him and Dan Akroyd. All I can do is picture his happy smile and the laughs I had in this movie!
They did look good! Dressed well, groomed, professional, authentic, talented, no auto-tune. They preformed and entertained and were good at it. Those days were the Golden Age of Rock and Roll.
Little Egypt by them has always been my favorite.My mom loved it and played it for me and my brothers.I kept the tradition up,lol,with all my kids when they were little and I have 5 ranging from 13-36. All of them loved the ending :) Keep On Rockin'
This song has a special place in my heart. When I was younger (probably like 5 or 6) we did a "jazz" routine to this song for our dance recital. And we wore a super chic red dress with feathers at the bottoms and then matching red feathers in our hair. And I have never felt like I ever killed in an outfit the same way I did in that one lol.
The first Coasters I ever heard on the radio was ALONG CAME JONES when I was just five years old. I loved it so much my parents bought me the single 45. I think you two would love it as much as young me did and still do.
That's King Curtis on Tenor Sax with the Coasters. King Curtis was a Soul Jazz saxophone player. He played with Coasters, Buddy Holly, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, and others, as well as his own group.
