Posted on 08/22/2011 2:08:22 PM PDT by Borges
Coasters were the best there ever were.
RIP
Do you know about this too?
http://www.myspace.com/wreckingcrewfilm
Seems like you might enjoy...
cheers!
Always liked Bad Company’s version of “Young Blood”
Dion “Ruby Baby”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRjviO8negQ
“Down Home Girl”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp2q3yK8Lrs
Down in Miami Springs, at a place called the Flick...where J Buffet was the opening act to warm the crowd up...Dion played Abraham Martin and John. It was the first time...I remember, that I heard an actual voice sing. He wouldn’t do Purple Haze after Jimmy died...
Dion singing that song taught me
I’d be doing something else for life...
There were no cell phones to record my life then. I wish I could share it with you all.
I grew up on their stuff without knowing even who they were. Yakity-yak, Charlie Brown, Along Came Jones, Working in a Coal Mine, Poison Ivy, Youngblood, and my favorite Down in Mexico.
Their version of If I Had a Hammer is amazing and haunting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUlV2ki1w1k
You are right - they are the best.
Rock trivia: The Coasters and The Robins were the same group, The Robins transitioning into The Coasters.
I have heard that version a number of times and think that it is much, much superior to the way that Elvis treated it.
Interesting, if arguable, that so many of the Leiber-Stoller compositions had to wait for the second, third, etc, version to get a definitive recording. Examples: “Down Home Girl”, “One Kiss Led to Another”.
RIP Jerry and thanks for all of the great music you gave us. You done good!
You somehow managed to miss their best song, which was Run Red, Run.
Did not know about that song. Dad or my aunt must have never had a A or B side of that one. I’ll have to dig around on Youtube.
RIP.
This song might be part of the same story.
LOL! I think you might be right! Thanks!
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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