Yakety Yak: The Coasters Collection [Import, Original recording remastered]

Coasters | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 19, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Rhino/Wea UK
• ASIN: B000AR9YMS
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #60,687 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Riot In Cell Block No. 9

2. Young Blood

3. Yakety Yak

4. Down In Mexico

5. Searchin

6. Idol With The Golden Head

7. Charlie Brown

8. That Is Rock And Roll

9. I'm A Hog For You Baby

10. Along Came Jones

11. Sorry But I'm Gonna Have To Pass

12. Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart

13. Shadow Knows

14. Three Cool Cats

15. Little Egypt (Ying Yang)

16. Shoppin' For Clothes

17. Wrap It Up

18. Lola

19. Whadaya Want

20. Lovely Dovey

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great rock'n'roll with a comic touch, April 3, 2009

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yakety Yak: The Coasters Collection (Audio CD)

The Coasters were formed following the dissolution of an earlier group, the Robins, two of that group being among its founder members. Many line-up changes occurred in the following years. Their record producers were the highly successful Leiber and Stoller, who also wrote most of their songs. While many of their contemporaries were either recording ballads or pursuing a more mainstream rock'n'roll sound, the Coasters stuck closely to their R+B roots.

The Coasters began their chart career in America in 1956 with Down in Mexico, but they really hit big with a double-sided single containing Searchin' (an American number one hit and a minor UK hit) and Young blood (an American number two hit). Next came Yakety yak, another an American number one hit, which just missed the UK top ten. It may now be their most recognizable song, not least because an instrumental cover by Boots Randolph was used as the theme tune for the Benny Hill show. The follow-up single, Charlie Brown, was an American number two hit and became the biggest UK hit for the Coasters, peaking at six. Poison ivy, an American number one hit and UK top twenty hit, completed the run of really big hits for the Coasters. They continued charting in America into the sixties, but there were no more UK hits until Sorry but I'm gonna have to pass (first released in 1958) became a minor UK hit following its use in a TV commercial.

All the hits I've mentioned are included among the 20 tracks in this budget collection, together with Along came Jones (later covered by Ray Stevens), which therefore includes all of the tracks that really matter.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent compilation of Coasters songs!, December 20, 2009

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This review is from: Yakety Yak: The Coasters Collection (Audio CD)

The best compilation of the Coasters songs, very good! All the songs I wanted on one CD! Love "Down in Mexico", first heard it on the movie soundtrack "DeathProof". Hear "Little Egypt" & many others on XM all the time.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reviewing the Coasters greatest hits., August 9, 2008

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peter - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yakety Yak: The Coasters Collection (Audio CD)

This is a well thought out compilation of original Coasters hits, good value here, you can buy with confidence.