The Coasters
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Obituary by Dave Laing, The Guardian, 13 June 2011
Singer and founding member of the R&B hitmakers the Coasters. ...
Obituary by David Hepworth, The Word, October 2011
The man who made "15-minute radio plays" into hits. ...
Atlantic's Tom Dowd: The Real Music Man
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, May 1968
TOM DOWD is a walking encyclopedia on the history of American pop music. In fact, Tom Dowd created twenty years of pop history since he ...
Report by John Broven, Blues Unlimited, June 1973
IT HARDLY SEEMED three years ago that Robin Gosden and myself were making the same journey from his Weybridge home to Heathrow Airport. Nothing had ...
The Coasters: Atlantic Masters (Atlantic).
Review by Charlie Gillett, New Musical Express, 17 March 1973
HOW CRUEL fate is. At the very moment that Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller are proving themselves to be perfectly tuned in to 1973, with ...
Joe Turner/LaVern Baker/The Clovers/The Coasters/The Drifters/Chuck Willis: Greatest Recordings
Review by Charlie Gillett, Rolling Stone, 3 February 1972
IN 1967, ARETHA Franklin moved from Columbia to Atlantic – in what soon proved to be one of the most important moments in the history ...
The Grim Reporter December 2002
Obituary by Phast Phreddie Patterson, Rock's Backpages, December 2002
Phast Phreddie Patterson on those gone but not forgotten ...
Lecherous, Indolent, Stupid…and Comical: The Coasters
Retrospective by Bill Millar, Record Mirror, 2 October 1971
THERE IS A passage in the Coasters' 'Sweet Georgia Brown' where the lead baritone flies off on the immortal line "she gotta walk that make ...
The Coasters: At Smokey Joe's Café
Retrospective by Bill Millar, The History of Rock, 1982
The songwriters and producers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller developed an unusually adventurous method of recording black singers, using material they often wrote themselves and ...
Eleven Years of Coastin’: The Coasters
Discography by Bill Millar, Soul Music Monthly, February 1967
Several years ago The Coasters were internationally known and much has been written about them. Whilst I do not wish to regurgitate facts that are ...
The Coasters: Whisky A Go Go, London
Live Review by Bill Millar, Soul Music Monthly, February 1967
Cornelius, Bobby and Nathaniel took the stand around 11 p.m. and those unacquainted with the team could be excused for thinking that they were about ...
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