The Coasters – Rollin' With The Coasters - 26 Greatest Hits & Classic Tracks All Original Recordings...remastered

 

The Coasters were formed on October 12, 1955, when two of The Robins, a Los Angeles–based rhythm-and-blues group, joined Atlantic Records. They were dubbed The Coasters because they went from the west coast to the east. The Robins included Carl Gardner and Bobby Nunn. The original Coasters were Gardner, Nunn, Billy Guy, Leon Hughes (who was replaced by Young Jessie on a couple of their early Los Angeles recordings), and the guitarist Adolph Jacobs. Jacobs left the group in 1959.

The songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller started Spark Records and in 1955 produced "Smokey Joe's Cafe" for the Robins (their sixth single with Leiber and Stoller). The record was popular enough for Atlantic Records to offer Leiber and Stoller an independent production contract to produce the Robins for Atlantic. Only two of the Robins—Gardner and Nunn—were willing to make the move to Atlantic, recording their first songs in the same studio as the Robins had done (Master Recorders). In late 1957, Nunn and Hughes moved to New York and joined with Cornell Gunter and Will "Dub" Jones to form The Coasters. The new quartet was from then on stationed in New York, although all had Los Angeles roots.

The Coasters' association with Leiber and Stoller was an immediate success. Together they created a string of good-humored "storytelling" hits that are some of the most entertaining from the original era of rock and roll. According to Leiber and Stoller, getting the humor to come through on the records often required more recording "takes" than for a typical musical number.

1 Smokey Joe's Cafe

2 Down In Mexico

3 Turtle Dovin

4 One Kiss Led To Another

5 Brazil

6 Searchin

7 Young Blood

8 Lola

9 Idol With The Golden Head

10 (When She Wants Good Lovin') My Baby Comes To Me

11 Sweet Georgia Brown

12 What Is The Secret Of Your Success?

13 Dance!

14 Gee, Golly

15 Yakety Yak

16 Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart

17 The Shadow Knows

18 Sorry But I'm Gonna Have To Pass

19 Charlie Brown

20 Three Cool Cats

21 Along Came Jones

22 That Is Rock And Roll

23 Poison Ivy

24 I'm A Hog For You

25 Run Red Run

26 What About Us

The Coasters

Wilbert Harrison – Kansas City - Golden Classics

 

Wilbert Huntington Harrison (January 5, 1929 – October 26, 1994) was an American rhythm and blues singer, pianist, guitarist and harmonica player. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Harrison had a Billboard #1 record in 1959 with the song "Kansas City". The song was written in 1952 and was one of the first credited collaborations by the team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. Harrison recorded "Kansas City" for the Harlem-based entrepreneur Bobby Robinson, who released it on his Fury record label.

He again cracked the Billboard Top 40 when he released the self-penned "Let's Work Together (Part 1)" that went to #32 in early 1970 on the Billboard Hot 100. The 1970 hit version was released as a single on Sue Records (Sue 11) and was backed with "Let's Work Together (Part 2)". The song also was released in a 5 minute 19 second version on the Sue Records album SSLP-8801 Let's Work Together. The song was originally released by Harrison in 1962 with different lyrics as "Let's Stick Together" on Fury 1059 and Fury 1063.

"Let's Work Together" was later a hit for Canned Heat, and again as "Let's Stick Together", for Bryan Ferry. It was also recorded by country rock band the Kentucky Headhunters for the soundtrack to the movie Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man. In 2001, his recording of "Kansas City" was given a Grammy Hall of Fame Award, and has also been named as one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. Harrison was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in 2009.

Tracklist
1        Kansas City
2        Let's Work Together (Parts 1 & 2)
3        Don't Drop It
4        Stagger Lee
5        C.C. Rider
6        Cheatin' Baby
7        The Horse
8        Stand By Me
9        Since I Fell For You
10        Have Some Fun
11        My Love
12        1960
13        Blue Monday
14        Don't Wreck My Life
15        Why Did You Leave?
16        Walking By The River
17        Da-De-Ya-Da
18        Listen My Darling
19        Forgive Me
20        Pretty Little Woman
21        Poison Ivy
22        A Woman In Trouble
23        It Took A Long Time
24        Messed Around And Fell In Love
25        Goodbye Kansas City

Wilbert Harrison