Talk:The Coasters
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If the Coasters had a hit on "Love Potion No. 9" in 1971, The Clovers had it as a hit in 1959. It could pass for a Coasters song (it's a Leiber-Stoller song, for one thing), but the Clovers also had lots of "story" songs, including "One Mint Julep". "Love Potion No. 9" was the last Clovers hit. Ortolan88 05:25 Jan 2, 2003 (UTC)
[edit] Doo Wop!(Interrobang)?
The Coasters aren't a doo wop group. They are a rhythm and blues quartet, like the Clovers and Drifters. Doo wop doesn't encompass every singing group from the 50s, only some of them. Can anyone defend this characterization? Ortolan88 04:17, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Rhythym and Blues encompassed groups like The Five Keys, The Ink Spots, and The Ravens. R&B songs are slow, and don't have a bass lead-in (this was the thing that originally separated doo wop from R&B). Early doo wop was mostly slow, similar to R&B, and the up-tempo songs, like those done by The Coasters, didn't come around until the mid 1950s. Typically, then, the uptempo songs from this era are considered doo wop. JeremyMcCracken 16:24, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Citations & References
See Wikipedia:Footnotes for an explanation of how to generate footnotes using the <ref(erences/)> tags Nhl4hamilton (talk) 04:26, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
