The Coasters
- MatchThe Coasters
- 100%The Robins
- 83%Bill Haley
- 83%Bill Haley And His Comets
- 82%Clyde McPhatter
- 81%The Cadillacs
- 67%The Del Vikings
- 65%The Drifters
- 63%The Clovers
- 62%Carl Perkins
- 61%The Silhouettes
Biography
The illustrious career of the Coasters, the pre-eminent vocal group of the early rock n roll era, was built on a remarkable body of cleverly comic R&B songs for Atco Records fashioned by their producers, Leiber And Stoller. Under their direction, the Coasters exchanged the crooning of ballads favoured by most groups of the era for robust and full-throated R&B shouting. The group came together in Los Angeles, California, USA in October 1955 from remnants of the Robins, who... Read more