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The Coasters

THE COASTERS

YEAR

1987

INDUCTED BY

Lester Sill

CATEGORY

Performers

Witty. Engaging. Hilarious. Infectious. The Coasters are in a league of their own.

The Coasters married comedy with craftsmanship and set it to a doo wop beat, establishing them as one of the most memorable and unique groups of the Fifties.

Billy Guy

Billy Guy

Carl Gardner

Carl Gardner

Cornell Gunter

Cornell Gunter

Will Dubb Jones

Will Dubb Jones

HALL OF FAME
ESSAY

By Michael Hill

On July 15th, 1958, at a Senate hearing concerned with the music industry, a counsel for the American Guild of Authors and Composers treated our elected officials to a spin of the Coasters’ “Yakety Yak” in order to illustrate how rock and roll was responsible for “the cheapening of American music.”

“Yakety Yak,” which topped both the pop and the rhythm and blues charts, was the Coasters’ biggest hit, and a fine example of a number of things, but not of the aforementioned allegation.

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