Season 31, Day 11 - "Yak Attack"
This season is inspired by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and today's quiz is inspired by The Coasters.
The Coasters
“Trail-blazing act who achieved wide appeal in R&B and rock & roll with comic songs like "Yakety Yak" and "Charlie Brown."”
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums: none
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs: “Young Blood”
Billboard #1 hits: “Yakety Yak” (1958)
Spotify top 5:
“Yakety Yak” (“…don’t talk back”)
“Down in Mexico”
“Charlie Brown” (“Fe Fe Fi Fi Fo Fo Fum… Why’s everybody always pickin’ on me?”)
“Poison Ivy” (“You’re gonna need an ocean of calamine lotion…”)
“Searchin’”
Miscellaneous trivia:
first group inducted into the Rock Hall
many of their hit songs were written by legendary songwriting team Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and appear in the Leiber & Stoller musical revue Smokey Joe’s Cafe