{"id":1084,"date":"2011-12-22T10:38:53","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T15:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2011-12-22T11:22:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T16:22:12","slug":"rebirth-of-the-cool-searchin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2011\/12\/22\/rebirth-of-the-cool-searchin\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebirth of the Cool: Searchin’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The album cover, with it’s eye-searing blue-on-red pattern of a repeated image of the group, is a lesson in bad design, but the vinyl platter inside was a masterclass on making music to appeal across divisions. This best of Coasters’ album from my mother’s collection is one of the small group of things that reside in the overlap of the Venn diagram representing me, my mother and my father. And it’s one of those rare things that can make my notoriously cranky father act a little goofy, as he dances through the house, singing along and pointing his fingers in the air. <\/p>\n

“Yakety Yak”, probably the Coasters’ best-known song, was always my least favorite due to over-saturation, having heard it on the local oldies station (WMJI, Majic 105.7… back when it still played oldies. Remember those days, Cleveland kids?) a million times and seen it depicted in several cartoons of the time. But one of my favorites on that best of album was “Searchin'”, with it’s sliding rhythm. A great song to do the Stroll to.<\/p>\n

Written by the legendary songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, the song was released on Atco Records in 1957.<\/p>\n

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