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The song is a "playlet," a word Stoller used for the glimpses into teenage life that characterized the songs he and Lieber wrote and produced. [4] The lyrics describe the listing of household chores to a kid, presumably a teenager, the teenager's response ("yakety yak") and the parents' retort ("don't talk back") — an experience very familiar to a middle-class teenager of the day.
MC Skat Kat was created by Michael Patterson and performed by the Wild Pair duo of Bruce DeShazer and Marv Gunn on "Opposites Attract". MC Skat Kat's rap was written and performed by Derrick Stevens, although Romany Malco, who did the majority of the writing for the M.C. Skat Kat & the Stray Mob album, is often mistakenly credited for being the voice of the rap on Opposites Attract, a story ...
The Coasters recorded many songs that were released as two-song record singles and several appeared in the charts, including Billboard's Hot 100 and Hot R&B singles charts [8] [9] and the UK Singles Chart. [10]
For the Coasters alone, they wrote 24 songs that appeared in the US charts. In 1955, Leiber and Stoller produced a recording of their song "Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots" with a white vocal group, the Cheers. [15] Soon after, the song was recorded by Édith Piaf in a French translation titled, "L'Homme à la Moto". The European ...
Carl Edward Gardner (April 29, 1928 – June 12, 2011) was an American singer, best known as the foremost member and founder of The Coasters.Known for the 1958 song "Yakety Yak", which spent a week as number one on the Hot 100 pop list, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
(2.) A musical number in which Plucky and Fowlmouth sing about Plucky's addiction to video games; set to music from The Nutcracker. (3.) A "music video" set to the song Yakety Yak. (4.) Plucky crashes a celebrity party, and brings Shirley the Loon with him.
President-elect Trump shared an image of first lady Jill Biden when trying to sell his perfume Sunday. “Here are my new Trump Perfumes & Colognes! I call them Fight, Fight, Fight, because they ...
Yakety Yak" is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and originally performed by the Coasters in 1958. Yakety Yak (or similar phrases) may also refer to: Yakety Yak, Take It Back, a 1991 music video using a recycling-themed version of the song; Yakkety Yak, the name of version 16.10 of the Ubuntu operating system