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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.
Leiber and Stoller affected the course of modern popular music in 1957, when they wrote and produced the crossover double-sided hit by the Coasters, "Young Blood"/"Searchin'". [17] They released "Yakety Yak", which was a mainstream hit, as was the follow-up, "Charlie Brown".
Yakety Yak, Take it Back is a 1991 celebrity charity music video film aimed at encouraging recycling using a combination of live action rock stars, rappers, and animated Warner Bros. characters. [1] The film originally aired on MTV in a shortened music video form and was released in an extended version on home video.
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
"Bomb Iran" (or "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran") is the name of several parodies of the Regents' 1961 song "Barbara Ann", originally written by Fred Fassert and popularized in a "party" cover version by the Beach Boys in 1965. The most popular of the parodies was recorded by Vince Vance & the Valiants in 1980.
In 1971, the Coasters had a minor chart entry with "Love Potion No. 9", a song that Leiber and Stoller had written for the Coasters, but instead gave to the Clovers in 1959. In Britain, a 1994 Volkswagen TV advertisement used the group's "Sorry But I'm Gonna Have to Pass", which led to a minor chart placement in that country.
The Coasters had novelty songs such as "Charlie Brown" [10] and "Yakety Yak". "Yakety Yak" became a #1 single on July 21, 1958, and is the only novelty song (#346) included in the Songs of the Century. "Lucky Ladybug" by Billy and Lillie was popular in December 1958.
"Charlie Brown" is a popular Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller song that was a top-ten hit for the Coasters [2] in the spring of 1959 (released in January, coupled with "Three Cool Cats", Atco 6132). [3] It went to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, while " Venus " by Frankie Avalon was at No. 1. [ 4 ]