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Smokey Joe's Cafe is a musical revue showcasing 39 pop standards, including rock and roll and rhythm and blues songs written by songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The Original Broadway cast recording , Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller , won a Grammy Award in 1997.
The songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller started Spark Records and in 1955 produced "Smokey Joe's Cafe" for the Robins [2] (their sixth single with Leiber and Stoller). The record was popular enough for Atlantic Records to offer Leiber and Stoller an independent production contract to produce the Robins for Atlantic.
"Smokey Joe's Cafe" The Robins 79 10 - "I Want to Do More" Ruth Brown - 3 - 1956 "Ruby Baby" The Drifters - 10 - 1963: Dion, #2 US pop, #5 R&B 1974: Billy "Crash" Craddock, #33 US pop, #1 US country "The Chicken and the Hawk" Big Joe Turner - 7 - "Down in Mexico" The Coasters - 8 - "One Kiss Led to Another" The Coasters [2] 73 11 - 1957 "Lucky ...
Their songs from this period include "Smokey Joe's Cafe" and "Riot in Cell Block #9", both recorded by the Robins. [15] The label was later bought by Atlantic Records [when?], which hired Leiber and Stoller in an innovative deal that allowed them to produce for other labels. [3] This, in effect, made them the first independent record producers ...
The song is the title track of his album I Who Have Nothing. [15] This became the most popular version of the song in the United States, peaking at No. 14 in 1970 on the Billboard Hot 100, No. 2 on the Easy Listening chart, [16] and No. 10 in Canada. [17] This version also peaked at No. 11 in Cashbox.
Smokey Joe's Cafe: Direct from Broadway is a 2000 film of the Broadway production of the musical revue Smokey Joe's Cafe as captured live in performance on Broadway ...
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.
There have been over 80 cover versions of the song recorded, including one by British comedy actor Bernard Bresslaw and a German language version (as "Charly Brown") by Hans Blum, both in 1959. Deep River Boys with Mikkel Flagstad's orchestra recorded their spin in Oslo on August 25, 1960; it was released on the extended play En aften på ...