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"Love Rollercoaster", sometimes rendered as "Love Roller Coaster", [4] is a song by American funk/R&B band Ohio Players, originally featured on their 1975 album Honey. It was composed by William Beck, Leroy Bonner , Marshall Jones, Ralph Middlebrooks, Marvin Pierce, Clarence Satchell, and James Williams. [ 5 ]
Arguably one of the best decades of music, the 1970s saw the rise of disco, long shaggy hair, the continuation of the free love movement, and, of course, Rock and Roll at its height of fame ...
Their version can also be heard on The Very Best of the Coasters album. It topped Billboard's R&B chart and reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100. [2] The Coasters' version is ranked #414 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, the group's only song on the list. [3] The song was included in the musical revue Smokey Joe's Cafe.
This song was earlier recorded by fellow Coaster Billy Guy on Double-L Records in 1963. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Nunn had his own group of Coasters called "The Coasters Mark II" with members Grady Chapman , Bobby Sheen , and Billy Richards Jr. (who is nephew to Billy Richards). [ 4 ]
Searchin'" was the group's first U.S. Top 10 hit, [4] and topped the R&B chart for 13 weeks, becoming the biggest R&B single of 1957 (all were recorded in Los Angeles). " Yakety Yak " (recorded in New York), featuring King Curtis on tenor saxophone , included the famous lineup of Gardner, Guy, Jones, and Gunter, and became the act's only ...
The 1970s was an era that produced some of the greatest live albums in history. In the previous decade, artists and producers took great pains to make studio albums sound as spotless and pristine ...
The song was written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, [8] originally for rock and roll vocal group The Coasters. [10] The band recorded it in the same recording session as "Little Egypt", another song Elvis would later release. [11] [12] Neither songs did much for the band's popularity, [12] only reaching number 96 on the Billboard Hot 100. [10]
"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] It did reach No. 1 in Canada. [5]