TO ALL AGENTS AND BUYERS
AND PROMOTERS, AND TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Since
1986, I have managed and promoted THE COASTERS, of which my recently
deceased husband Carl Gardner Sr., was the original lead singer and
founder. On June 12, 2011, my husband passed away leaving all
his
personal properties to me. Carl Gardner, Sr. assigned the name THE
COASTERS, to the Corporation "The Original Coasters, Inc", a
legal entity registered in the State of Florida on November 27, 2000,
which he formed to protect me and its structure in the
future. I
am now the sole owner and manager of THE COASTERS. My husband
instructed me over the years to keep the group going even after he was
gone. I INTEND TO DO JUST THAT.!
Carl
Gardner, Jr. no longer has any association, or connection, or legal
right to the name/mark of The Coasters, The Coasters featuring Carl
Gardner Jr or The Coasters name in any form whatsoever.
We
have enjoyed working with all of you for these past 50 years. We now
look forward to even more good music as we honor the memory and wishes
of CarlGardner Sr.
All
engagements will continue to be booked exclusively through Veta
Gardner's Management at (772) 380-9607, fax (772) 380-9618 or e-Mail
at, thecoasters@bellsouth.net.
The
Coasters
are a doo-wop group that started in October 1955. The original members
of the Coasters were Carl Gardner, Billy Guy, Bobby Nunn, Leon Hughes
(who was replaced by Young Jessie on a couple of their early Los
Angeles recordings), and guitarist Adolph Jacobs. Jacobs left the group
in 1959. The Coasters' were formed out of the group The Robins, a Los
Angeles based rhythm and blues group, which included Carl Gardner and
Bobby Nunn.
In
1957, the Coasters topped the R&B charts and made the pop Top
Ten
with their double-sided single “Searchin’” and “Young Blood.” Over the
next two years, the Coasters released a series of hit singles filled
with instantly adaptable slang and timeless humor. “Yakety Yak”
comically addressed the generation gap long before that term was
coined, while “Charlie Brown” was a character study of a class clown
that featured Will “Dub” Jones’ unforgettable line: “Why’s everybody
always pickin’ on me?” By the end of the decade, they’d carved out a
legacy for themselves as purveyors of riotously funny rock and roll
records with a solid R&B underpinning.
The
Coasters were also popular in England, where the Beatles, the Rolling
Stones and other British Invasion bands covered their songs.
Ironically, it was the rise of the British Invasion that spelled
commercial decline for such Fifties icons as the Coasters. Leiber and
Stoller left Atlantic in 1964 to found their own label, Red Bird, while
the Coasters continued to record for Atco through 1966. The two parties
reunited in 1967 when the Coasters signed with Columbia Records’ Date
subsidiary. The Coasters and Leiber and Stoller last worked together in
1973.
All engagements booked
exclusively through Veta Gardner's Management at (772) 380-9607, fax
(772) 380-9618 or e-Mail at, thecoasters@bellsouth.net.
