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The Coasters is a Rhythm and blues act. Their sound grew out of J.J. Jackson, Ahmet Ertegün, Leiber-Stoller, Herb Abramson and Doc Pomus. Those roots explain a lot about how The Coasters arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Drifters, Big Joe Turner, Fats Domino, Larry Williams and The Everly Brothers, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Hollies, Chubby Checker, Henri Salvador and Atco Records, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 23 connections around The Coasters, reaching back through J.J. Jackson and forward to The Hollies. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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The Coasters connections
The Coasters grew out of J.J. Jackson, Ahmet Ertegün, Leiber-Stoller and Herb Abramson, shares an orbit with The Drifters, Big Joe Turner, Fats Domino and Larry Williams, went on to shape The Hollies, Chubby Checker, Henri Salvador and Atco Records. 23 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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