Word: searchin
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DIED. BILLY GUY, 66, earthy baritone for the Coasters, the 1950s vocal quartet best known for novelty songs like Yakety Yak and Charlie Brown; of cardiovascular disease; in Las Vegas. Guy, above right, was lead singer on the group's 1957 hit Searchin...
...places like South Jersey's Avalon Ballroom (admission: 25 cents), kids worked up a sweet sweat jitterbugging to Bobby Day's "Rockin' Robin," Elvis' "All Shook Up," Ray Charles's "Talkin' 'Bout You," the Crickets' "That'll Be the Day," Little Richard's "Good Golly Miss Molly," the Coasters' "Searchin'," Buddy Knox's "Party Doll," Ricky Nelson's "Be Bop Baby," Fats Domino's "I'm Walkin'," the Everly Brothers' "Bye Bye Love," the Diamonds' "Little Darlin'," the Dell Vikings' "Come Go with Me" and Chuck Berry's "School Days." Then they'd slow down for some smooth churning...
...Arriving in New York, they brought Gardner and one of the other Ravens east, hired two other singers and dubbed the new assembly The Coasters. Thus was born not just a group but a genre. It was a wrinkle on the radio playlet: the two-minute rock musical comedy. "Searchin?," "Charlie Brown," "Along Came Jones," "Little Egypt" - the whole raucous, joyous bunch of pastiches bubbled over with sharp point-of-view writing and obscure movie and radio references. Scarface Jones? Bulldog Drummond? Salty Sam and Sweet Sue (in their masterpiece, "Along Came Jones")? Most kids didn?t know that...