Down in Mexico - The Coasters
They started out on the West Coast as The Robins. When Atlantic signed Leiber and Stoller as a production team, the group split into two – half became The Coasters and moved to New York while The Robins continued on the West Coast where unfortunately their recording career diminished. Although they had many personnel changes the voices of Carl Gardner’s (lead) and Bobby Nunn (bass) was continuous. Shopping For Clothes was out Mod theme song at that time in the sixties – we were always shopping for suits. Many Coasters’ songs were played on the Manchester soul club scene. In the 1960s several counterfeit Coasters groups appeared (vary much like the multiple Drifters). One or two are still going today and they all appear to be growing younger! One of their 45’s we missed on our sixties scene that has become a Northern Soul rarity is
Coasters - Crazy Baby
It is 81 on Kev Roberts Top 500. In his book he tells us that the DJ who found it covered up the name of the artist so that nobody else could find a copy: thus he was the only DJ with it: to build an exclusive reputation.