Searchin'

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Caption =Searchin' by the Coasters on Atco Records
Type =B-side to "Young Blood"
Artist =The Coasters
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Released =March 1957
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Recorded =February 15, 1957
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Writer =Leiber and Stoller
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Label =Atco 6087
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Audio sample? ="Searchin'" is a song written by Leiber and Stoller specifically for The Coasters. It was released as a single on Atco Records in March 1957, and topped the Rhythm and Blues Chart for twelve weeks. It reached #3 on the national pop singles chart. [cite web
url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:0ifwxqw5ldte~T5
title= The Coasters - Charts and Awards
publisher=allmusic
accessdate=2006-11-07 ]

Although the Coasters had previously done well on the R&B charts, it was "Searchin" (along with "Young Blood" on the flip side) that sparked the group's rock and roll fame.

Singer/songwriter Paul McCartney chose Searchin' as one of his Desert Island Discs in 1982. The song had been performed by The Beatles during their audition for Decca Records on 1 January 1962. [ [http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/searchin/ The Beatles Bible: Searchin'] Retrieved on 2008-08-31.]

The song

The lyrics, written by Leiber, use vernacular phrasing. The plot revolves around the singer's determination to find his love wherever she may be, even if he must resort to detective work. The song's notable gimmick was in citing specific law-enforcement figures from popular culture, such as Sherlock Holmes, Charlie Chan, Joe Friday and Sam Spade. The baritone vocals of The Coasters' lead singer Billy Guy are raw and insistent. Driving the song is a pounding piano rhythm of two bass notes alternating on every second beat.cite book
first=Charlie
last=Gillett
year= 1996
title= The Rise of Rock and Roll
edition= (2nd Ed.)
publisher= Da Capo Press
location=New York, N.Y.
pages= p. 73
id= ISBN 0-306-80683-5] The theme of the song is searching for love:

::"Well searching"::"Yeah I'm gonna searching"

The refrain is simple variations of this phrase

::"Gonna find her, yeah ah, gonna find her"

References

External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/dsmurashev.geo/songs/Searchin.htm Lyrics]
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:0ifwxqw5ldte~T3 Hear a snippet at allmusic]