The Coasters - Poison Ivy (Doo Wop 50) The Coasters - Charlie Brown. The Coasters - Get an ugly girl to marry you. The Coasters - Along Came Jones. The Coasters - Yakety Yak. The Coasters. History[edit] The songwriting team Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller had started Spark Records, and in 1955 produced "Smokey Joe's Cafe" for the Robins[1] (their 5th single with Leiber-Stoller).
The record was popular enough that Atlantic Records offered Leiber and Stoller an independent production contract to produce the Robins for the Atlantic label. Only two of the Robins—Gardner and Nunn—were willing to make the move to Atlantic, recording their first songs in the same studio as the Robins had done (Master Recorders). In late 1957 the group moved to New York and replaced Nunn and Hughes with Cornell Gunter and Will "Dub" Jones.