{"id":7594,"date":"2011-06-13T23:54:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T03:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=7594"},"modified":"2011-06-14T08:16:09","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T12:16:09","slug":"the-coasters-lead-singer-carl-gardner-dead-at-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-coasters-lead-singer-carl-gardner-dead-at-83\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coasters&#8217; Lead Singer Carl Gardner Dead at 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2S5o1AdiyiI?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p><strong>Carl Gardner<\/strong>, original lead singer of <strong>The Coasters<\/strong>, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5iFZvr2cI_wDedK03sKkZ5n5cu_hw?docId=af879db7e9824c528bd52d81035d2dc1\" target=\"_blank\">died at 83<\/a>. They just came up the other day. Well, it&#8217;s hard to argue with 83 years, having retained ownership of the band&#8217;s name through multiple lineup changes, all those excellent songs, all the excellent covers of those songs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Too bad that, for a band that was so animated on record, that there seems to be few live performances captured on film. How &#8217;bout you close your eyes and let &#8220;Shopping for Clothes&#8221; paint its own pictures.<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/06-Shopping-for-Clothes.mp3|titles=The Coasters, &#8220;Shopping for Clothes&#8221;]\n<p>For all the great covers of Coasters&#8217; songs, here&#8217;s one we can bury in a potters&#8217; field&#8230;<em>after the jump!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AyoPco75M7k?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Gardner, original lead singer of The Coasters, has died at 83. They just came up the other day. Well, it&#8217;s hard to argue with 83 years, having retained ownership of the band&#8217;s name through multiple lineup changes, all those excellent songs, all the excellent covers of those songs&#8230; Too bad that, for a band <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-coasters-lead-singer-carl-gardner-dead-at-83\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[170,377],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}