Lecherous, Indolent, Stupid…and Comical: The Coasters
Bill Millar, Record Mirror, 2 October 1971
THERE IS A passage in the Coasters' 'Sweet Georgia Brown' where the lead baritone flies off on the immortal line "she gotta walk that make a hound-dog talk".
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