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Poison Ivy
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Featured in Episode
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Artist(s)
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Top Chart Position (Hot 100)
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7 (October 12, 1959, one week)
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Year Released
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1959
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Album
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The Coasters
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Writer(s)
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Jerry Lieber & Mike Stoller
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RIAA Certification
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NONE
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Sequence song appears
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Noogie in strip club
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"Mr. Lee"
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"Poison Ivy" is a song by The Coasters, featured on the album The Coasters in 1959 and released as a single in August of that year. It appeared in the Miami Vice episode "Golden Triangle (Part II)".
Notes[]
- Artists that have covered "Poison Ivy" include the Dave Clark Five, The Hollies and The Rolling Stones.
- The girl named Ivy in this song is considered a player with men, which goes along with the scene it's featured in well.
- This is the first song originating in the 1950s that was used in Vice.
Performers[]
- Carl Gardner - lead
- Billy Guy - baritone
- Cornell Gunter - tenor
- Will "Dub" Jones - bass
- Albert "Sonny" Forriest - guitar