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The Drifters' Golden Hits is a 1968 compilation album by American doo wop/R&B vocal group The Drifters. The collection of the bands' later hits charted at #22 on Billboard's "Black Albums" chart and at #122 on the "Pop Albums" chart.

The album was included in Robert Christgau's "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981).[2] In 2012, Rolling Stone listed the album at #459 in its list of "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".[3] Originally released on the Atlantic label, the album has been re-released on CD by Atlantic. A Drifters' compilation by the same name was released by Intercontinental records in 1996, but it has a different track listing.

Track listing

Title Composer(s) Time Previous album release Charts
1."There Goes My Baby" Benjamin Nelson, Lover Patterson, George Treadwell 2:13 The Drifters' Greatest Hits
(1960) 		#1 Black Singles
2."(If You Cry) True Love, True Love" Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman 2:23 The Drifters[4]
(1964)
3."Dance with Me" Lewis Lebish, Jerry Leiber, Irving Nahan, Mike Stoller, Treadwell 2:26 The Drifters' Greatest Hits #2 "Black Singles"
#17 UK Singles[5]
4."This Magic Moment" Pomus, Shuman 2:30 The Drifters' Greatest Hits #4 "Black Singles"
5."Save the Last Dance for Me" Pomus, Shuman 2:30 The Drifters' Greatest Hits #1 "Black Singles"
#2 UK[5]
6."I Count the Tears" Pomus, Shuman 2:15 Save the Last Dance for Me
(1962) 		#28 UK[5]
7."Some Kind of Wonderful" Gerry Goffin, Carole King 2:38 Save the Last Dance for Me
8."Up on the Roof" Goffin, King 2:38 The Drifters #4 "Black Singles"
#5 "Pop Singles"[6]
9."On Broadway" Cynthia Weil, Barry Mann, Leiber, Stoller 3:02 The Drifters #7 "Black Singles"
#9 "Pop Singles"[6]
10."Under the Boardwalk" Arthur Resnick, Kenny Young 2:42 The Drifters #4 "Black Singles"
#4 "Pop Singles"[6]#45 UK[5]
11."I've Got Sand in My Shoes" Resnick, Young 2:49 Where the Music's Playing[7]
12."Saturday Night at the Movies" Weil, Mann 2:29 The Drifters #18 "Black Singles"
#18 "Pop Singles"[6]

Personnel

Performance

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The Drifters

  • Ben E. King – lead vocals (tracks 1, 3 – 6); backing vocals (track 2)
  • Johnny Lee Williams – lead vocals (track 2); backing vocals (tracks 3–6)
  • Rudy Lewis – lead vocals (tracks 7 – 9)
  • Johnny Moore – lead vocals (tracks 10 – 12)
  • Charlie Thomas – backing vocals (all tracks)
  • Dock Green – backing vocals (tracks 1 – 8)
  • Gene Pearson – backing vocals (tracks 9 – 12)
  • Elsbeary Hobbs – backing vocals (tracks 1 – 6)
  • Tommy Evans – backing vocals (tracks 7 – 9)
  • Johnny Terry – backing vocals (tracks 10 – 12)
  • Abdul Samad – guitar (tracks 2 – 12)
  • Reggie Kimber – guitar (track 1)

Other personnel

Production

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "A Basic Record Library: The Fifties and Sixties". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 0899190251. Retrieved March 16, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  3. ^ "500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time". Rolling Stone. 2012. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
  4. ^ (If You Cry) True Love, True Love at AllMusic
  5. ^ a b c d Roberts, David (2002). Guinness World Records British Hit Singles (15th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Ltd. ISBN 0-85112-187-X., p.189
  6. ^ a b c d The Drifters Billboard singles at AllMusic
  7. ^ Where the Music's Playing at AllMusic
  8. ^ The Later Drifters Article by Marv Goldberg. Accessed 9 July 2018.
  9. ^ The Family Tree. Official Drifters website. Accessed October 11, 2007.
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