| The Drifters' Golden Hits | ||||
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| Greatest hits album by The Drifters | ||||
| Released | 1968 | |||
| Genre | R&B Doo-Wop |
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| Length | 29:47 | |||
| Label | Atlantic | |||
| Producer | Bert Berns, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller | |||
| The Drifters chronology | ||||
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| Allmusic | [1] |
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. Music critic Robert Christgau numbers it among the essentials for a basic library of albums representing the 1960s.[2] In 2003, Rolling Stone listed the album at #465 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.
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| Title | Composer | Time | Previous album release | Charts |
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| 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 Pumus, Mort Shuman | 2:23 | The Drifters[4] (1964) |
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| 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] |
'The following individuals performed with The Drifters during the relevant period of 1960 to 1966. No information is available at this time as to which members performed on which tracks.[8]
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