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The Very Best of The Drifters
The Drifters
The Very Best of The Drifters
Genres: Pop, R&B, Rock
 
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One of the best-known and best-loved R&B vocal groups of all-time, The Drifters were blessed with some great lead singers (Clyde McPhatter & Ben E. King), great songwriters (Leiber & Stoller, Pomus & Shuman...  more »

     
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All Artists: The Drifters
Title: The Very Best of The Drifters
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Rhino/Atlantic
Original Release Date: 4/20/1993
Release Date: 4/20/1993
Genres: Pop, R&B, Rock
Styles: Oldies, Classic R&B, Soul, Oldies & Retro
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 081227121129

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One of the best-known and best-loved R&B vocal groups of all-time, The Drifters were blessed with some great lead singers (Clyde McPhatter & Ben E. King), great songwriters (Leiber & Stoller, Pomus & Shuman) and great producers (Phil Spector, Bert Berns). Despite many personnel changes, they scored an amazing 11 top-20 records between 1959 and 1964, and are still on the oldies touring circuit today. This compilation album contains an excellent sampling of the group's pop classics and showcases their smooth harmonies. Features 16 total tracks including 'There Goes My First Love', 'Hello Happiness', 'Summer In The City', 'Like Sister And Brother', 'Like A Movie I've Seen Before' and more. RCA. 2005.

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CD Reviews

Magical.
the-disco-kid | Bay City, Babylon 7 | 12/27/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Question: How can you go wrong with a 16 track collection of the Drifters' biggest & best hits on one CD released by the finest reissue label in the business? Answer: You just can't.Since Rhino (the label in question) rarely get it wrong and some of the aforementioned 16 songs count timeless classics such as "Save the Last Dance For Me", "Up on the Roof", "On Broadway" and "Under the Boardwalk" this, quite simply put, is a CD no-one should be without. Unquestionably the finest, affordable Drifters collection out there, you can also trust Rhino (No, I don't work for them) to deliver flawlessly in the sound reproduction and packaging departments, respectively. As if all that wasn't enough, here are a few more reasons why everyone should own this CD: "There Goes My Baby", "This Magic Moment", "Some Kind of Wonderful", "Sweets For My Sweet", "Please Stay", "Saturday Nigt At the Movies", Goffin/King, Pomus/Scuman, Mann/Weil, Leiber/Stoller, Burt Bacharach and Ben E. King. Magic! 'Nuff said."
THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKIN' ABOUT!
Eric V. Moye | New York, by way of Dallas | 04/10/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)

"FINALLY, after looking through so many offerings, we find good stuff. The originals of the cuts we recall.The Drifters were so fine, back in their day. And their sound survives to this day in this disc. This has so many of the classics we remember. Such wonderful orchestrations. Such lush vocals by Ben E. King. These are done the way we remember them. Whether heard remembering up on the roof, or under the boardwalk, these are some magic moments."Some Kind of Wonderful", indeed! The place to spend the money - at last."
All mono recordings
Ronald Van Scherpenzeel | Madrid, Spain | 04/10/2006
(3 out of 5 stars)

"I was quite disappointed with this CD and Ben E King's " The Best

Of" because both are mono records. Except when I heard the songs

back then on the radio, on most LP's- released in the 60's-

all of their recordings were in full stereo. The songs are

great, no doubt, but should I have known this before I would

have chosen other "greatest hits" compilations in stereo.

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