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The Drifters

  • The Drifters' Golden Hits [Atlantic, 1968]  
  • Golden Hits [Atlantic, 1969]  
  • Their Greatest Recordings: The Early Years [Atco, 1971]  
  • The Very Best of the Drifters [Rhino, 1995] A

Consumer Guide Reviews:

The Drifters' Golden Hits [Atlantic, 1968]
[CG70s: A Basic Record Library]  

Golden Hits [Atlantic, 1969]
[CG80: Rock Library: Before 1980]  

Their Greatest Recordings: The Early Years [Atco, 1971]
[CG70s: A Basic Record Library; CG80: Rock Library: Before 1980]  

The Very Best of the Drifters [Rhino, 1995]
Contract singers hired out to contract producers, the post-1958 Drifters were pop product as perfect as Abba or the Archies: where some cite Ben E. King's "There Goes My Baby" as primal soul music, I say Leiber & Stoller's "There Goes My Baby" was the first true rock and roll record with violins on it. Here the product is reduced to 16 songs in 41 minutes--roofs and boardwalks, last dances and numbered tears, this magic moment and some kind of wonderful. Deprived of such professionalism, beach music would be immeasurably poorer. A

Further Notes:

Everything Rocks and Nothing Ever Dies [1990s]

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