| The Very Best of The Drifters | 
 enlarge | List Price: $11.98
Buy New: $4.06
You Save: $7.92 (66%)
Buy New/Used from $4.06
Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 30 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1253
Category: Music
Publisher: Rhino/Atlantic
Studio: Rhino/Atlantic
Manufacturer: Rhino/Atlantic
Label: Rhino/Atlantic
Language: German (Unknown)
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 71211
UPC: 081227121129
EAN: 0081227121129
ASIN: B0000032ZQ
Release Date: April 20, 1993
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
|
| Tracks:
| • | There Goes My Baby | | • | (If You Cry) True Love, True Love | | • | Dance With Me | | • | This Magic Moment | | • | Save the Last Dance for Me | | • | I Count the Tears | | • | Some Kind of Wonderful | | • | Please Stay [*] | | • | Sweets for My Sweet [*] | | • | When My Little Girl Is Smiling [*] | | • | Up on the Roof | | • | On Broadway | | • | I'll Take You Home [*] | | • | Under the Boardwalk | | • | I've Got Sand in My Shoes | | • | Saturday Night at the Movies |
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Album Description
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.
Amazon.com
A by-the-numbers, chronological collection that hits all the commercial highlights of the Drifters' Golden Era (1959-64)--after the frequently dazzling early records with Clyde McPhatter, but featuring the consummate vocal stylings of Ben E. King, Rudy Lewis, Johnny Moore, and more on 16 memorable hits. Among the pinnacles: "There Goes My Baby," the record whose unsettling, soaring strings launched the soul era; the romantic perfection of "Save the Last Dance for Me," "This Magic Moment," and the contagiously catchy, Latin-bouncing "Sweets for My Sweet;" and the eternally evocative cityscapes of "Up on the Roof," "Under the Boardwalk," and the stark, gritty "On Broadway." Sleepers include the heartrending Bacharach ballad "Please Stay," "I Count the Tears" (ripped off later on the Grass Roots hit "Let's Live for Today"), and "When My Little Girl Is Smiling," on which strings foreshadow the folk-rock movement. An ideal starter kit on these seminal uptown soul pioneers; those seeking further revelations (and there are plenty of them) are referred to Rockin' & Driftin': The Drifters Box. --Ken Barnes
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 25 more reviews...
 The Real Thing May 23, 2009
Finally,I got an album with the original Drifter hits."The Drifters On Broadway" had a very new lead singer,and "The Best of Ben E. King"had only 10 songs half of which I never heard of.
Drifters April 24, 2009
There are 2 different CDs titled the "The Very Best of the Drifters". This one (Atlantic label)has all of the great songs. The "Camden" label has only one hit. Make sure you look for the Drifters wearing blue jackets not the red plaid ones.
This was a great CD with 16 hits we know the Drifters by.
Rick
Deja Who? March 22, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
So I climb into my own car, see, in the shotgun seat on account of my teenage son is driving and his mom is in the back seat, and he's got his iPod jacked to the stereo system and like, here's Ben E. King and the second Drifters singing Under the Boardwalk, only my wife who went to high school in Beverly Hills pipes up "I thought it was On the Boardwalk" and I go "Wow! You really were a white girl! Hey, dude, where'd you come up with this?" and my son goes "from your own collection, doh!"
I'm not proposing to compare R&B and doo-wop to the kind of music I usually listen to these days. Small doses of nostalgia go a long way for me. But Ben E. King was a Singer! His break from baritone to falsetto was as smooth and effortless as any baroque countertenor, and he had a gentle expressiveness that set him apart from the '60s pack. Best of all, he could sing in tune! Perfectly in tune! My 'old man' hated that teenage music and used to wig out if he found his (my!) car radio tuned to a R&B station. His taste ranged from Hank Snow to Perry Como to Frank Sinatra, none of whom could sing in tune to save their thirsty souls.
You want to understand the 'liberalism' in America that has finally allowed a man of color to become President? It started with 'crossover,' with the opportunity for Black musicians to win the ears of White teenagers.
The Very Best of the Drifters February 23, 2009
This is the Origional Drifters album. With the origional lead singers on each of their songs.
 A Correction to ALL of the other reviews...... January 17, 2009
Lest ANYONE be misled, the item pictured above is NOT the one in Amazon's review, or the one reviewed by the others on this page. The product pictured is indeed "The Very Best of the Drifters", but it is their Bell UK recordings from 1973-76, not the Atlantic classics, and certainly not a Rhino compendium of yore. These recordings, issued by BMG UK in 2003, showed the group to be on something like their 20th line-up, but with plenty of steam left in them, going on to score nine British Top Thirty hits, with six going Top Ten, in the next three years. Caveat emptor, be sure of what you're buying before you buy it. If you're tired of the same old Atlantic hits thrown at you ad nauseum, then you really should check this out, but not from here. I got this disc new for $6.99 in a local grocery store, a FAR cry from what Amazon is charging. If you want the Atlantic hits, look elsewhere.
|
|
|
