The Drifters were one of the most successful and enduring groups on the R&B and soul scene, re-inventing themselves in different line-ups over the years to enjoy a lengthy chart career. This 71-track 3-CD collection focuses on the first decade of that career, when the group initially featured Clyde McPhatter as lead singer, before he embarked on a solo career, and the group went through several incarnations before Ben E. King became the featured vocalist during the latter years of the period covered. It comprises every record they released during that time, on which The Drifters received a label credit or on which they certainly performed (as on three titles released as Clyde McPhatter solo singles) - it also features a couple of rarities done under other names by Drifters line-ups. It includes 28 US chart entries, with 23 R&B hits, five of them No. 1s, as well as 19 pop hits, and naturally features classics like "Money Honey", "Dance With Me", "Save The Last Dance For Me", "When My Little Girl Is Smiling" and "Up On The Roof". It provides a comprehensive, definitive, and thoroughly entertaining overview of the important formative years of one of R&B's great vocal groups.
6 Warm Your Heart the Drifters Feat. Clyde McPhatter
7 Oh What a Dream Ruth Brown & Her Rhythmakers
8 Please Do Not Freeze Ruth Brown & Her Rhythmakers
9 Bip Bam the Drifters Feat. Clyde McPhatter
10 Someday You'll Want Me to Want You the Drifters Feat
11 Somebody Touched Me Ruth Brown & Her Rhythmakers
12 White Christmas the Drifters Feat. Clyde McPhatter and Bill
13 The Bells of St. Mary's the Drifters Feat. Clyde McPhatter (
14 What'cha Gonna Do? Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters (Atlantic
15 Gone Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters (Atlantic 1055) 1955
16 Everyone's Laughing Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters (Atlantic
17 Hot Ziggety Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters (1070 Atlantic)
18 Adorable (Atlantic 1078) 1955
19 Steamboat (Atlantic 1078) 1955
20 Old Man River Ruth Brown & Her Rhythmakers (Atlantic 1082) 1
21 Ruby Baby (Atlantic 1089) 1956
22 Your Promised to Be Me (Atlantic 1089) 1956
23 Soldier of Fortune (1101 Atlantic) 1956
- Disc 2 -
1 I Gotta Get Myself a Woman (Atlantic 1101) 1956
2 Fools Fall in Love <> 1957
3 It Was a Tear <> 1957
4 Hypnotized <> 1957
5 Drifting Away from You <> 1957
6 I Know <> 1957
7 Yodee Yake <> 1957
8 Drip Drop <> 1958
9 Moonlight Bay <> 1958
10 There Goes My Baby <> 1959
11 Oh My Love <> 1959
12 Try Try Baby Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters
13 There You Go Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters
14 Dance with Me <> 1959
15 (If You Cry) True Love, True Love <> 1959
16 Do Not Dog Me McPhatter Clyde and the Drifters
17 This Magic Moment <> 1960
18 Baltimore <> 1960
19 Let the Boogie Woogie Roll Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters
20 Lonely Winds <> 1960
21 Hey Senorita <> 1960
22 Save the Last Dance for Me <> 1960
23 Nobody But Me <> 1960
24 I Count the Tears <> 1960
- Disc 3 -
1 Suddenly There's a Valley <> 1960
2 My Lady Sadie <> 1960
3 Honky Tonky <> 1960
4 Souvenirs <> 1960
5 Some Kind of Wonderful <> 1961
6 Honey Bee <> 1961
7 Please Stay <> 1961
8 No Sweet Lovin ' <> 5) 1961
9 Sweets for My Sweet <> 1961
10 Loneliness or Happiness (Atlantic 2117) 1961
11 Room Full of Tears (Atlantic 2127) 1961
12 Somebody New Dancin 'With You <> 1961
13 When My Little Girl Is Smiling <> 1962
14 Mexican Divorce <> 1962
15 Stranger on the Shore <> 1962
16 What to Do (<>) 1962
17 Sometimes I Wonder <> 1962
18 Jackpot <> 1962
19 Up on the Roof <> 1962
20 Another Night with the Boys <> 1962
21 Gee Harmony Grits (Bill Pinkney's Original Drifters) (End January
22 Santa Claus Is Coming to Town Harmony Grits (Bill Pinkney's
23 Chew Tobacco Rag Johnny Darrow (With the Original Drifters)
24 The Spider Walk Johnny Darrow (With the Original Drifters)
The Drifters were one of the most successful and enduring groups on the R&B and soul scene, re-inventing themselves in different line-ups over the years to enjoy a lengthy chart career. This 71-track 3-CD collection focuses on the first decade of that career, when the group initially featured Clyde McPhatter as lead singer, before he embarked on a solo career, and the group went through several incarnations before Ben E. King became the featured vocalist during the latter years of the period covered. It comprises every record they released during that time, on which The Drifters received a label credit or on which they certainly performed (as on three titles released as Clyde McPhatter solo singles) - it also features a couple of rarities done under other names by Drifters line-ups. It includes 28 US chart entries, with 23 R&B hits, five of them No. 1s, as well as 19 pop hits, and naturally features classics like "Money Honey", "Dance With Me", "Save The Last Dance For Me", "When My Little Girl Is Smiling" and "Up On The Roof". It provides a comprehensive, definitive, and thoroughly entertaining overview of the important formative years of one of R&B's great vocal groups.
