The Drifters' Golden Hits is a 1968 compilation album by American doo-wop/R&B vocal group The Drifters.
The album was included in Robert Christgau's "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981). In 2012, Rolling Stone listed the album at #459 in its list of "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". 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.
Chart performance The collection of the bands' later hits peaked at No. 22 on Billboard's Hot R&B LP's chart, and also reached No. 122 on the Billboard Top LPs chart, during an eight-week run on it.
Track listing Title Composer(s) Time Previous album release Charts1."There Goes My Baby"Benjamin Nelson, Lover Patterson, George Treadwell2:13The Drifters' Greatest Hits(1960)#1 Black Singles2."(If You Cry) True Love, True Love"Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman2:23The Drifters(1964)3."Dance with Me"Lewis Lebish, Jerry Leiber, Irving Nahan, Mike Stoller, Treadwell2:26The Drifters' Greatest Hits#2 "Black Singles"#17 UK Singles, p.1894."This Magic Moment"Pomus, Shuman2:30The Drifters' Greatest Hits#4 "Black Singles"5."Save the Last Dance for Me"Pomus, Shuman2:30The Drifters' Greatest Hits#1 "Black Singles"#2 UK6."I Count the Tears"Pomus, Shuman2:15Save the Last Dance for Me(1962)#28 UK7."Some Kind of Wonderful"Gerry Goffin, Carole King2:38Save the Last Dance for Me8."Up on the Roof"Goffin, King2:38The Drifters#4 "Black Singles"#5 "Pop Singles"9."On Broadway"Cynthia Weil, Barry Mann, Leiber, Stoller3:02The Drifters#7 "Black Singles"#9 "Pop Singles"10."Under the Boardwalk"Arthur Resnick, Kenny Young2:42The Drifters#4 "Black Singles"#4 "Pop Singles"#45 UK11."I've Got Sand in My Shoes"Resnick, Young2:49I'll Take You Where the Music's Playing12."Saturday Night at the Movies"Weil, Mann2:29The Drifters#18 "Black Singles"#18 "Pop Singles"
Personnel
Performance The Later Drifters Article by Marv Goldberg. Accessed 9 July 2018.The Family Tree. Official Drifters website. Accessed October 11, 2007.
The Drifters Ben E. King – lead vocals (tracks 1, 3 – 6); backing vocals (track 2) Johnny Lee Williams – lead vocals (track 2); backing vocals (tracks 3–6) Rudy Lewis – lead vocals (tracks 7 – 9) Johnny Moore – lead vocals (tracks 10 – 12) Charlie Thomas – backing vocals (all tracks) Dock Green – backing vocals (tracks 1 – 8) Gene Pearson – backing vocals (tracks 9 – 12) Elsbeary Hobbs – backing vocals (tracks 1 – 6) Tommy Evans – backing vocals (tracks 7 – 9) Johnny Terry – backing vocals (tracks 10 – 12) Abdul Samad – guitar (tracks 2 – 12) Reggie Kimber – guitar (track 1)
Other personnel Doris Troy – additional backing vocals (tracks 5 – 7) Dee Dee Warwick – additional backing vocals (tracks 5 – 7) Dionne Warwick – additional backing vocals (tracks 5 – 7) Cissy Houston – additional backing vocals (tracks 5 – 7)
Production Stan Applebaum – arranger Bert Berns – producer Charlie Brown – liner notes Ray Ellis – arranger Loring Eutemey – design Jerry Leiber – producer Jonny Meadow – research Zal Schreiber – mastering Garry Sherman – arranger Mike Stoller – producer Teacho Wiltshire – arranger
Charts
Chart (1968) Peakposition US Billboard Top LPs122 US Billboard Hot R&B LPs33 References