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"Under the Boardwalk" is a pop song written by Kenny Young and Arthur Resnick and recorded by The Drifters in 1964. It charted at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on August 22, 1964. [ 2 ]
The melodic title riff was used in the Drifters version of "Under the Boardwalk", which is heard before the chorus of the song. [citation needed] In April 2010, The Drifters' "Up on the Roof" was named number 114 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. [6] It is one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock ...
Weil and Mann were based at Aldon Music, located at 1650 Broadway, New York City, and the song as written by Mann/Weil was originally recorded by the Cookies (although the Crystals' version beat them to release) and featured an upbeat lyric in which the protagonist is still on her way to Broadway and sings "I got to get there soon, or I'll just die".
“Under the Boardwalk” by The Drifters This old-school tune has been covered by countless artists including the Rolling Stones, John Mellencamp and even Bruce Willis. It's a lazy summer day all ...
"Under The Boardwalk" was a top 10 hit in the US, but the pace of the Drifters' chart career slowed after this, with "Saturday Night At The Movies" being the group's last US top 40 hit in 1964. The Drifters released several minor hits between 1964 and 1967 that made the US top 100, but didn't break through beyond that.
Another early success was "Under the Boardwalk", co-written with Kenny Young and a US no. 4 hit for The Drifters in 1964. It was covered by The Rolling Stones in 1964 and was released as a single-only in Australia, South Africa and Rhodesia. It peaked at no. 1 in the first two and at 2 in Rhodesia.
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Up on the Roof – The Best of the Drifters (compilation) 110 — 12 BPI: Gold [3] 1964 Under the Boardwalk [A] 40 — — 1965 The Good Life with the Drifters: 103 — — 1966 I'll Take You Where the Music's Playing — — — 1968 The Drifters Golden Hits (compilation) 122 33 26 1971 Their Greatest Recordings: The Early Years (compilation ...