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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 ...
John Mellencamp released the track as the B-side of his single "R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.". In Australia, the single effectively became a double-A side when the B-side "Under the Boardwalk" received significant airplay and both tracks were listed together on the singles chart, reaching number 18. [14]
The Drifters' Golden Hits is a 1968 compilation album by American doo wop/R&B vocal group The Drifters. The collection of the bands' later hits charted at #22 on Billboard's "Black Albums" chart and at #122 on the "Pop Albums" chart.
The Drifters are an American pop and R&B/soul vocal group. They were originally formed as a backing group for Clyde McPhatter, formerly the lead tenor of Billy Ward and his Dominoes in 1953. The second group of Drifters, formed in 1959 and led by Ben E. King, were originally an up-and-coming group named The Five Crowns. After 1965, members ...
The Drifters Girl is a jukebox musical with a book by Ed Curtis based on an idea by Tina Treadwell. It is based on the story of the American vocal group The Drifters and their manager from 1967 until 2001, Faye Treadwell. The musical features The Drifters' music.
In 1963, "Sweets for My Sweet" was released by English Merseybeat band the Searchers as their debut single, reaching No. 1 on the UK Single Chart for two weeks that August. [4] [5] According to Bill Harry, Dusty Springfield considered the Searchers' recording of the song to be "the best record to come out of Liverpool" as of July 1963. [6]
Cliff is the 1959 debut album of British singer Cliff Richard and his band the Drifters (later known as the Shadows). [1] [2]The album is a live-in-the-studio recording of Richard's and the Shadows' early rock and roll in front of an invited audience of several hundred fans.
The Drifters, The Swallows, Bill Pinkney, The Flyers, The Sprites Musical artist Robert Raymond Hendricks (February 22, 1938 – March 25, 2022) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] was an American R&B singer who charted two hits in the late 1950s.