| The Drifters' Golden Hits | |
| Type: | greatest |
| Artist: | The Drifters |
| Cover: | TheDriftersGoldenHits.jpg |
| Released: | 1968 |
| Recorded: | 1959–1966 |
| Genre: | R&B Doo-Wop |
| Length: | 29:47 |
| Label: | Atlantic |
| Producer: | Bert Berns, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller |
| Prev Title: | Where the Music's Playing |
| Prev Year: | 1966 |
| Next Title: | Their Greatest Recordings (Early Years) |
| Next Year: | 1971 |
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 album was included in Robert Christgau's "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in (1981).[1] In 2012, Rolling Stone listed the album at #459 in its list of "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".[2] 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.
| Title | Composer(s) | Time | Previous album release | Charts | |
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| 1."There Goes My Baby" | Benjamin Nelson, Lover Patterson, George Treadwell | 2:13 | The Drifters' Greatest Hits (1960) |
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| 2."(If You Cry) True Love, True Love" | Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman | 2:23 | The Drifters (1964) | ||
| 3."Dance with Me" | Lewis Lebish, Jerry Leiber, Irving Nahan, Mike Stoller, Treadwell | 2:26 | The Drifters' Greatest Hits |
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| 4."This Magic Moment" | Pomus, Shuman | 2:30 | The Drifters' Greatest Hits |
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| 5."Save the Last Dance for Me" | Pomus, Shuman | 2:30 | The Drifters' Greatest Hits |
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| 6."I Count the Tears" | Pomus, Shuman | 2:15 | Save the Last Dance for Me (1962) |
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| 7."Some Kind of Wonderful" | Gerry Goffin, Carole King | 2:38 | Save the Last Dance for Me | ||
| 8."Up on the Roof" | Goffin, King | 2:38 | The Drifters |
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| 9."On Broadway" | Cynthia Weil, Barry Mann, Leiber, Stoller | 3:02 | The Drifters |
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| 10."Under the Boardwalk" | Arthur Resnick, Kenny Young | 2:42 | The Drifters |
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| 11."I've Got Sand in My Shoes" | Resnick, Young | 2:49 | Where the Music's Playing | ||
| 12."Saturday Night at the Movies" | Weil, Mann | 2:29 | The Drifters |
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. Robert Christgau. 1981. . Ticknor & Fields. 0899190251. A Basic Record Library: The Fifties and Sixties. https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-cg70/basics.php. March 16, 2019. robertchristgau.com.