The Drifters' Golden Hits

The Drifters' Golden Hits

Infobox Album
Name = The Drifters' Golden Hits
Type = compilation
Artist = The Drifters


Released = 1968
Recorded =
Genre = R&B
Doo-Wop
Length = 29:47
Label = Atlantic
Producer = Bert Berns, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller
Reviews = Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://wc04.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gnftxqygldse link]
Last album = "Where the Music's Playing"
(1966)
This album = "The Drifters' Golden Hits"
(1968)
Next album = "Their Greatest Recordings (Early Years)"
(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. Music critic Robert Christgau numbers it among the essentials for a basic library of albums representing the 1960s. [Christgau, Robert. (1980) "Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the '70s". Excerpted at [http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-cg70/basics.php Robert Christgau's official website] . Accessed October 11 2007.] In 2003, "Rolling Stone" listed the album at #465 in its list of "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". [ [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6627025/465_golden_hits Golden Hits] Rolling Stone Magazine online. (November 1 2003). Accessed October 11 2007.] Originally released on the Atlantic label, the album has been re-released on CD by Atlantic and Intercontinental Records.

Track listing

Personnel

Performance

"'The following individuals performed with The Drifters during the relevant period of 1960 to 1966. No information is available at this time as to which members performed on which tracks." [ [http://www.thedrifters.co.uk/familytree.html The Family Tree] . Official Drifters website. Accessed October 11 2007.]


*William Brent
*Dan Danbridge
*Billy Davis
*Tommy Evans
*George Grant
*Dock Green
*Elsbeary Hobbs
*Reggie Kimber
*Ben E. King
*Rudy Lewis
*Johnny Moore
*Gene Pearson
*James Poindexter
*Rick Sheppard
*Johnny Terry
*Charlie Thomas
*William Van Dyke
*Johnny Lee Williams

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

References


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