Drifters Complete Releases 1953-62 CD

The Drifters were one of the most successful and enduring groups on the R&B and soul scene, re-inventing themselves in different line-ups over the years to enjoy a lengthy chart career. This 71-track 3-CD collection focuses on the first decade of that career, when the group initially featured Clyde McPhatter as lead singer, before he embarked on a solo career, and the group went through several incarnations before Ben E. King became the featured vocalist during the latter years of the period covered. It comprises every record they released during that time, on which The Drifters received a label credit or on which they certainly performed (as on three titles released as Clyde McPhatter solo singles) - it also features a couple of rarities done under other names by Drifters line-ups. It includes 28 US chart entries, with 23 R&B hits, five of them No. 1s, as well as 19 pop hits, and naturally features classics like "Money Honey", "Dance With Me", "Save The Last Dance For Me", "When My Little Girl Is Smiling" and "Up On The Roof". It provides a comprehensive, definitive, and thoroughly entertaining overview of the important formative years of one of R&B's great vocal groups.

1. Money Honey Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters 2. The Way I Feel Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters 3. Politica Night McPhatter Clyde and the Drifters 4. Lucille Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters 5. The Drifters Honey Love Feat. Clyde McPhatter 6. Warm Your Heart the Drifters Feat. Clyde McPhatter 7. Oh What a Dream Ruth Brown ; Her Rhythmakers 8. Please Do Not Freeze Ruth Brown ; Her Rhythmakers 9. Bip Bam the Drifters Feat. Clyde McPhatter 10. Someday You'll Want Me to Want You the Drifters Feat 11. Somebody Touched Me Ruth Brown ; Her Rhythmakers 12. White Christmas the Drifters Feat. Clyde McPhatter and Bill 13. The Bells of St. Mary's the Drifters Feat. Clyde McPhatter ( 14. What'cha Gonna Do? Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters (Atlantic 15. Gone Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters (Atlantic 1055) 1955 16. Everyone's Laughing Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters (Atlantic 17. Hot Ziggety Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters (1070 Atlantic) 18. Adorable (Atlantic 1078) 1955 19. Steamboat (Atlantic 1078) 1955 20. Old Man River Ruth Brown ; Her Rhythmakers (Atlantic 1082) 1 21. Ruby Baby (Atlantic 1089) 1956 22. Your Promised to Be Me (Atlantic 1089) 1956 23. Soldier of Fortune (1101 Atlantic) 1956 24. I Gotta Get Myself a Woman (Atlantic 1101) 1956 25. Fools Fall in Love <> 1957 26. It Was a Tear <> 1957 27. Hypnotized <> 1957 28. Drifting Away from You <> 1957 29. I Know <> 1957 30. Yodee Yake <> 1957 31. Drip Drop <> 1958 32. Moonlight Bay <> 1958 33. There Goes My Baby <> 1959 34. Oh My Love <> 1959 35. Try Try Baby Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters 36. There You Go Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters 37. Dance with Me <> 1959 38. (If You Cry) True Love, True Love <> 1959 39. Do Not Dog Me McPhatter Clyde and the Drifters 40. This Magic Moment <> 1960 41. Baltimore <> 1960 42. Let the Boogie Woogie Roll Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters 43. Lonely Winds <> 1960 44. Hey Senorita <> 1960 45. Save the Last Dance for Me <> 1960 46. Nobody But Me <> 1960 47. I Count the Tears <> 1960 48. Suddenly There's a Valley <> 1960 49. My Lady Sadie <> 1960 50. Honky Tonky <> 1960 51. Souvenirs <> 1960 52. Some Kind of Wonderful <> 1961 53. Honey Bee <> 1961 54. Please Stay <> 1961 55. No Sweet Lovin ' <> 5) 1961 56. Sweets for My Sweet <> 1961 57. Loneliness or Happiness (Atlantic 2117) 1961 58. Room Full of Tears (Atlantic 2127) 1961 59. Somebody New Dancin 'With You <> 1961 60. When My Little Girl Is Smiling <> 1962 61. Mexican Divorce <> 1962 62. Stranger on the Shore <> 1962 63. What to Do (<>) 1962 64. Sometimes I Wonder <> 1962 65. Jackpot <> 1962 66. Up on the Roof <> 1962 67. Another Night with the Boys <> 1962 68. Gee Harmony Grits (Bill Pinkney's Original Drifters) (End January 69. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town Harmony Grits (Bill Pinkney's 70. Chew Tobacco Rag Johnny Darrow (With the Original Drifters) 71. The Spider Walk Johnny Darrow (With the Original Drifters)