The Drifters' Golden Hits
# The Drifters' Golden Hits

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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 Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981). In 2012, Rolling Stone listed the album at #459 in its list of "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". 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.

## Track listing

| Title | Composer(s) | Time | Previous album release | Charts |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1."There Goes My Baby" | Benjamin Nelson, Lover Patterson, George Treadwell | 2:13 | The Drifters' Greatest Hits (1960) | #1 Black Singles |
| 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 | #2 "Black Singles" #17 UK Singles |
| 4."This Magic Moment" | Pomus, Shuman | 2:30 | The Drifters' Greatest Hits | #4 "Black Singles" |
| 5."Save the Last Dance for Me" | Pomus, Shuman | 2:30 | The Drifters' Greatest Hits | #1 "Black Singles" #2 UK |
| 6."I Count the Tears" | Pomus, Shuman | 2:15 | Save the Last Dance for Me (1962) | #28 UK |
| 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 | #4 "Black Singles" #5 "Pop Singles" |
| 9."On Broadway" | Cynthia Weil, Barry Mann, Leiber, Stoller | 3:02 | The Drifters | #7 "Black Singles" #9 "Pop Singles" |
| 10."Under the Boardwalk" | Arthur Resnick, Kenny Young | 2:42 | The Drifters | #4 "Black Singles" #4 "Pop Singles"#45 UK |
| 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 | #18 "Black Singles" #18 "Pop Singles" |

## Personnel

### Performance

**The Drifters**

* Ben E. King – lead vocals (tracks 1, 3 – 6); backing vocals (track 2)
* Johnny Lee Williams – lead vocals (track 2); backing vocals (tracks 3–6)
* Rudy Lewis – lead vocals (tracks 7 – 9)
* Johnny Moore – lead vocals (tracks 10 – 12)
* Charlie Thomas – backing vocals (all tracks)
* Dock Green – backing vocals (tracks 1 – 8)
* Gene Pearson – backing vocals (tracks 9 – 12)
* Elsbeary Hobbs – backing vocals (tracks 1 – 6)
* Tommy Evans – backing vocals (tracks 7 – 9)
* Johnny Terry – backing vocals (tracks 10 – 12)
* Abdul Samad – guitar (tracks 2 – 12)
* Reggie Kimber – guitar (track 1)

**Other personnel**

* Doris Troy – additional backing vocals (tracks 5 – 7)
* Dee Dee Warwick – additional backing vocals (tracks 5 – 7)
* Dionne Warwick – additional backing vocals (tracks 5 – 7)
* Cissy Houston – additional backing vocals (tracks 5 – 7)

### 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
