1968 greatest hits album by The Drifters
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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).[2] In 2012, Rolling Stone listed the album at #459 in its list of "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".[3] 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
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Composer(s)
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Time
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Previous album release
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Charts
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| 1."There Goes My Baby"
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Benjamin Nelson, Lover Patterson, George Treadwell
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2:13
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The Drifters' Greatest Hits
(1960)
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#1 Black Singles
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| 2."(If You Cry) True Love, True Love"
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Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman
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2:23
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The Drifters[4]
(1964)
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| 3."Dance with Me"
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Lewis Lebish, Jerry Leiber, Irving Nahan, Mike Stoller, Treadwell
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2:26
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The Drifters' Greatest Hits
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#2 "Black Singles"
#17 UK Singles[5]
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| 4."This Magic Moment"
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Pomus, Shuman
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2:30
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The Drifters' Greatest Hits
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#4 "Black Singles"
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| 5."Save the Last Dance for Me"
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Pomus, Shuman
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2:30
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The Drifters' Greatest Hits
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#1 "Black Singles"
#2 UK[5]
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| 6."I Count the Tears"
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Pomus, Shuman
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2:15
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Save the Last Dance for Me
(1962)
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#28 UK[5]
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| 7."Some Kind of Wonderful"
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Gerry Goffin, Carole King
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2:38
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Save the Last Dance for Me
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| 8."Up on the Roof"
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Goffin, King
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2:38
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The Drifters
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#4 "Black Singles"
#5 "Pop Singles"[6]
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| 9."On Broadway"
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Cynthia Weil, Barry Mann, Leiber, Stoller
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3:02
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The Drifters
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#7 "Black Singles"
#9 "Pop Singles"[6]
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| 10."Under the Boardwalk"
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Arthur Resnick, Kenny Young
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2:42
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The Drifters
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#4 "Black Singles"
#4 "Pop Singles"[6]#45 UK[5]
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| 11."I've Got Sand in My Shoes"
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Resnick, Young
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2:49
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Where the Music's Playing[7]
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| 12."Saturday Night at the Movies"
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Weil, Mann
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2:29
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The Drifters
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#18 "Black Singles"
#18 "Pop Singles"[6]
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Personnel
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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
Production
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