Disc 11. There Goes My Baby 2. Oh My Love 3. Baltimore 4. Hey Senorita - (bonus track) 5. Dance With Me 6. If You Cry True Love, True Love 7. This Magic Moment 8. Lonely Winds 9. Nobody But Me 10. Save the Last Dance For Me 11. I Count the Tears 12. Sometimes I Wonder - (bonus track) 13. Please Stay 14. Room Full of Tears - (bonus track) 15. Sweets For My Sweet 16. Some Kind of Wonderful 17. Lonliness or Happiness - (bonus track) 18. Mexican Divorce 19. Somebody New Dancing With You 20. Jackpot Disc 21. She Never Talked to Me That Way 2. When My Little Girl Is Smiling 3. Stranger on the Shore - (bonus track) 4. What to Do 5. Up on the Roof 6. Another Night With the Boys 7. I Feel Good All Over - (bonus track) 8. Let the Music Play 9. On Broadway 10. I'll Take You Home 11. If You Don't Come Back 12. Didn't It 13. One Way Love 14. He's Just a Playboy 15. Under the Boardwalk 16. I Don't Want to Go on Without You 17. I've Got Sand in My Shoes 18. Saturday Night at the Movies 19. At the Club 20. Come on Over to My Place
Label: Atlantic (USA) Release Date: 11/30/1988 Original Release Date: 1988 Recording Mode: Stereo Recording Type: Studio Distributor: WEA (Distributor)
The Drifters: Ben E. King, Charlie Thomas, Dock Green, Elsbearry Hobbs, Johnny Williams, Rudy Lewis, Tommy Evans, Johnny Moore, Eugene Pearson, Johnny Terry (vocals). Compilation producers: Bob Porter, Kim Cooke. Includes liner notes by Colin Escott. All tracks have been digitally remastered. Between 1953 and 1958, the Drifters were among the biggest acts in R&B. The group's members, however, were an unruly bunch, prone to offending club owners and disc jockeys. The group's manager (owner of the band's name) finally fired the entire group in a desperate act that should have spelled the end of the Drifters. In fact, it turned out to be the beginning of a spectacular run of hits. Rather than write off his losses, manager George Treadwell found a new group to be the Drifters, this one led by the legendary Ben E. King. The rest, as they say, is history. Over the next seven years, the Drifters hit over and over again with such classics as "There Goes My Baby," "Dance with Me," "This Magic Moment," "Up on the Roof," and "Under the Boardwalk." The group even survived the departure of King, replacing him with two equally gifted frontmen, Rudy Lewis and Johnny Moore. Fans of R&B history will no doubt find the two-disc ALL TIME GREATEST HITS an indispensable addition to their collection. Another two-disc set, LET THE BOOGIE-WOOGIE ROLL, covers the group's early years.
Q (9/93, p.104) - 4 Stars - Excellent Goldmine - Sound 5 Stars - "...the sound is great for vintage recordings..."
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