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The Drifters Album: “Definitive Drifters [2006]”
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Definitive Drifters [2006] |
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Release Date:2006-10-17
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Type:Unknown
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Genre:R&B, Oldies, Doo Wop
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Label:Warner Bros.
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Explicit Lyrics:Yes
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UPC:821838450023
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Review - :
This double-CD set isn't quite what its title says it is, unless one happens to be from England, where {$the Drifters}' chart hits extended ten years beyond their history in the United States; but it is the most wide-ranging and comprehensive look at their hits and important songs spanning the group's entire history. Every song is a keeper and all lend themselves to strong listening. {^Definitive Drifters} is never less than enjoyable, and often amazingly so. Beginning with {$Clyde McPhatter}'s 1953 hit {&"Money Honey,"} virtually all of the highlights of the group's career over the next 23 years are here in state-of-the-art sound, right up to {&"You're More Than A Number In My Little Black Book"} (a UK chart entry in 1976). The first disc carries us through the spotty post-{$McPhatter} years (scarcely a half-dozen tracks) and into the {$Ben E. King}/{$Rudy Lewis} line-up; while disc two goes into the {$Rudy Lewis}/{$Johnny Moore} era, with which they closed out their American successes in 1966; the only tracks not present from that period that arguably should have been included are {&"She Never Talked To Me That Way,"} {&"Nobody But Me,"} and {&"In The Park"}; but they're present on other compilations for the dedicated fan. In their place, this set goes past where any U.S. {$Drifters}' compilation has yet ventured; to {&"Up In The Streets of Harlem,"} and to recordings such as {&"Memories Are Made of This"} -- and to tracks beyond their {@Atlantic} contract.The group's decade on {@British RCA}, when they worked with the songwriting team of {$Roger Cook} and {$Roger Greenaway}, is represented on the second half of the second disc, beginning with the elegant {\soul} sound of {&"Like Sister and Brother,"} and {&"Kissin' In The Back Row Of The Movies."} These 11 songs embody much more of a smooth, '70's {\soul} sound, but aren't too far removed from {&"Under the Boardwalk"} or {&"I've Got Sand In My Shoes"}. The second disc is not necessarily where one would ideally want to start listening to the group, though they do no violence to the memory of their earlier incarnations; there's even an acknowledgement of past sounds in some elements of the production on these songs, and {&"Harlem Child"} from 1976 is even a pleasing throwback to their early-'60's sound. In all, the set is every bit as essential as any of the best {@Rhino}, {@Atlantic} or {\Sequel} compilations; and anyone who owns any of those will have to have it, though by the same token, it is no substitute for those other compilations. ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide
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