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The Drifters - The Very Best Of The Drifters

Track listing:
  1. There Goes My Baby 2:15
  2. (If You Cry) True Love, True Love 2:20
  3. Dance With Me 2:26
  4. This Magic Moment 2:32
  5. Save The Last Dance For Me 2:37
  6. I Count The Tears 2:10
  7. Some Kind Of Wonderful 2:21
  8. Please Stay 2:19
  9. Sweets For My Sweet 2:38
  10. When My Little Girl Is Smiling 2:36
  11. Up On The Roof 2:40
  12. On Broadway 3:06
  13. I'll Take You Home 2:45
  14. Under The Boardwalk 2:45
  15. I've Got Sand In My Shoes 2:53
  16. Saturday Night At The Movies 2:30

Notes

This mid-priced 16-song collection is the successor to the old Atlantic Records Drifters Golden Hits, covering the group's very best songs from "There Goes My Baby" in 1959 on up through 1964 in a more comprehensive way. Very pleasingly remastered and handy on its own terms, The Very Best of the Drifters also provides just a taste of what the post-1958 group had to offer, even in terms of singles. No one will dislike anything about it, but those who have heard even part of the two-CD package All-Time Greatest Hits & More will recognize The Very Best of the Drifters as nothing but a superficial sampler of what the Ben E. King/Rudy Lewis/Johnny Moore version of the group left behind. The Very Best of the Drifters is a great place to start, but the leap from this material to the rest of the Drifters' best is such a short one that, unless time or budgetary limitations dictate otherwise, it can be bypassed in favor of Atlantic's double-disc All-Time Greatest Hits & More.