The Drifters' Golden Hits | ||||
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Greatest hits album by The Drifters | ||||
Released | 1968 | |||
Recorded | 1959–1966 | |||
Genre |
R&B Doo-Wop |
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Length | 29:47 | |||
Label | Atlantic | |||
Producer | Bert Berns, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller | |||
The Drifters chronology | ||||
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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. Music critic Robert Christgau numbers it among the essentials for a basic library of albums representing the 1960s. In 2003, Rolling Stone listed the album at #465 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.
'The following individuals performed with The Drifters from 1960 to 1966. No information is available at this time as to which members performed on which tracks.