Track Listing

1. Save The Last Dance For Me
2. There Goes My First Love
3. Kissin' In The Back Row Of The Movies
4. Down On The Beach Tonight
5. Like Sister And Brother
6. Can I Take You Home Little Girl
7. You're More Than A Number In My Little Red Book
8. Every Night's A Saturday Night With You
9. Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So Good)
10. Love Games
11. Harlem Child
12. Summer In The City
13. Songs We Used To Sing
14. Something Tells Me (Something's Gonna Happen Tonight)
15. If Only I Could Start Again
16. Another Lonely Weekend
17. Midnight Cowboy
18. Always Something There To Remind Me
19. Don't Cry On The Weekend
20. Hello Happiness

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5285 in Music
• Released on: 1997-01-11
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Their seventies recordings
There were several phases to the careers of the Drifters, but this compilation focuses on their seventies music. In Britain, they were much more successful in the singles charts than they had been in the sixties, when many of their best songs were hits via British cover versions. Their only major sixties hit in Britain was Save the last dance for me, here represented via a re-recording. A re-issue of At the club / Saturday night at the movie made the UK top three in 1972 and was followed into the top ten by a re-issue of Come on over to my place, though none of those songs is reprised here. In America, it was altogether different - they had plenty of major hits there up to 1965, after which they disappeared almost totally from the singles charts.

Following the success of those re-issues, the Drifters secured a British recording contract on the Bell label. Some of the best British songwriters of the time (Tony Macauley, Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway) provided the Drifters with songs stylistically reminiscent of their sixties hits, updated just enough to suit the customers of the seventies.

Kissing in the back row of the movies, Down on the beach, tonight, Like sister and brother, Can I take you home little girl, There goes my first love, Hello happiness, Every night's a Saturday night with you, Love games and You're more than a number in my little red book all made the British charts, most of them reaching the top ten. This compilation also includes several covers including Sweet Caroline (Neil Diamond), Something tells me (Cilla Black), Always something there to remind me (Sandie Shaw), Summer in the city (Lovin' Spoonful).

This is an excellent collection of the Drifters' seventies recordings.