Track Listing

1. Lucille
2. Way I Feel
3. Money Honey
4. Gone
5. Let the Boogie Woogie Roll
6. Don't Dog Me
7. Such a Night
8. Warm Your Heart
9. Bip Bam
10. Bells of St. Mary's
11. White Christmas
12. Honey Love
13. Whatcha Gonna Do - Clyde McPhatter
14. If I Didn't Love You Like I Do
15. Someday You'll Want Me to Want You
16. There You Go
17. Try Try Baby
18. Everyone's Laughing
19. Hot Ziggity - Clyde McPhatter
20. Three Thirty Three - Clyde McPhatter

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #247444 in Music
• Released on: 2005-06-09
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Still beltingly good.
This album consists of all the songs the Drifters recorded in their original guise or line-up between 1953/4, before Uncle Sam drafted the original vocalist, Clyde McPhatter.

The helpful notes reveal a little-known secret,that Lucille was the first track recorded by the Drifters,some 3 months before the immortal Money Honey and 3 others. Not just that,NONE of the 3 other vocalists or guitarists who were in that recognised first line up featured on Lucille-all is explained in the notes, by the way.

Frankly, the Drifters were, from the start, a cut above any other US vocal group. They took on blues,doo-wop and later rock without a qualm and with few hitches. The tracks are featured in chronological order of recording, not release, so you can easily spot their development.

No other incarnation quite matched this for sheer verve or flair, and vocal technique, either. Most had a few good days,some a lot, but these lot just blended together like a damn good cocktail.

There are still a few people who can't understand how the sides here failed to rack up around 50 million sales. I'm one of those, but do me a favour and buy this now, so we can at least rectify some of those gross errors of judgement by our forbears!