The Definitive Drifters [2006]

Rating

Album: The Definitive Drifters [2006]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Money Honey
2)	Let the Boogie Woogie Roll
3)	Way I Feel
4)	Lucille
5)	Such a Night
6)	Honey Love
7)	Bip Bam
8)	White Chirstmas
9)	Adorable
10)	Ruby Baby
11)	Fools Fall in Love
12)	Drip Drop
13)	There Goes My Baby
14)	Dance With Me
15)	This Magic Moment
16)	If You Cry
17)	Baltimore
18)	Lonely Wind
19)	Save the Last Dance For Me
20)	I Count the Tears
21)	Some Kind of Wonderful
22)	Please Stay
23)	Sweets For My Sweet
24)	Room Full of Tears
25)	When My Little Girl Is Smiling
26)	Mexican Divorce
27)	Strangers on the Shore
28)	Up on the Roof
29)	On Broadway
30)	Let the Music Play
31)	Only in America
32)	Feel Good All Over
33)	Rat Race
34)	If You Don't Come Back
35)	I'll Take You Home
36)	Land of Make Believe
37)	Didn't It
38)	One Way Love
39)	Under the Boardwalk
40)	I Don't Want to Go On
41)	I've Got Sand in My Shoes
42)	He's Just a Playboy
43)	Saturday Night at the Movies
44)	At the Club
45)	Come on Over
46)	I'll Take You There
47)	Up in the Streets of Harlem
48)	Memories Are Made of This
49)	Like Sister & Brother
50)	Kissin in the Back Row
51)	Down on the Beach
52)	Love Games
53)	There Goes My First Love
54)	Can I Take You Home
55)	Harlem Child
56)	Hello Happiness
57)	Every Night's a Saturday Night
58)	You're More Than Just a Number

Album: The Definitive Drifters [2006]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Money Honey
2)	Let the Boogie Woogie Roll
3)	Way I Feel
4)	Lucille
5)	Such a Night
6)	Honey Love
7)	Bip Bam
8)	White Chirstmas
9)	Adorable
10)	Ruby Baby
11)	Fools Fall in Love
12)	Drip Drop
13)	There Goes My Baby
14)	Dance With Me
15)	This Magic Moment
16)	If You Cry
17)	Baltimore
18)	Lonely Wind
19)	Save the Last Dance For Me
20)	I Count the Tears
21)	Some Kind of Wonderful
22)	Please Stay
23)	Sweets For My Sweet
24)	Room Full of Tears
25)	When My Little Girl Is Smiling
26)	Mexican Divorce
27)	Strangers on the Shore
28)	Up on the Roof
29)	On Broadway
30)	Let the Music Play
31)	Only in America
32)	Feel Good All Over
33)	Rat Race
34)	If You Don't Come Back
35)	I'll Take You Home
36)	Land of Make Believe
37)	Didn't It
38)	One Way Love
39)	Under the Boardwalk
40)	I Don't Want to Go On
41)	I've Got Sand in My Shoes
42)	He's Just a Playboy
43)	Saturday Night at the Movies
44)	At the Club
45)	Come on Over
46)	I'll Take You There
47)	Up in the Streets of Harlem
48)	Memories Are Made of This
49)	Like Sister & Brother
50)	Kissin in the Back Row
51)	Down on the Beach
52)	Love Games
53)	There Goes My First Love
54)	Can I Take You Home
55)	Harlem Child
56)	Hello Happiness
57)	Every Night's a Saturday Night
58)	You're More Than Just a Number

Performer Notes

THE DEFINITIVE DRIFTERS compiles 58 tracks recorded throughout one of the groups who defined the '50s and '60s, including the smashes "Save The Last Dance For Me," "Up On The Roof," and "Under The Boardwalk."
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

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