The Drifters had originally formed as the backing group for Clyde McPhatter, who had been the lead singer of Billy Ward and the Dominoes in the early fifties, when that group had had their biggest success.
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It’s been more than a year since we last properly checked in with the Drifters, one of the great R&B vocal groups of all time, so I’ll quickly bring you up to speed - if you want to hear the full story so far, episode seventeen, on “Money Honey”, gives you all the details. But particularly when it comes to songs that aren’t familiar, I may have ended up using a rerecording rather than the original. I’ve used multiple sources for the recordings I’m excerpting here, and in most cases I’m pretty sure that the tracks I’m excerpting are the original versions. Indeed, there have been so many of these compilations, and people putting together hits compilations, even for major labels, have been so sloppy, that I can’t find a single compilation of the Drifters’ recordings that doesn’t have one or two dodgy remakes on replacing the originals. One problem with that is that there have been lots of compilations put out under the Drifters name, featuring rerecorded versions of their hits, often involving nobody who was on the original record. As we’ll see in this episode, there have been many, many, lineups of the Drifters over the years, with many different people involved. Why not join them?Ī quick note about this one, before I start. This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon.
Hound Dog: The Leiber and Stoller Autobiography by Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, and David Ritz tells Leiber and Stoller’s side of the story well.Īnd Bill Millar’s book on the Drifters, while it is more a history of 50s vocal group music generally using them as a focus than a biography of the group, contains some interesting material. Lonely Avenue, a biography of Doc Pomus by Alex Halberstadt, helped me with the information on Pomus. My main resource in putting this episode together was Marv Goldberg’s website, and his excellent articles on both the early- and late-period Drifters, Bill Pinkney’s later Original Drifters, the Five Crowns, and Ben E.
The episode on the early career of the Drifters is episode seventeen. There are plenty available, none of them as good as they should be. I’m not going to recommend a compilation this week, for reasons I mention in the episode itself. Check out Tilt’s irregular podcasts at and Īs always, I’ve created a Mixcloud streaming playlist with full versions of all the songs in the episode. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on “Rebel Rouser” by Duane Eddy Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.
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Download file | Play in new window | Recorded on March 23, 2020Įpisode seventy-five of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “There Goes My Baby” by the Drifters, and how a fake record label, a band sacked for drunkenness, and a kettledrum player who couldn’t play led to a genre-defining hit.
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