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"Under the Boardwalk" is a pop song written by Kenny Young and Arthur Resnick and recorded by The Drifters in 1964. It charted at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on August 22, 1964. [ 2 ]
"Under the Boardwalk" b/w "I Don't Want to Go On Without You" (from I'll Take You Where the Music's Playing) A: Johnny Moore B: Charlie Thomas 4 — — 45 BPI: Silver [10] Under the Boardwalk "I've Got Sand in My Shoes" b/w "He's Just a Playboy" Johnny Moore 33 21 — — I'll Take You Where the Music's Playing "Saturday Night at the Movies"
In 1994, Resnick, together with Mark Barkan and Robert Harari, co-wrote and co-produced an album of horror-themed songs, Scaree Tales, [8] which was also performed on Broadway. [9] Resnick, and his co-writer on "Under The Boardwalk" and "Sand In My Shoes," Kenny Young, were nominated for induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2012. [10]
"Under The Boardwalk" was a top 10 hit in the US, but the pace of the Drifters' chart career slowed after this, with "Saturday Night At The Movies" being the group's last US top 40 hit in 1964. The Drifters released several minor hits between 1964 and 1967 that made the US top 100, but didn't break through beyond that.
The track that was chosen to promote both the movie and the album was not "Wind Beneath My Wings", but the song heard in the movie's opening scene and also the opening track on the album: Midler's cover of The Drifters' 1960s classic "Under the Boardwalk". That song alluded to the title of the movie and the place where the movie's main ...
Under the Boardwalk" is a song recorded by the Drifters in 1964. Under the Boardwalk may also refer to: Under the Boardwalk (1989 film), an American teen romance/drama film; Under the Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story, a 2010 documentary; Under the Boardwalk (2023 film), an American animated film
Originally intended to be the A-side to "Under the Boardwalk", the song was recorded in May 1964 under the direction of songwriter and producer Bert Berns. The night before the session, The Drifters' lead singer, Rudy Lewis, died of a heroin overdose. Longtime Drifters tenor Charlie Thomas took over the vocal. [2]
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.