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Up on the Roof – The Best of the Drifters (compilation) 110 — 12 BPI: Gold [3] 1964 Under the Boardwalk [A] 40 — — 1965 The Good Life with the Drifters: 103 — — 1966 I'll Take You Where the Music's Playing — — — 1968 The Drifters Golden Hits (compilation) 122 33 26 1971 Their Greatest Recordings: The Early Years (compilation ...
"I Count the Tears" is a song written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman and performed by The Drifters, with Ben E. King singing lead. [2] In 1960, the track reached No. 6 on the U.S. R&B chart, No. 17 on the U.S. pop chart, and No. 28 on the UK Singles Chart. [3] It was featured on their 1962 album, Save the Last Dance for Me. [4]
The Drifters 16 4 - 1968: Jay & the Americans, #6 pop 1976: Richard Roundtree, #90 R&B 1989: Rick James, #74 R&B "Lonely Winds" The Drifters 54 9 - "A Mess of Blues" Elvis Presley: 32 - 2 1983: Status Quo, #15 UK "Save the Last Dance for Me" The Drifters 1 1 2 1974: The DeFranco Family, #18 pop 1979: The Drifters, #69 UK (reissue)
The Drifters are an American pop and R&B/soul vocal group. They were originally formed as a backing group for Clyde McPhatter, formerly the lead tenor of Billy Ward and his Dominoes in 1953. The second group of Drifters, formed in 1959 and led by Ben E. King, were originally an up-and-coming group named The Five Crowns. After 1965, members ...
Treadwell recruited the Five Crowns [2] to become the new Drifters. The new Drifters' first release was the 1959 hit " There Goes My Baby ". Charlie was lead singer on two of the group's top 40 hits, " Sweets for My Sweet " and " When My Little Girl Is Smiling ".
In 2012, Rolling Stone listed the album at #459 in its list of "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". [3] Originally released on the Atlantic label, the album has been re-released on CD by Atlantic. A Drifters' compilation by the same name was released by Intercontinental records in 1996, but it has a different track listing.
Price then joined The Drifters and remained with them through the first half of the 1980s, while also doing occasional studio singing with groups like Heatwave on their album, Current. In the late 1980s, Price signed with Motown and recorded his self-titled debut album, Louis Price , which was released in 1991.
Clyde McPhatter rerecorded the song for Mercury Records; it is on the 1962 album Lover Please and on his 1963 Mercury release, Greatest Hits. Little Richard covered the song for his 1964 album Little Richard Is Back (And There's a Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On!) for Vee-Jay Records. The guitarist Davy Graham recorded it for his 1966 album ...