The Drifters' Golden Hits
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.
The album was included in Robert Christgau's "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in . In 2012, Rolling Stone listed the album at #459 in its list of "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". 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.Track listing
Personnel
Performance
The Drifters
- Ben E. King - lead vocals ; backing vocals
- Johnny Lee Williams - lead vocals ; backing vocals
- Rudy Lewis - lead vocals
- Johnny Moore - lead vocals
- Charlie Thomas - backing vocals
- Dock Green - backing vocals
- Gene Pearson - backing vocals
- Elsbeary Hobbs - backing vocals
- Tommy Evans - backing vocals
- Johnny Terry - backing vocals
- Abdul Samad - guitar
- Reggie Kimber - guitar
Other personnel
- Doris Troy - additional backing vocals
- Dee Dee Warwick - additional backing vocals
- Dionne Warwick - additional backing vocals
- Cissy Houston - additional backing vocals
Production
- Stan Applebaum - arranger
- Bert Berns - producer
- Charlie Brown - liner notes
- Ray Ellis - arranger
- Loring Eutemey - design
- Jerry Leiber - producer
- Jonny Meadow - research
- Zal Schreiber - mastering
- Garry Sherman - arranger
- Mike Stoller - producer
- Teacho Wiltshire - arranger
