The Drifters' Golden Hits
The Drifters' Golden Hits is a 1968 compilation album by American doo-wop/R&B vocal group The Drifters.
The album was included in Robert Christgau's "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. 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.
Chart performance
The collection of the bands' later hits peaked at No. 22 on Billboard's Hot R&B LP's chart, and also reached No. 122 on the Billboard Top LPs chart, during an eight-week run on it.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