The Drifters' Golden Hits

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The Drifters' Golden Hits is a 1968

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 (1981).^[2] 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.

Track listing

Personnel

Performance

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The Drifters

• Ben E. King – lead vocals (tracks 1, 3 – 6); backing vocals (track 2)
• Johnny Lee Williams – lead vocals (track 2); backing vocals (tracks 3–6)
• Rudy Lewis – lead vocals (tracks 7 – 9)
• Johnny Moore – lead vocals (tracks 10 – 12)
• Charlie Thomas – backing vocals (all tracks)
• Dock Green – backing vocals (tracks 1 – 8)
• Gene Pearson – backing vocals (tracks 9 – 12)
• Elsbeary Hobbs – backing vocals (tracks 1 – 6)
• Tommy Evans – backing vocals (tracks 7 – 9)
• Johnny Terry – backing vocals (tracks 10 – 12)
• Abdul Samad – guitar (tracks 2 – 12)
• Reggie Kimber – guitar (track 1)

Other personnel

• Doris Troy – additional backing vocals (tracks 5 – 7)
• Dee Dee Warwick – additional backing vocals (tracks 5 – 7)
• Dionne Warwick – additional backing vocals (tracks 5 – 7)
• Cissy Houston – additional backing vocals (tracks 5 – 7)

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

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