Condition: Used
Drifters - Let The Boogie-Woogie Roll: Greatest Hits 1953-58
Label: Atlantic
Catalogue: SD2 912
Vinyl: 2LP Set
Records are in VG+ VG++
Cover has very slight cornerwear, is gatefold and has three inches of pen on the inner gatefold, as well as two inches of highlighter.
Side A
1. Lucille
2. Money Honey
3. The Way I Feel
4. Let The Boogie Woogie Roll
5. Gone
6. Such A Night
7. Warm Your Heart
8. Dont Dog Me
Side B
9. Bip Bam
10. Whatcha Gonna Do
11. Honey Love
12. White Christmas
13. The Bells Of St. Marys
14. If I Didnt Love You Like I Do
15. There You Go
16. Someday You'll Want Me To Want You
Side C
17. Try Try Baby
18. Everyones Laughing
19. Hot Ziggety
20. Three Thirty Three
21. Honey Bee
22. Adorable
23. Your Promise To Be Mine
24. Steamboat
Side D
25. Ruby Baby
26. I Should Have Done Right
27. Honky Tonky
28. Sadie My Lady
29. I Gotta Get Myself A Woman
30. Fools Fall In Love
31. It Was A Tear
32. Drip Drop
Drifters - White Christmas
Ive been looking for this FOREVER! This is the best version,
my favorite Christmas song.. hands down :)
Clyde McPhatter, tenor, could put across a song better than all of today's "starrs" and most of the past ones.
The Drifters - Fools fall in love ( Live) at the Melrose Fest July 4th 2009
After hearing that McPhatter had left the Dominoes, on May 7, 1953 Ahmet Ertegün of Atlantic Records signed him to form a new group. Wanting to blend gospel and secular sounds, his first effort was to get 4 out of 5 members of his old church group, the Mount Lebanon Singers. They were William “Chick” Anderson (tenor), David Baldwin (baritone), James “Wrinkle” Johnson (bass), and David “Little Dave” Baughan (tenor). After a single recording session of four songs on June 29, 1953, McPhatter saw this combination didn't work and recruited another lineup.
This second effort also comprised gospel vocalists in second tenor Gerhart Thrasher, baritone Andrew Thrasher (both formerly of the gospel group the "Thrasher Wonders"), Bill Pinkney (of the Jerusalem Stars) on high tenor, Willie Ferbee as bass, and Walter Adams on guitar.
This is the group on the second session, which produced the group's first major hit, "Money Honey", released September 1953. "Lucille" from the first session was put on the B side, making a recording industry rarity as a single released with songs from two essentially separate groups of the same name on the A and B sides. "Money Honey" was a huge success and propelled The Drifters to immediate fame.
More lineup changes followed after the session when Ferbee was involved in an accident and left the group, and then Adams died to be replaced by Jimmy Oliver. Ferbee was not replaced and the voice parts were shifted around. Gerhart Thrasher became first tenor, Andrew Thrasher was now the baritone, and Bill Pinkney shifted down to bass. This group released several more hits ("Such A Night" - Nov '53, "Honey Love" - Jun '54, "Bip Bam" Oct '54, "White Christmas" - Nov '54, and "What'cha Gonna Do" Mar '55) before McPhatter received his draft letter in May 1954.
Initially stationed in Buffalo, New York, he was able to continue for a time, with "What'cha Gonna Do" being Clyde's last recording, (after which he pursued a successful solo career charting 16 R&B and 21 Pop records).
Their first replacement on lead, David Baughan, delivers a dead on Clyde imitation on the terrific "Honey Bee" but his volatile personality made him a short lived member. Enter Johnny Moore who would ironically become the longest standing member, the only one to serve in both stylistic versions of the Drifters - here from '55 through '57 and then returning years later in 1964 to replace Rudy Lewis, starting with "Under The Boardwalk", cut just after Lewis's death. Moore led them through the late 70's when they were scoring hits in England and was a truly versatile singer, at home with the gospelish 50's or the soulful 60's. Once he too was called into the service in late '57 his place was taken briefly by Bobby Hendricks, ex-Sparrows member and soon to be solo star with "Itchy Twitchy Feeling, who scored this edition's final big hit "Drip Drop" before the Drifters manager George Treadwell got tired of the group's demands for higher salaries amidst declining sales
Regardless of who was on lead during these mid-years, be it Baughn, Moore or Hendricks, or sometimes other original members Gerhart Thrasher or Bill Pickney, the music didn't suffer. Thanks to the consistant production of Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler, good songwriting by many people including Leiber & Stoller's first efforts with them, R&B great Chuck Willis, or veteran R&B songwriters Otis Blackwell, Jesse Stone and frequently the Drifters guitarist Jimmy Oliver, the material remained first rate but for some reason no one was listening much after McPhatter left.
... in particular and the magnificent "It Was A Tear" featuring a powerhouse lead from Moore, which were all inexplicably left off the box), along with storming rocker the terrific "Sadie My Lady" which for some reason was never even released as a single back then, despite it being on par with the best sides McPhatter had done.
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