The Drifters
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Profile by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 7 October 1961
IN AMERICA, TWENTY-ONE HITS. IN BRITAIN — THREE! NORMAN JOPLING FOCUSES ON... THE INCONSISTENT DRIFTERS ...
The Great Unknowns No.4: Ben E. King
Discography by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 20 April 1963
The Latin-Tinged Balladeer Who Never Quite Made It! ...
Ben E. King — 'The Drifters and I'
Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 15 February 1964
A MUSIC reporters life is not an easy one. But a big consolation is when instead of having to report on music and artistes which ...
The Drifters: Lyceum Theatre, London
Live Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 3 April 1965
DESPITE THE attraction of the Queen at an Aldwych theatre and the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon at Covent Garden Opera House, a ...
The Drifters: The Big Daddy Group
Profile and Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 3 April 1965
THE MOST interesting thing about the Drifters isn't the fact that they've been singing for ten years, that they've sold millions of records, that they've ...
LP's from Ben E. King & Drifters
Review by Peter Jones, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 5 June 1965
THE DRIFTERS — The Good Life — 'Quando Quando Quando'; 'On The Street Where You Live'; 'I Wish You Love'; 'Tonight'; 'More'; 'What Kind Of ...
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 15 January 1966
CILLA BLACK: 'Love's Just A Broken Heart' (Parlophone). It's Cilia — she's great, but this is one of those things that need a second listen. ...
Essay by Paul Williams, Crawdaddy!, March 1966
ROCK 'N' ROLL songs, according to a joke now about ten years old, have three types of lyrics: a) I love my baby, b) my ...
Atlantic's Tom Dowd: The Real Music Man
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, May 1968
TOM DOWD is a walking encyclopedia on the history of American pop music. In fact, Tom Dowd created twenty years of pop history since he ...
Aretha Franklin, the Drifters: Philharmonic Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 14 October 1968
ARETHA FRANKLIN IN TWIN CONCERTS ...
Joe Turner/LaVern Baker/The Clovers/The Coasters/The Drifters/Chuck Willis: Greatest Recordings
Review by Charlie Gillett, Rolling Stone, 3 February 1972
IN 1967, ARETHA Franklin moved from Columbia to Atlantic – in what soon proved to be one of the most important moments in the history ...
Clyde McPhatter: A Personal Tribute
Obituary by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 30 June 1972
CLYDE McPhatter is dead. I would be a liar if I said I was surprised because Clyde has been 'lost' for quite a few years. ...
Personal Recollection: Clyde McPhatter & the Drifter Years
Memoir by Jerry Wexler, Rolling Stone, 20 July 1972
(Jerry Wexler is Executive Vice-President at Atlantic Records, the most significant of the early independent labels that recorded R&B. He and Ahmet Ertegun produced the ...
Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 6 October 1972
DESPITE BEING relatively cold in the States right now, The Drifters are having their most successful year ever in this country. They currently are on ...
The Drifters: Drifting With An Endless Identity Crisis
Report by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 31 August 1974
"BELL RECORDS and Henry Sellers Ltd., on behalf of Faye Treadwell, manager of the Drifters, wish to make known that Charlie Thomas and the Drifters ...
Retrospective and Interview by Cliff White, Black Music, October 1974
WHEN is a Drifter not a Drifter? That is the question. ...
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 15 April 1975
TRYING TO interview the Drifters sometimes proves an almost impossible task but it is one that I relish every time it is made possible because ...
Ex Drifter Bill Chooses The British Way Of Life
Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 11 October 1977
THE BRITISH soul colony – an ever expanding group of ex-patriot Americans who have chosen the British way of life – has had a goodly ...
The Drifters: We haven't sung soul since Clyde McPhatter left!
Report and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 17 January 1978
GROUPS COME, groups go. One day it'll rain, next day it'll be sunny. But one thing that you can rely upon is the fact that ...
Retrospective by Bill Millar, The History of Rock, 1981
PERHAPS THE MOST INNOVATIVE OF ALL R&B singers, Clyde McPhatter brought a new and radical sound to popular music by singing with a spirit and ...
The Drifters: Under The Boardwalk
Retrospective by Bill Millar, The History of Rock, 1982
The Drifters are an institution. Very few vocal groups have remained popular for almost 30 years, and in an area notable for its lack of ...
Overview by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 12 January 1985
From the raw to the pure, from the sublime to the meticulous — BARNEY HOSKYNS sings the praises of 24 of music's most glorious voices. ...
Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters
Sleeve notes by Pete Grendysa, Atlantic Records, 1988
FROM THE MOMENT the lights were dimmed in the old St. Nicholas Arena for Alan Freed's first New York Rock And Roll Show in January, ...
Kenny Lynch: Nothing But The Real Thing
Sleeve notes by Kieron Tyler, RPM Records, September 2004
KENNY LYNCH HAS been at the heart of British showbusiness over 40 years. Whether he's acting, writing for light entertainment or drama, singing, performing comedy ...
Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters
Sleeve notes by Gene Sculatti, Collector's Choice Music, August 2007
"I fell in love with the man's voice. I toured with the group and watched Clyde and listened; finally I got a chance to join ...
The Drifters: I'll Take You Where The Music's Playing (Collectors' Choice Music)
Sleeve notes by Gene Sculatti, Collectors' Choice Music, August 2007
IF THE MID-'60s "Brill Building era" – when teams like Goffin-King, Bacharach-David and Mann-Weil wrote like what seemed two-thirds of the hits in Top 40 ...
Obituary by David Hepworth, The Word, October 2011
The man who made "15-minute radio plays" into hits. ...
see also Ben E. King
see also Clyde McPhatter
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