The Drifters Discography


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A-Side Year Lead singer Label US pop
chart
USR&B
chart
UK
chart
"Money Honey" 1953 Clyde McPhatter Atlantic 1
"Lucille" 1954 Clyde McPhatter Atlantic
"Honey Love" 1954 Clyde McPhatter Atlantic 21 1
"Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)" 1954 Clyde McPhatter Atlantic
"White Christmas" 1954 Clyde McPhatter, Bill Pinkney Atlantic 80 5
"Such A Night" 1954 Bill Pinkney, Clyde McPhatter Atlantic 2
"Whatcha Gonna Do" 1955 Clyde McPhatter Atlantic 2
"Everyone's Laughing" 1955 Clyde McPhatter Atlantic
"Adorable" 1955 Johnny Moore Atlantic 1
"Steamboat" (B-Side) 1956 Bill Pinkney Atlantic 5
"Ruby Baby" 1956 Johnny Moore Atlantic 10
"I Gotta Get Myself a Woman" 1956 Johnny Moore, Bill Pinkney Atlantic 11
"Fools Fall in Love" 1957 Johnny Moore Atlantic 10
"Hypnotized" 1957 Johnny Moore Atlantic 79
"I Know" 1957 Johnny Moore Atlantic
"Drip Drop" 1957 Bobby Hendricks Atlantic 58
"Moonlight Bay" (B-Side) 1957 Bobby Hendricks Atlantic 72
"There Goes My Baby" 1959 Ben E. King Atlantic 2 1
"(If You Cry) True Love, True Love" 1959 Johnny Lee Williams Atlantic 33 5
"Dance with Me" (B-Side) 1959 Ben E. King Atlantic 1 2 17 (as A-side)
"This Magic Moment" 1960 Ben E. King Atlantic 16 4
"Lonely Winds" 1960 Ben E. King Atlantic 54 9
"Save the Last Dance for Me" 1960 Ben E. King Atlantic 1 1 2
"I Count the Tears" 1960 Ben E. King Atlantic 17 28
"Some Kind of Wonderful" 1961 Rudy Lewis Atlantic 32 6
"Please Stay" 1961 Rudy Lewis Atlantic 14 13
"Sweets for My Sweet" 1961 Charlie Thomas Atlantic 16 10
"Room Full of Tears" 1961 Charlie Thomas Atlantic 72
"When My Little Girl Is Smiling" 1962 Charlie Thomas Atlantic 28 31
"Stranger on the Shore" 1962 Rudy Lewis Atlantic 73
"Sometimes I Wonder" 1962 Ben E. King Atlantic
"Up on the Roof" 1963 Rudy Lewis Atlantic 5 4
"On Broadway" 1963 Rudy Lewis Atlantic 9 7
"If You Don't Come Back" 1963 Rudy Lewis Atlantic
"Rat Race" (B-Side) 1963 Rudy Lewis Atlantic 71
"I'll Take You Home" 1964 Johnny Moore Atlantic 25 24 37
"Vaya Con Dios" 1964 Johnny Moore Atlantic 43
"One-Way Love" 1964 Johnny Moore Atlantic 56
"Under the Boardwalk" 1964 Johnny Moore Atlantic 4 45 45
"I've Got Sand in My Shoes" 1964 Johnny Moore Atlantic 33
"Saturday Night at the Movies" 1964 Johnny Moore Atlantic 18 3
"The Christmas Song /I Remember Christmas" 1964 Johnny Moore Atlantic
"At the Club" 1965 Johnny Moore Atlantic 43 10 35
"Come On Over to My Place" 1965 Johnny Moore Atlantic 60 9
"Follow Me" 1965 Johnny Moore Atlantic
"I'll Take You Where the Music's Playing" 1965 Johnny Moore Atlantic 51
"Memories Are Made of This" 1966 Johnny Moore Atlantic 48
"Baby What I Mean" 1966 Johnny Moore Atlantic 49
"Ain't It the Truth" 1967 Johnny Moore Atlantic 36
"Something Tells Me" 1972 Johnny Moore Bell
"You've Got Your Troubles" 1973 Johnny Moore Bell
"Like Sister and Brother" 1973 Johnny Moore Bell 7
"Kissin' in the Back Row of the Movies" 1974 Johnny Moore Bell 83 2
"Down on the Beach Tonight" 1974 Johnny Moore Bell 7
"Love Games" 1974 Johnny Moore Bell 33
"There Goes My First Love" 1975 Johnny Moore Bell 3
"Can I Take You Home Little Girl" 1975 Johnny Moore Bell 10
"Hello Happiness" 1976 Johnny Moore Bell 12
"Every Night's a Saturday Night With You" 1976 Johnny Moore Bell 29
"You're More than a Number in My Little Red Book" 1976 Johnny Moore Arista 5

For detailed historical notes on The Drifters, check out Marv Goldberg's highly entertaining "R&B Notebooks"
The Drifters (The Early Years) www.uncamarvy.com/Drifters/drifters.html

Ben E. King www.uncamarvy.com/BenEKing/beneking.html

The Later Drifters www.uncamarvy.com/DriftersLate/drifterslate.html

Wikipedia is always good.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Drifters

Also worth a look: Soulful Kinda Music
www.soulfulkindamusic.net/drifters.htm

YouTube Drifters Playlist
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