''The Drifters' Golden Hits'' is a 1968

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/ R&B vocal group The Drifters. The collection of the bands' later hits charted at #22 on Billboard's "Black Albums" chart and at #122 on the "Pop Albums" chart. The album was included in

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's "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in '' Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies'' (1981). 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.

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) *

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– additional backing vocals (tracks 5 – 7) *

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– additional backing vocals (tracks 5 – 7) *

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– additional backing vocals (tracks 5 – 7)

Production

*Stan Applebaum –

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* Bert Berns –

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– producer *Jonny Meadow – research *Zal Schreiber – mastering * Garry Sherman – arranger *

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References

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