All-Time Greatest Hits & More: 1959-1965 (1988)

About this title: If Rhino's Very Best of the Drifters is a fine R&B snack, then All-Time Greatest Hits & More: 1959-1965 is a three-course gourmet meal with dessert built on the same ingredients. Forget about the higher price and the fact that 40 songs might seem to be more Drifters than most casual listeners would want -- All-Time Greatest Hits & More: 1959-1965 is a towering and magnificent collection of some of the best popular R&B ever done this side of Sam Cooke. And, as with Sam Cooke, the beautiful part of the Drifters' work during this period is that any look beyond and behind their hits reveals a lot ... read more

Tracks:

1. There Goes My Baby [Nelson/Patterson/Tr]
2. Oh My Love [Patterson/Lebish]
3. Baltimore [Lebish/Patterson/Co]
4. Hey Seņorita [Patterson/Treadwell]
5. Dance With Me [Lebish/Leiber/Nahan]
6. (If You Cry) True Love, True Love [Pomus/Shuman]
7. This Magic Moment [Pomus/Shuman]
8. Lonely Winds [Pomus/Shuman]
9. Nobody But Me [Pomus/Shuman]
10. Save the Last Dance for Me [Pomus/Shuman]
11. I Count the Tears [Pomus/Shuman]
12. Sometimes I Wonder [Patterson/King]
13. Please Stay [Bacharach/Hilliard]
14. Room Full of Tears [Pomus/Shuman]
15. Sweets for My Sweet [Pomus/Shuman]
16. Some Kind of Wonderful [Goffin/King]
17. Loneliness or Happiness [Bacharach/David]
18. Mexican Divorce [Bacharach/Hilliard]
19. Somebody New Dancing With You [Pomus/Shuman]
20. Jackpot [Schroeder/Kaye]
21. She Never Talked to Me That Way [Pomus/Shuman]
22. When My Little Girl Is Smiling [Goffin/King]
23. Stranger on the Shore [Bilk/Mellin]
24. What to Do [Samad/Davis/Treadwe]
25. Up on the Roof [Goffin/King]
26. Another Night With the Boys [Goffin/King]
27. I Feel Good All Over [Blackwell/Scott]
28. Let the Music Play [Bacharach/David]
29. On Broadway [Weil/Mann/Leiber/St]
30. I'll Take You Home [Weil/Mann]
31. If You Don't Come Back [Leiber/Stoller]
32. Didn't It [Clark]
33. One Way Love [Russell/Ragovoy]
34. He's Just a Playboy [Russell]
35. Under the Boardwalk [Resnick/Young]
36. I Don't Want to Go on Without You [Berns/Wexler]
37. I've Got Sand in My Shoes [Resnick/Young]
38. Saturday Night at the Movies [Mann/Weil]
39. At the Club [King/Goffin]
40. Come on Over to My Place [Weil/Mann]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.