Discover releases, reviews, track listings, recommendations, and more about The Drifters - Up On The Roof - The Best Of The Drifters at Discogs. Complete your The Drifters collection/5(22).

Original Drifters version. It was recorded first by Ben E. King and the Drifters. The Drifters version spent 11 weeks on the Billboard Hot and reached No. 16 on April 2, The session musicians Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller hired to play on this record were: Phil Bodner on sax, Ernie Hayes on piano, George Barnes (musician) and Bucky Pizzarelli on guitar, George Duvivier on bass, and.

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Song information for This Magic Moment - The Drifters on AllMusic. Song information for This Magic Moment - The Drifters on AllMusic The Best of the Drifters. Warner Music: Rip It Up: Kickin' Away the 50's. Jasmine: The Drifters. Saturday Night at the Movies and More Hits.

"This Magic Moment" was one of the biggest and best Drifters hits on which Ben E. King sang lead, making #16 in The lates and earlys Drifters records were very innovative in being among the first pop-rock hits to creatively use string arrangements, and "This Magic Moment" was an outstanding example.

out of 5 stars "Spend many Magic Moments with this Drifters CD". Reviewed in the United States on June 17, I like diverse styles of music (rock, jazz, country, and rock, and I'm getting some into classical and film scores), but I have been very fond of early rock 'n' roll and doo-wop/5(2).

The legendary Drifters first started recording back in when R & B music was limited to the black only radio stations but broke out of that hold in with There Goes My Baby and rock & roll found its first vocal group super-stars.4/5(5).

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