Save the Last Dance for Me: Good Life With Drifter

Drifters | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 20, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B00004TFF1
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #256,251 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #61 in Music > Indie Music > R&B > Classic R&B

Track Listings

1. Save The Last Dance For Me

2. I Count The Tears

3. Somebody New Dancin' With You

4. Jackpot

5. No Sweet Lovin'

6. Sweets For My Sweet

7. Mexican Divorce

8. When My Little Girl Is Smiling

9. Some Kind Of Wonderful

10. Please Stay

11. Nobody But Me

12. Room Full Of Tears

13. Quando Quando Quando

14. On The Street Where You Live

15. I Wish You Love

16. Tonight

17. More

18. What Kind Of Fool Am I

19. The Good Life

20. As Long As She Needs Me

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Two classic Atlantic albums from '61 and '65, featuring some of the Drifters' biggest hits-including Save the Last Dance for Me; Some Kind of Wonderful; I Count the Tears; Sweets for My Sweet; Please Stay; Saturday Night at the Movies; Mexican Divorce; Tonight; Temptation , and more. 24 tracks, over an hour of music!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars Last of the scraps - Drifters completists only need buy, October 10, 2010

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This review is from: Save the Last Dance for Me: Good Life With Drifter (Audio CD)

If you have bought the five CD box set "The Drifters - Original Album Series" you will know what a bargain that offering is and that the best of the two LPs included here, the 1962 release "Save the last dance for me", is already included in that box set.

As a result, only die hard Drifters fans will one suspects be interested in this new pairing. In addition, the new 1964 released LP "The good life" is really filler material vastly different in style and choice from the rest of the Drifters usual output. Comprising 12 songs largely culled from Broadway musicals of the 50s and 60s its recording apparently was a disaster with Tom Dowd and Arid Mardin having to patch the Drifters vocals with their own voices! The album is padded out with the incongruous inclusion of "Saturday night at the movies", simply because the original choice "Temptation" could not be rescued by the same approach. Overall, it is largely an exercise in cocktail lounge type music vocals with little of the group's usually excellent production values. The result is while the vocals are acceptable, none of the songs performed are very memorable.

The fact that the notes included are simply reprints of the original LP sleeve notes and no additional material reflects that this is simply an exercise in completing a re-releasing of all Drifters output, which only Drifters fans who must have everything will finally be interested in.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Awesome sound and voices, April 7, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Save the Last Dance for Me: Good Life With Drifter (Audio CD)

What a great albulm to spend a bright summer day outside on the lawn with some lemonade. The cd will never get old. Just listen to it a couple times and you'll be hooked. Enjoy. You won't be dissappointed