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Lead Performance: The Drifters; Genre: Reissues
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Tom Sinclair
Tom Sinclair is a senior writer for EW and has been called "the handsomest man in rock criticism'' (by his wife)
In the '50s and early '60s, Atlantic Records dominated black rock, and its flagship group was the Drifters. The group had four magnificent lead singers (Clyde McPhatter, Ben E. King, Rudy Lewis, and Johnny Moore) and two identities: early on, a gutbucket vitality (''Money Honey''), and later, a bittersweet urbanity (''Up on the Roof''). Rhino stretches things in Rockin' & Driftin': The Drifters Box by documenting McPhatter's solo career and (some of) King's, but that's all right. It means we get gems like ''A Lover's Question'' and ''Spanish Harlem.'' A
Posted May 17, 1996
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