DOO-WOP XMAS CLASSIC DRIFTERS 78 " WHITE CHRISTMAS " wol US ATLANTIC 1048 E-/V+
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Oct 24, 2015 Start Date
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A VERY GOOD COPY OF THIS CLASSIC CHRISTMAS DOO-WOP 78 FROM THE DRIFTERS featuring CLYDE McPHATTER

WHITE CHRISTMAS

The Drifters served to link Fifties rhythm & blues with Sixties soul music. They epitomized the vocal group sound of New York City. Theirs was the sweet but streetwise sound of R&B suffused with gospel influences. The material the Drifters recorded came from a variety of sources, including the songwriting teams of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, and Gerry Goffin and Carole King. All were New York-based songwriters who wrote evocatively of romance and everyday life in the big city, and the Drifters made an ideal vehicle for the convincing delivery of such scenarios. The records they cut with Leiber and Stoller (who doubled as producers) introduced the sound of strings and Latin-tinged rhythms into the vocabulary of popular music.

The name “Drifters” was chosen by Clyde McPhatter, the honey-voiced singer who was the first in a long line of lead voices. He could not have chosen a better name, since members drifted in and out of the band from the very beginning. The Hall of Fame inductees span the group’s history: McPhatter, Ben E. King, Rudy Lewis, Johnny Moore, Bill Pinkney, Gerhart Thrasher and Charlie Thomas. All the same, a consistent high standard was maintained throughout the Drifters’ recording career on Atlantic Records, which lasted from late 1953 to early 1966. During that time, they cut numerous records that stand as milestones of sweet soul music.

So important were the Drifters to Atlantic Records that label cofounder Ahmet Ertegun proclaimed them “the all-time greatest Atlantic group.” They had Number One singles with three different singers - McPhatter, Moore and King - which must stand as some kind of record. The era of Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters, which lasted only from 1953-4, yielded “Money Honey”, “Honey Love” and “White Christmas.”



THE STORY GOES THAT IRVING BERLIN HATED THIS VERSION OF HIS SONG BECAUSE IT WASN'T "WHITE" ENOUGH.....

 


DISC DETAILS

US ATLANTIC 1048    10" 78 RPM

B side:  THE BELLS OF ST MARY'S

CONDITION -  EX- / VG+ 

scuffs, scratches and marks giving a little background noise but has loads of shine and plays and sounds great! There is some writing on the labels - see scans

 

A GREAT XMAS DOO-WOP 78

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