Greatest Hits [DVD]

Artist	The Drifters
Label Name	MVD
Song List	1: At the Club 2: Save the Last Dance for Me 3: Up on the Roof 4: This Magic Moment 5: Fools Fall in Love 6: The Way I Feel 7: Ruby Baby 8: Memories Are Made of This 9: Honey Love 10: Dance with Me 11: Without Love (There Is Nothing) 12: Baby What I Mean 13: Sweet Caroline 14: Under the Boardwalk 15: Come on Over to My Place 16: Sweets for My Sweet 17: Love Games 18: Down on the Beach Tonight 19: I Who Have Nothing 20: I've Got Sand in My Shoes 21: Some Kind of Wonderful 22: I'll Take You Home 23: Spanish Harlem 24: Stand by Me 25: Like Sister & Brother 26: On Broadway 27: There Goes My First Love 28: You're More Than a Number in My Little Red Book 29: Saturday Night at the Movies 30: Hello Happiness 31: Kissin' in the Back Row of the Movies 32: Special Features [DVD]
Format	Digital Video Disc (DVD)
Release Date	2007 06 26
Style.Categories	Doo Wop, Pop, R&B

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If you try looking for Peter Lamarr (joined in 1990), Rohan Delano Turney (1991), Patrick Alan (joined the band in 1999) and Victor Bynoe (joined in February of 2002) in the files of the dozens of people who have credentials in a group known as The Drifters, well, they are far down on the totem pole. But something has to be said for the honesty of this DVD admitting that they are the latter-day voices carrying on in the tradition of what came before, and for interviewing these young men who probably weren't even alive when Atlantic Records had a hit in 1959 with "There Goes My Baby", the first of 16 Top 40 tunes that appeared between that date and 1964. Joining a band 43 years after its initial hit would have more validity if the singers found their own niche, the way the post-Diana Ross Supremes were truly a force on pop radio with some magnificent songs they could call their own. But the post-Ross Supremes did have Mary Wilson and Wilson has always exhibited glamour and soul. The forty-five minutes of interview footage plays like one of those "under review" pseudo documentaries by the current members of this Drifters, which is pretty amusing if you think about it. Wouldn't it have been more credible to have the guys talk about their lives in music than their thoughts on musicians they appear to know very little about? It's really tragic hearing what most would consider a cover band singing "This Magic Moment" without the guts and passion a Ben E. King poured into it. Even if the cup was passed from Johnny Moore to the fellows carrying on with the name in the new millennium. If you're going to wear the mantle you'd better sweat while performing the hits. The saxophone player, Scott Garland, reads charts while playing and that's indicative of what the vocalists do with the hits, the proverbial reading 'em off a restaurant menu. Four voices coloring old songs by the numbers. Recorded live on the very small Classic T Stage of Shepperton International Film Studios, The Drifters The Greatest Hits (the title on the DVD face) or The Drifters Greatest Hits Live (the name on the DVD case) has one great moment - Gary Brooker of Procol Harum playing piano with four singers who call themselves The Drifters or, maybe more accurately, The Drifters U.K. Ltd.). "A World Of Love" features these fellows displaying how beautiful their voices can be when they step out on their own and do something more constructive than singing someone else's songs half heartedly. Let's face it, an Elvis impersonator is more up front about what he is doing than three young ladies calling themselves The Marvelettes and running through "Please, Mr. Postman" with absolutely no vibe of when that material leaped out of the transistor and generated pure excitement. And that's what the concert performance by these Drifters offers - no excitement. But the great Gary Brooker adding his vocals to "A World Of Love", ahh, that's worth the price of admission and a reason to buy what is otherwise a group of men singing Drifters songs and providing their commentary on the group. The four and a half minute tune is superb, their harmonies sublime and perhaps they should've played the entire concert with Gary Brooker. That would take the concert from Grade Z to something worth watching. Procol Harum fans will be more interested in this disc than fans of The Drifters as Gary Brooker truly adds a much needed touch of class. ~ Joe Viglione, All Music Guide