Episode 2348: Charlie Thomas ~ Tribute ~ The Drifters, Rock & Roll of Fame Inductee & Original Member talks about His Life, The Group & Ben E. King Pt.1!!
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English - February 03, 2023 00:00 - 46 minutes - 5.29 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsManagement Business business celebrities careers investing fitness r&b Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Rhythm & Blues Foundation Inductee,Grammy® Award Nominee
A Music Group BEFORE my Time that created Beautiful Music that is Classic & Treasured Today !!
I LOVE MANY Genre's of Music, I Have a Special Place in my Heart for The Drifter's Music.
This is my Tribute Show to a True Classy Gentleman, The last remaining Original Group Member who recorded the Music Hits, Charlie Thomas who just passed away this Week January 31st, 2023. This is Part 1 of my interview with him.
Charlie actually Thanked Me for Interviewing HIM?!, the Honor was ALL Mine, What a Gentleman!
Charles Thomas was an American singer best known for his work with The Drifters. Thomas was performing with The Five Crowns at the Apollo Theater in 1958 when George Treadwell fired his group, called The Drifters. Treadwell recruited the Five Crowns to become the new Drifters.
Although the Five Crowns never made any impression on the national charts under their own name, they regularly charted locally in New York and were stars in Harlem.
The new Drifters' first release was the 1959 hit "There Goes My Baby". This version of the group released the smash "There Goes My Baby," working for the first time with legendary songwriter/producers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, and followed with a string of hits including the top 10 "Save The Last Dance For Me" and "This Magic Moment." Charlie was lead singer on two of the group's top 40 hits, "Sweets for My Sweet" and "When My Little Girl Is Smiling". Their late-'50s incarnation, featuring original members Doc Green, James Clark, Elsbeary Hobbs, Ben E. King, and Charles Thomas, became the post-1958 Drifters, responsible for "There Goes My Baby" and the core of the group that later recorded "Up on the Roof," "Under the Boardwalk," and "On Broadway."
Most of The Drifters biggest hits featured different lead singers:
Ben E. King
“There Goes My Baby”
“Dance With Me”
“This Magic Moment”
“Save the Last Dance for Me”
“I Count the Tears”
Charlie Thomas
“Sweets for My Sweet”
“Room Full of Tears”
“When My Little Girl is Smiling”
Rudy Lewis
“Some Kind of Wonderful”
“Up On the Roof”
“Please Stay”
“On Broadway”
Clyde McPhatter
“Money Honey”
“Honey Love”
Bill Pinkney
Johnny Moore
“Adorable”
“Fools Fall In Love”
“Ruby Baby”
“Under the Boardwalk”
“I’ve Got Sand in My Shoes”
“Saturday Night at the Movies”
Bobby Hendricks
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