The Drifters: I'll Take You Where The Music's Playing (Collectors' Choice Music)
Gene Sculatti, Collectors' Choice Music, August 2007
IF THE MID-'60s "Brill Building era" – when teams like Goffin-King, Bacharach-David and Mann-Weil wrote like what seemed two-thirds of the hits in Top 40 Land – was the Camelot of American pop, then the Drifters were its foremost court troubadours.
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