At one time, in the "coastal Carolina's" area...there were 3 different groups using the 'Drifters' name. Much legal action to sort it out. Obviously they were very popular to those of us who dance the Shag to beach music "Grand Strand Style". My brother-in-law was the keyboard player for the...
"On a Bus To St. Cloud"...by Georgia's own Trisha Yearwood from the album "Thinkin' About You".
I have seen her perform this twice and she grabs the audience and doesn't let them go. This was at a 'chatty' outdoor venue at Chastain Park.....but when Trisha sings her sad songs....folks actually...
"Softly as I Leave You". I know.....I am showing my age. Frank defined my dad's generation.....every bit as much as the Beatles defined this young teenagers generation. My dad was a contemporary of Franks and lived two townships over (Wood Ridge) from Hoboken in Bergen County, NJ...above the...
I don't know how old any of you folks are....but I grew up with this music.....The Drifters have a very interesting history.....as at one time in the south there were three groups claiming to be the Drifters....there was Bill Pinckney and the Drifters, there was The Original Drifters and simply...
This music "60 Minute Man" and 1000 others are still played in the "shag" clubs in the South to this very day. It is considered "Beach Music" in the south....not to be confused with the great beach sound of the '60's from california.