Vinyl Album - The Drifters - Save The Last Dance For Me - London

Vinyl Album

Artist:	The Drifters
Title:	Save The Last Dance For Me
Label:	London / Atlantic
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	HA-K 2450
Date:	Jul 1962
Format:	LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	2 Own, 1 Wants
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	The Drifters	Save The Last Dance For Me	Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman	Rate
A2	The Drifters	I Count The Tears	Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman	Rate
A3	The Drifters	Somebody New Dancin' With You	Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman	Rate
A4	The Drifters	Jackpot	Aaron Schroeder, Chuck Kaye	Rate
A5	The Drifters	No Sweet Lovin'	James Oliver, William Pinckney, David Baughan	Rate
A6	The Drifters	Sweets For My Sweet	Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman	Rate
B1	The Drifters	Mexican Divorce	Burt F. Bacharach, Bob Hilliard	Rate
B2	The Drifters	When My Little Girl Is Smiling	Carole King, Jerry Goffin	Rate
B3	The Drifters	Some Kind Of Wonderful	Carole King, Jerry Goffin	Rate
B4	The Drifters	Please Stay	Burt F. Bacharach, Bob Hilliard	Rate
B5	The Drifters	Nobody But Me	Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman	Rate
B6	The Drifters	Room Full Of Tears	Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman	Rate

Notes

Mono Album.

Front Laminated Flip-Back Sleeve.

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Comments and Reviews


PhilMH 25th Apr 2017		Paul Pelletier's RECORD INFORMATION Issue Three gives the release date as July 1962; I presume that to be correct, as he would have taken the information from Decca's files and/or been given information by their executives. The UK Atlantic mono issue in Discogs is a Polydor-distributed reissue from 1966 (or later), Polydor didn't get the Atlantic licence until April of that year, so the 1961 on the label of that issue is phonographic copyright date (though incorrect), not release date.



Magic Marmalade 25th Apr 2017		...that said... I've just looked again, and on discogs, the UK mono on Atlantic only has a date on the label of 1961... whereas this has 1962... so maybe this came after?



Magic Marmalade 25th Apr 2017		Had a little look about, and it seems that this most often appears as an Atlantic only plum / orange label release (No longer joint label release with London Label)...which must be the replacement issue for this... Can't fix a date for that release though, and that seems to follow the U.S back over design as well as front, so maybe they felt no need to change this one.



Magic Marmalade 24th Apr 2017		Good spot! Although I love their music, I'm not an aficionado, especially with a group like The Drifters, who I understand had a few comings and goings through the years... so I wouldn't have spotted that myslef, but just taken their word for it. I just had a look at the U.S copy linked below, but of course, the back covers are the things that are most often changed between countries, so that mistake is not evident there. Would like to know if this error was corrected on later copies though... or has nobody ever noticed it even after all these years?!



gnag150flow 24th Apr 2017		I was very surprised when I enlarged the back cover and noticed the names of the individual Drifters: Carol (sic!) Gardner, Billy Guy, Bill Jones, Earl Carroll. All of them, Carl Gardner and the other three, were members of the Coasters, not the Drifters. The photo, of course, shows the Drifters (with Charlie Thomas in the top right corner).



Magic Marmalade 24th Apr 2017		Review *Life is always 50% better when The Drifters are playing!* As the back of the sleeve itself says, this is a one record "Hit Parade" all to itself, and there's plenty on here that in later years has made it on to numerous "greatest hits", and "best of" album of their music. Many will be familiar with the title track: Save The Last Dance For Me, as well as: Some Kind Of Wonderful, When My Little Girl Is Smiling, and Sweets For my Sweet (a different artist's version though, perhaps), and other may also be familiar with; I Count The Tears, Room Full Of Tears, Somebody New Dancing With You, and even Please stay, and Nobody But Me (phew!)... ... but the couple that remain (which I wanted to hear) are also great: No Sweet Lovin', Mexican Divorce, and Jackpot are slightly different form their usual style, but only marginally, and quality remains as high. And of course, if you can, get them in mono, so you really get the "feel" that only they have. Nice, (reasonably) loud on the disc, with open, full, and punchy mono, sounds just a little smoother than the London singles of some these I have, but that may be the format in general, or the thickness of the disc (the 45s usually have some wallop). A little piece of perfection. :) 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



Magic Marmalade 6th Apr 2017		Super tatty sleeve... but it'll do until someone replaces it with better scans. I only added it as "LP", even though it states mono, and the linked US release below seems to show there were both stereo and mono versions available, but I haven't seen a stereo for UK. The labels have a weird metallic pink text - on both sides... which I don't know if it was intentional, or just the effect of age, and the purple has bled through or something (?)

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Linked Releases

USA - Atlantic - 1962 [Mono]

UK - Atlantic - 1967 [Mono]