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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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TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
A1The DriftersSave The Last Dance For MeDoc Pomus, Mort ShumanRate
A2The DriftersI Count The TearsDoc Pomus, Mort ShumanRate
A3The DriftersSomebody New Dancin' With YouDoc Pomus, Mort ShumanRate
A4The DriftersJackpotAaron Schroeder, Chuck KayeRate
A5The DriftersNo Sweet Lovin'James Oliver, William Pinckney, David BaughanRate
A6The DriftersSweets For My SweetDoc Pomus, Mort ShumanRate
B1The DriftersMexican DivorceBurt F. Bacharach, Bob HilliardRate
B2The DriftersWhen My Little Girl Is SmilingCarole King, Jerry GoffinRate
B3The DriftersSome Kind Of WonderfulCarole King, Jerry GoffinRate
B4The DriftersPlease StayBurt F. Bacharach, Bob HilliardRate
B5The DriftersNobody But MeDoc Pomus, Mort ShumanRate
B6The DriftersRoom Full Of TearsDoc Pomus, Mort ShumanRate


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. :)



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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]


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