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Butch Leake, singer from the legendary group The Drifters, opens up about his journey in the music business and what he is doing to keep their legacy alive.
video slides featuring the original bell record recording group...johnny moore/butch leake/bill fredricks/grant kitchings and clyde brown....
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Classic first Drifters and Clyde McPhatter
To historians and many fans, "The Drifters" means Clyde McPhatter, although he was with the group for only one year. McPhatter was lead tenor for Billy Ward and His Dominoes for three years, starting in 1950. McPhatter's high-pitched tenor was mostly responsible for the Dominoes' success. In 1953, Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic Records attended a Dominoes performance at Birdland, and noticed McPhatter was absent. Jerry Wexlerrecalled, Wanting to blend gospel and secular sounds, McPhatter's first e...
Bill Pinkney's Original Drifters
Although Treadwell owned the Drifters brand, original members felt they were the real Drifters and were determined to keep the group alive. Bill Pinkney left first. After receiving exclusive and irrevocable ownership of the name/mark "The Original Drifters" in a binding arbitration, he joined with the Thrashers and David Baughan to begin touring as "The Original Drifters". Several original Drifters came in and out of this group over time, as well as other new artists, but these Drifters never...
The New Drifters
Treadwell owned the rights to the name "Drifters" and still had a year's worth of bookings for the Apollo when he fired the group. In summer 1958, he approached Lover Patterson, the manager of the Five Crowns featuring lead singer Benjamin Earl Nelson—better known by his stage name of Ben E. King—and arranged for them to become the Drifters. The new line-up consisted of King (lead tenor), Charlie Thomas(tenor), Dock Green (baritone), and Elsbeary Hobbs (bass). James "Poppa" Clark was the fift...
Dock Green led his group, the Drifters featuring Dock Green, throughout the 1970s and 1980s. That group consisted of Green (lead/baritone), Derek Ventura (lead/tenor), Lloyd Butch Phillips (second tenor), and Bernard Jones (bass/baritone).Green died on March 10, 1989; Phillips died in 2002. Ray Lewis and Roy Hemmings have led a Drifters group. Bobb...
The Vocal Group Hall of Fame has inducted both "The Original Drifters" (1998) and "Ben E. King and the Drifters" (2000). In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the Drifters number 81 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. In 1988, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted the Drifters; naming members Clyde McPhatter, Bill Pinkney, Gerhart Thra...
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The Atlantic Years 1953–1972(does not include Bill Pinkney's Original Drifters (1959– ), Charlie Thomas's Drifters (1971– ) or the Drifters in the UK (1972– ) which for many years featured Johnny Moore.); nor does it include the various later Drifters groups that used the name but have no connection with the Treadwell Drifters,
"The Drifters". Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.SLIDE VIDEO FEATURING THE ORIGINAL BELL RECORDING GROUP THE DRIFTERS: JOHNNY MOORE, BUTCH LEAKE, BILL FREDRICKS, GRANT KITCHINGS WITH CLYDE BROWN AND BILLY L...
The Drifters Legends History, Music and Photographic Legacy by Butch Leake Music History In The Making.....
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23 de jul. de 2018 · Singer Butch Leake is reuniting the 70's incarnation of the band this year.
