The people around them
Who works with them most. Tap a person to see everything they made.
Who makes their records
People credited as writer, producer, engineer or mixer on their songs.
Produced by, Written by
31 songs
Produced by
21 songs
Produced by, Written by
20 songs
Engineered by
20 songs
Engineered by
11 songs
Written by
9 songs
Written by
7 songs
Written by
7 songs
Produced by
6 songs
Written by
5 songs
Written by
5 songs
Written by
4 songs
Worth knowing
Counted from cited credits on fono.
Leiber & Stoller produced 5 of The Drifters’s top 10 songs
Jerry Wexler is The Drifters’s most frequent collaborator, credited on 31 songs
Credited songs by The Drifters span 72 years, 1953 to 2025 (72 songs)
Top songs
- 1
From Under the Boardwalk
- 2
1962
- 3
1963
- 4
- 2
- 5
Adorable
The Drifters, 1955
- 6
Amor
Ben E. King, The Drifters, 1961
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
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Where the songs were made
- Atlantic Studios2 songs
- Fulton Recording2 songs
- Beltone Studios1 song
- Coastal Recording1 song
- Master Recorders1 song
Releases
Members
- Charlie ThomasCT
- George GrantGG
- Dan DanbridgeDD
- Milton TurnerMT
- Bill Pinkney
- Butch MannBM
- Don ThomasDT
- Bobby HendricksBH
- Joe CofieJC
- James "Wrinkle" JohnsonJW
- Abdul SamaadAS
- Jason LeighJL
- James PoindexterJP
- David BaldwinDB
- Joe BluntJB
- Elsbeary HobbsEH
- Grant KitchingsGK
- Charlie HughesCH
- Butch LeakeBL
- Eugene PearsonEP
- Billy LewisBL
- Charles BaskervilleCB
- Gene JenkinsGJ
- David BaughanDB
Elsewhere
Sources (5)
Every fact on this page comes from one of these sources.
1MusicBrainz The Drifters is from New York
2Wikidata The genre of The Drifters is doo-wop
3Wikidata The genre of The Drifters is pop
4Wikidata The genre of The Drifters is r&b
5Wikidata The genre of The Drifters is soul