What happened to this music? We desperately need it today. Simple romantic respectful influential music heading people in the right relationship direction
It doesn’t get much better than Ben E. King and The Drifters. The music of my youth. There is nothing like it. The young people just do not realise what great music this was and still is! So many parties and dances played these wonderful tracks. Such great groups , and harmonies have never been duplicated. ❤
1959 I was only sweet 13 years of age,First time I heard the Drifter's,gave me goosebumps,fell in love with them♥️I am now 76 and am still turned on to them.🥰
The Drifters!! Music brings joy, and memories. It's one of the things that we all can relate to. I remember dancing to this song. Fantastic...what A time it was!
Smith Top of the day to you 🌅 Right back at ya I feel what you felt about this song. I agree with you A Trillion Percent.. Ain't no way no how we will never ever get music 🎵 like this again We are very blessed to have UTUBE so we hear all kinds of music dating from the time I, we were . young kids now we are Recycle teenagers it's magnificent.🤗👏 I really appreciate people like you who listens and ❤️ Music as much as I Do especially oldies but goodies 👏 U have a ear 👂 for unique beautiful songs and music 🎶🎶 U Are kind and especial ⭐ Thanks for letting me share my thoughts with you. Have bless or night 🌉 JAH LIVES ONE LOVE ❤️ GOD bless everyone who's listening to this master piece 🧩🙏🤝💃🙋 PS Your insight about this song was BEAUTIFUl, incredible and well said 👍👏
When i hear this song..the feeling i get is so amazing that i cant hardly understand and cant describes in words..close my eyes and feel the rhythm..and take me to that place where im in Peace and in Love...
I was lucky to attend a concert and dance of the "Drifters" in Albuquerque in 1960! Wow those were fun times! I'm glad to see that younger people are enjoying this music!
Conjure-up the image of that "special someone" from long ago, from another time. Let your memory take you back... and there you are. Entwine your arms around your one-and-only, as you glide through the crowd... you're there again, and the Drifters are singing -- everything that was perfect is just so again!
MC Top of the evening to you 🌉 Right back at ya 🆗 I agree with you A Trillion Percent 👏👌 Your insight about this song was beautiful incredibly amazing and well said WORD 👍 Yes I feel what you felt about this master piece 🧩 🎵🎶 I ❣️BK and the Drifters 😍😅💯💯💯💯I grew up listening to The Drifters and BK👂👏 I have All of their songs and albums 👏 I really appreciate people like you who listens to these master piece 🧩 Especially old school jams 🤛 Their songs gabs my ❤️ and the romantic feelings I get 🤗 make one 🕐 want to Fall in 😍😁 Excuse me I 🤗 When it comes down 👇 to ❣️ Songs I am a Sentimental 🤷 😁 I really appreciate people like you who listens and ❤️ Music as much as I Do especially oldies but goodies songs. You have a 👂 for unique beautiful songs. Have bless day 🌅 or night 🌉 JAH LIVES ONE LOVE ❤️ GOD bless everyone who's listening to this master piece 🧩🙏🙋
The music of the 50s and early 60s was the best!!!!!!!!!!!!! I never heard 50s music until the 1970s. And I was hooked. Most music has been crap since 1967. Except for CCR.
I can’t believe that I don’t have this song on my playlist. It’s off to the iTunes Store to rectify this oversight. I love everything that Ben E. King sings.
The rest of the world, well the UK anyway held the Drifters in high esteem, they appeared in Liverpool clubs during the 70's and 80's on a regular basis, I should imagine other cities were hosts to them too.
I knew aboutthe Drifters in my early 20s and really liked them but when I heard this song it brought a whole new meaning to my life. I cannot express what this song does to me. Possibly greatest drifters song ever. Thanks for posting I just love it!
Yes it is hard to find, when you search it usually gives you the Save the last Dance tune. There goes my baby was a good movie, I really like the movies that are set back in the 50's with the cars and music. Disney had a film called Susie Q and if you get a chance it has a ton of great Doo wop songs....bad news it was never released to VHS or DVD yet, but you tube has the movie in all its parts :)
They were the first doo wop group to record with a symphony orchestra , I remember Ben E. King saying that in an interview , no other doo wop group sounded like them and their sound really stood out
Who could refuse an invitation to twirl around the dance floor while the Drifters weave their magic words to glide us effortlessly in a dance of sheer, delightful pleasure!
This is a nice, typical Drifters tune, but IMHO, it doesn't compare to "Amor", which is one of his great solo renditions, recorded after he drifted away from The Drifters.
I love Ben E. king and the drifters this music is the best the melody is great combined with his voice and the harmony is sensational. I wish that they still wrote music like this. @chip10289 I love susie q it's one of my favorite disney movies I have'nt seen it in years. whoever dislikes this song does'nt know shit from shinola.
Here's my DJ hubster hipster's story 'bout this song: He was sweeping the garage floor as part of his household chores, and there was a radio tuned to AM1160 WJJD in Chicago. Mom found him, sweeping forgotten, swayin' with the broomstick, the first time he heard "Stand By Me"
Finally, Ben E. King made the cover!! Love me some Ben E. King! A voice that makes the song! From NC too! One of the best ever!! So was Clyde McPhatter. Great singers from the past!
Sept.28th: Happy birthday Soul singer Benjamin Earl King / Ben E. King (1938-2015) Grammy Hall of Fame, Rhythm & Blues Foundation Pioneer Award, star: Hollywood Walk of Fame. Thank you and God bless. RIP Legend. Thanks for the upload, Carlos Ivan. Blessings
another one of my fav's (besides all his songs ^.^ ) would be "Stand by me" OMG love these songs :( wish he still had live shows i would love to see him
On this day in 1959 {December 3rd} the Drifters performed "Dance With Me" on the Dick Clark ABC-TV weekday-afternoon program, 'American Bandstand'... At the time "Dance With Me" was at #15 on Billboard's Top 100, that would also be it's peak position on the chart, and it also spent fifteen weeks on the Top 100... It peaked at #2 {for 2 weeks} on November 9th, 1959 on Billboard's Hot R&B Sides chart, the two records that kept it out of the top spot were "So Many Ways" by Brook Benton and "Don't You Know" by Della Reese... And on the same 'Bandstand' show they also performed "Dance With Me's" B-side, "(If You Cry)True Love, True Love", it reached #5 on the Hot R&B Sides chart and #33 on the Top 100 chart... Between 1954 and 1966 the NYC-based group had thirty-six Top 100 records; five made the Top 10 with one reaching #1, "Save the Last Dance for Me", for three weeks in 1960... Besides "Save the Last Dance for Me", their four other Top 10 records were "There Goes My Baby" {#2* for 1 week in 1959}, "Up On The Roof" {#5 in 1963}, "On Broadway" {#9 in 1963}, and "Under The Boardwalk" {#4 in 1964}... * The week "There Goes My Baby" peaked at #2, the #1 record for that week was "A Big Hunk O Love" by Elvis...
CLASSIC! The Driters and Ben E King, Leiber&Stoller, Atlantic-Atco Records Ertegun&Abramson, NY's Premiere R&B Record Company, The Sound of NY 1959, Highbridge the Bronx 4th grade
This is real music, when it said something to the heart ❤️ and made you want to fall in love. And real singers. Yeeeeeees indeed 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
So very true.
Hasn't he just got one of the best voices ever!Wonderful memories of that era with great music 👏
This song is so timelessly beautiful...
Made in an era when music meant something.
Wonderful!!!!
What happened to this music? We desperately need it today. Simple romantic respectful influential music heading people in the right relationship direction
Have you noticed you can hear and understand the words pure class
Watching their concert right now in Houston, TX
Best songs, best artists, best music, best era! I miss it all. The world no longer speaks or sings of love today. How sad that is.
Quite possibly the greatest song of all time.
It doesn’t get much better than Ben E. King and The Drifters. The music of my youth. There is nothing like it. The young people just do not realise what great music this was and still is! So many parties and dances played these wonderful tracks. Such great groups , and harmonies have never been duplicated. ❤
Those tunes simply brought people together and then thereby brought such memories of when,TRUE MUSIC was made-
A top voice of the 50's & 60's. One hit after another
How can anyone NOT feel like dancing when they hear this!!
i wanna go back to those days so bad.
1959 I was only sweet 13 years of age,First time I heard the Drifter's,gave me goosebumps,fell in love with them♥️I am now 76 and am still turned on to them.🥰
I'm 44 and love their songs since I am 10. Such a gift to this world.
What else you can say but. WHAT A VOICE!!!!
Ben E. King, what can I say. One of the lead singers of the Drifters. What a voice. One of my favorite songs back in 1959. R.I.P. Benny...
There's is no comparison between the music of today and the music of yesterday... FOREVER LIVE DOO WOP.
@@thomasmoore7002 this is a step away from doowop
What a stunning voice! I sung it when it came out years ago. It's still Beautiful as ever! Thank you. I love this!!!
The Drifters!! Music brings joy, and memories. It's one of the things that we all can relate to. I remember dancing to this song. Fantastic...what A time it was!
if we could only return to this era, everything was cool and singers could REALLY sing
Music made sense. Made you feel happy!
We can. I have a time machine. See you soon Mr. Smith.
Totally agree best era ever on this beautiful Earth of ours😍🇬🇧🇬🇧👍🏻
We do return every time we listen to that beautiful music cuz that's what we know it is beautiful music
Smith Top of the day to you 🌅 Right back at ya I feel what you felt about this song. I agree with you A Trillion Percent.. Ain't no way no how we will never ever get music 🎵 like this again We are very blessed to have UTUBE so we hear all kinds of music dating from the time I, we were . young kids now we are Recycle teenagers it's magnificent.🤗👏 I really appreciate people like you who listens and ❤️ Music as much as I Do especially oldies but goodies 👏 U have a ear 👂 for unique beautiful songs and music 🎶🎶 U Are kind and especial ⭐ Thanks for letting me share my thoughts with you. Have bless or night 🌉 JAH LIVES ONE LOVE ❤️ GOD bless everyone who's listening to this master piece 🧩🙏🤝💃🙋
PS Your insight about this song was BEAUTIFUl, incredible and well said 👍👏
Today is not real life it’s such pain and sorrow but the 50’s and 60’s that was life plain, simple and honest…not perfect but really close.
When i hear this song..the feeling i get is so amazing that i cant hardly understand and cant describes in words..close my eyes and feel the rhythm..and take me to that place where im in Peace and in Love...
I was lucky to attend a concert and dance of the "Drifters" in Albuquerque in 1960! Wow those were fun times! I'm glad to see that younger people are enjoying this music!
Ski: I saw Ben E King in the UK around 1970s He was great 💯💯
Conjure-up the image of that "special someone" from long ago, from another time. Let your memory take you back... and there you are. Entwine your arms around your one-and-only, as you glide through the crowd... you're there again, and the Drifters are singing -- everything that was perfect is just so again!
Love this music can understand what is being said. Old school will last forever.
MC Top of the evening to you 🌉 Right back at ya 🆗 I agree with you A Trillion Percent 👏👌 Your insight about this song was beautiful incredibly amazing and well said WORD 👍 Yes I feel what you felt about this master piece 🧩 🎵🎶 I ❣️BK and the Drifters 😍😅💯💯💯💯I grew up listening to The Drifters and BK👂👏 I have All of their songs and albums 👏 I really appreciate people like you who listens to these master piece 🧩 Especially old school jams 🤛 Their songs gabs my ❤️ and the romantic feelings I get 🤗 make one 🕐 want to Fall in 😍😁 Excuse me I 🤗 When it comes down 👇 to ❣️ Songs I am a Sentimental 🤷 😁 I really appreciate people like you who listens and ❤️ Music as much as I Do especially oldies but goodies songs. You have a 👂 for unique beautiful songs. Have bless day 🌅 or night 🌉 JAH LIVES ONE LOVE ❤️ GOD bless everyone who's listening to this master piece 🧩🙏🙋
The music of the 50s and early 60s was the best!!!!!!!!!!!!! I never heard 50s music until the 1970s. And I was hooked. Most music has been crap since 1967. Except for CCR.
Wish I could go back to this kind of music I miss those times so very much
Regardless of who left or joined the group as years went on, they ALWAYS retained that fantastically harmonious blend. Unequaled.
what can you say the drifters made such great music and fantastic lead singers and this is one them
Love it. So romantic. I want to dance to this with someone I really,really like.
Movies with you please dance with me
I'm on my Bended Knees dance with me
I can’t believe that I don’t have this song on my playlist. It’s off to the iTunes Store to rectify this oversight. I love everything that Ben E. King sings.
Benny King certainly has a voice
Ans: listen to : Catherine and Goodnight my Love 💟
if this type of music was still here we would have love in our lives.
The rest of the world, well the UK anyway held the Drifters in high esteem, they appeared in Liverpool clubs during the 70's and 80's on a regular basis, I should imagine other cities were hosts to them too.
I knew aboutthe Drifters in my early 20s and really liked them but when I heard this song it brought a whole new meaning to my life. I cannot express what this song does to me. Possibly greatest drifters song ever. Thanks for posting I just love it!
I still love it 60 years on.....!
Timeless musical talent! What I wouldn't give to live during this era!
I did & it was fantastic
0 dislikes. That's what I like to see.
Yes it is hard to find, when you search it usually gives you the Save the last Dance tune. There goes my baby was a good movie, I really like the movies that are set back in the 50's with the cars and music. Disney had a film called Susie Q and if you get a chance it has a ton of great Doo wop songs....bad news it was never released to VHS or DVD yet, but you tube has the movie in all its parts :)
Wow! My Dad used to dance to this all by himself'; then he taught me to dance. Memories.
I just love this singer, this music will never grow old just bring out the best in me, I love it ,I love it.
O my God couldn’t be any better
I had the good fortune to see The Drifters when I was 14. What a show!
80 years strong black music
the best music ever was sung in the 50's
They were the first doo wop group to record with a symphony orchestra , I remember Ben E. King saying that in an interview , no other doo wop group sounded like them and their sound really stood out
my favorite group of all times.
The music is so beautiful the group Drifters are so good everything they sing is good they make you feel the music and the song
Who could refuse an invitation to twirl around the dance floor while the Drifters weave their magic words to glide us effortlessly in a dance of sheer, delightful pleasure!
Im going 29, and love to listen to 50-70'ies music, since I grew up with that playing on my parents LP-player!
What a voice, even now 56 later this song is still amazing and holding the test of time.
MarcieLuzMusic. You said it! A fabulous song , one of The Drifter’s finest efforts without a doubt.
CAN'T GET NO BETTER!
from bout 5 her old my dad my this and it is a hits song omg ❤🙏
One of those olden oldies.
I cannot decide if I like this or Amor better, but Ben E. King sure could sing. Amazing. there's no doubt about that!
This is a nice, typical Drifters tune, but IMHO, it doesn't compare to "Amor", which is one of his great solo renditions, recorded after he drifted away from The Drifters.
Egbert Souce Ben E King's recording of Amor is fabulous. I love it.
Amor is fabulous. And "Young boy blues"
@@tigerlily7246 listen to Catherine and Goodnigh my Love
Incredible sound.Love it.Johnny Lee Williams on first tenor.He also sang lead on True Love,True Love.These 5 guys were the Crowns.
The Drifters were blessed with fabulous lead singers. My guys were Mr King and the tragic Rudy Lewis. Super group.
Musica muito bonita.The driftets com Ben E. King é simplismente fenomenal. BEN um cantor grandioso que está entre os grandes da música.
Ven ami- Jennifer y los jets, latino verson
Oh my , are they golden or what? Darling won't you please!!
my favorite Drifters song. great harmonies.
More beautiful than today's music?
Its like losing a friend that I grew up with.RIP
yes.
Lula Jackson r in case union officials
RIP to the great Ben E King.
Ben E. King. 'Nuff said. RIP, Singer. Thanks for the post. Blessings
Where are they now
I have never heard good songs like this one before and believe or not this song make me love music from western part
Fantastic....
Wonderful memories !
I love Ben E. king and the drifters this music is the best the melody is great combined with his voice and the harmony is sensational. I wish that they still wrote music like this. @chip10289 I love susie q it's one of my favorite disney movies I have'nt seen it in years. whoever dislikes this song does'nt know shit from shinola.
Wow I remember dancing to this song in the early 60's!!
Here's my DJ hubster hipster's story 'bout this song: He was sweeping the garage floor as part of his household chores, and there was a radio tuned to AM1160 WJJD in Chicago. Mom found him, sweeping forgotten, swayin' with the broomstick, the first time he heard "Stand By Me"
Timeless classic
Heute ist Ben E. King verstorben. Ruhe in Frieden. wieder ein toller Musiker, der jetzt im Himmel mit den Chören singt. R.I.P
Finally, Ben E. King made the cover!! Love me some Ben E. King! A voice that makes the song! From NC too! One of the best ever!! So was Clyde McPhatter. Great singers from the past!
I danced to this in the day so wonderful to feel a boys arms around you actually dancing
...Everybody...join in on the WEXF radio festivities...57 years on the air
I love This Song It's My Favorite😎👍✌️💙💜🧡💖💗
Simply beautiful... ♫♪♥♫♪
I was just dancing in the shower alone listening to this Beautiful record on ALEXA (2024 )and Beyond!
Sept.28th: Happy birthday Soul singer Benjamin Earl King / Ben E. King (1938-2015) Grammy Hall of Fame, Rhythm & Blues Foundation Pioneer Award, star: Hollywood Walk of Fame. Thank you and God bless. RIP Legend. Thanks for the upload, Carlos Ivan. Blessings
beatiful song just beautiful ❤
Mamauana chhakchhuak ditto.... It's such a great feeling....brings back wonderful memories.....
Carlos Ivan...you know your music. Bravo
Love this song!!!!!
Me to...love this
Darling, won't you please? Oh yeah!
Many great ones, but we remember the great one, BEN.
I saw the Drifters at Hammersmith Paris, what a fantastic group.
Goodbye Ben E. King, : (
Damn the violins and BenE. King on lead what a song we will be lovers when the music ends
The Drifters, class 24, are playing all over the UK and are excellent
My God, if only we could go back.
another one of my fav's (besides all his songs ^.^ ) would be "Stand by me" OMG love these songs :( wish he still had live shows i would love to see him
Favourite Drifters song
On this day in 1959 {December 3rd} the Drifters performed "Dance With Me" on the Dick Clark ABC-TV weekday-afternoon program, 'American Bandstand'...
At the time "Dance With Me" was at #15 on Billboard's Top 100, that would also be it's peak position on the chart, and it also spent fifteen weeks on the Top 100...
It peaked at #2 {for 2 weeks} on November 9th, 1959 on Billboard's Hot R&B Sides chart, the two records that kept it out of the top spot were "So Many Ways" by Brook Benton and "Don't You Know" by Della Reese...
And on the same 'Bandstand' show they also performed "Dance With Me's" B-side, "(If You Cry)True Love, True Love", it reached #5 on the Hot R&B Sides chart and #33 on the Top 100 chart...
Between 1954 and 1966 the NYC-based group had thirty-six Top 100 records; five made the Top 10 with one reaching #1, "Save the Last Dance for Me", for three weeks in 1960...
Besides "Save the Last Dance for Me", their four other Top 10 records were "There Goes My Baby" {#2* for 1 week in 1959}, "Up On The Roof" {#5 in 1963}, "On Broadway" {#9 in 1963}, and "Under The Boardwalk" {#4 in 1964}...
* The week "There Goes My Baby" peaked at #2, the #1 record for that week was "A Big Hunk O Love" by Elvis...
So sad to see another legend as left our planet such a shame the best gone no match to replace ben e king r i p
May you r.i.p mr king thanks for the music
Me and my sister used to dance to this song when we were really young..Memories
Love this song always
A Classic , I saw them at a Murray the K Show in NYC in the 60's . It seemed every time they came back for a show they had a new lead singer ???
Simply brilliant!!💗The Best.Bar None!!x
Brilliant song x
💕👣 love this
CLASSIC! The Driters and Ben E King, Leiber&Stoller, Atlantic-Atco Records Ertegun&Abramson, NY's Premiere R&B Record Company, The Sound of NY 1959, Highbridge the Bronx 4th grade
"maybe we'll be lovers when the music ends" as a kid I used to dream of love to come to such lyrics
Beautiful song!
Beautiful ❤ Melody
It was a great teenager movie "there goes my baby "
I haven't heard this in years.Great tune.We used to hear it when it came out.Does that make me old?
Brilliant stuff just brilliant