The Drifters' first single recorded 60 years ago

[iefje]

It's exactly 60 years ago that The Drifters recorded their very first tracks as a group for their first single. The group themselves have condemned it and said it wasn't released, but it escaped! I think the two tracks are quite charming and a good first effort.

[JimN]

Well remembered.

Exactly one month later, 9th February, The Drifters recorded the "Cliff!" album at Abbey Road, with their own three tracks, Driftin', Jet Black and Be Bop A Lula.

However, on 24th March 1959, the group recorded two tracks which have never been released: C'Mon and She's Gone (presumably both vocals, and the latter re-recorded by Cliff and The Shadows in March 1960 for the "Me And My Shadows" LP).