THE DRIFTERS are truly unique in today's world of coming and going popular music groups.

Following their 40-year-long history is like reading a history of contemporary popular music. From their very first release on Atlantic Records, "There Goes My Baby" (which was also the first rhythm and blues record to incorporate violins), they were bound for stardom – with a 2 million seller under their belts in their first try. Over the next ten years there were 29 additional chart records (according to Billboard) accounting for nearly 200,000,000 sales of singles and over 80 million albums in the United States alone. In fact (source: The Book of Lists), only the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Bee Gees and Michael Jackson have sold more records over a more sustained period of time.

They have appeared in every major night club and concert hall in the United States from Las Vegas to 10 sold out appearances at New York's Madison Square Garden. They have literally toured the entire world including a recent one month tour to the Far East and highlighted by being chosen to represent the United States for the great Bicentennial tour of Russia in 1977.

They have even appeared at the White House for President Bush and at the home of the widow of the late Robert Kennedy in a concert for Ted Kennedy and friends. Their television appearances have numbered nearly 100 over the years., highlighted by being the only group to make two appearances on "Roots of Rock and Roll," the Twentieth Century Fox syndicated series.

Today, as right from the beginning, the group includes original members. The current act blends a tasteful mixture of their million sellers with contemporary standards, many in medley form and several lifted from their hot new Columbia album, "Too Hot," which promises to soar up the hit charts - all presented within the context of THE DRIFTERS' famous patented choreography.

THE HIT SONGS OF THE DRIFTERS