Album of the Day

If The Drifters' UNDER THE BOARDWALK plays like a best-of, there's good reason – the 1964 album had been issued several months earlier as OUR BIGGEST HITS when the success of “Under The Boardwalk” prompted Atlantic to re-release it with that single included and a new title. Rudy Lewis and Johnny Moore (who passed away on this day in 1998) handle the vocal duties on these dozen tracks, which also include such favorites as “On Broadway,” “Up on the Roof” and “If You Don't Come Back.” With New York's top songwriters and producer Bert Burns behind the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, UNDER THE BOARDWALK shows The Drifters remained masters of pop-soul well into the 1960s.