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 BIOGRAPHY:
A member of The Rock &
Roll Hall of Fame, the last "original" brings you hits like 'Under The
Boardwalk' and 'Save The Last Dance'!
ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAMER
(1988) Charlie Thomas was a member of a group known as the Five Crowns
in 1958 along with Ben Earl Nelson (later known as Ben E. King), who were
being managed by Lover Patterson.
While the The Five Crowns
met with little commercial success, they enjoyed local popularity and that
is why they were on the bill at the Apollo Theater in New York City in
1958 when George Treadwell fired his famous group, The Drifters. It was
Charlie Thomas' voice that Treadwell heard and hastily recruited the Crowns
to become the new Drifters.
Lover Patterson once said
that Charlie Thomas' voice was one that the world would enjoy forever,
and he was right! The new Drifters first release in 1959 was a song called
"There Goes My Baby". This was the beginning of what is generally acknowledged
as the Golden Years of the Drifters.
In 1988, the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame inducted the Drifters; naming members Clyde McPhatter, Bill
Pinkney, Gerhart Thrasher, Johnny Moore, Ben E. King, Charlie Thomas, and
Rudy Lewis at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. Bill Pinkney, Charlie
Thomas, and Johnny Moore (posthumously) received Pioneer Awards from the
Rhythm & Blues Foundation in 1999. |
