Old music: The Drifters – Save the Last Dance for Me

Put Pomus and Shuman together with Lieber and Stoller. Add the Drifters. And you end up with a classicSave the Last Dance for Me by the Drifters was a joint enterprise by the two greatest songwriting teams of the early rock era: it was written by Pomus and Shuman, and produced by Lieber and Stoller. No wonder it was a massive hit in 1960 in the US and UK.And it certainly didn't hurt having Ben E King – later most famous for Stand By Me – singing lead. The Drifters had already used strings on...

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