"Hi Mark – it was great to meet you last week and can not thank you enough for your hard work…The [Linwood Peel's Tribute to the] Drifters were amazing and you could tell the audience LOVED them! Thank you again and I hope to work with you again in the future."
--Louie Anchondo, The Actors' Fund, 2007

The Drifters are truly unique in today's world of coming and going popular music groups. Following their long career is like reading a history of contemporary popular music. From their very first release on Atlantic records, "There goes My Baby", they were bound for stardom with a 2 million seller under their belts in their first try. Over the next 10 years there were 29 additional chart records (source: Billboard) accounting for nearly 20 million sales of singles and over 8 million albums in the US alone. In fact (source: The Book of Lists), only the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Bee Gees 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 one month tour to the Far East and were chosen to represent the United States for the great Bicentennial Tour of Russia.

Mark Sonder Productions Presents A Tribute to The Drifters performw the greatest Drifter hits of all time.  

Although this Tribute Show has nothing to do with The Drifters or with the Elsbeary Hobbs Drifers, our lead, Linwood Peel, was the lead for The Drifters and the Elsbeary Hobbs Drifters since 1992.

the Drifters during their greatest years as a touring group performing for four presidents, the US Constitution’s 200th Anniversary Good Will tour of Russia, on all three national network TV stations, and throughout the world.  Hobbs also led the Drifters when they sold out seven shows at Madison Square Garden over a three year period and when they headlined Dick Clark’s 20th Anniversary of Rock & Roll 42 City Tour.

Today, Linwood has united his former group members as Linwood Peel's Tribute to The Drifters to commemorate much of the great material to which is still known, sung and covered world-wide.  Not only does the group perform many of the Drifters tunes that they were noted for, but abridged potpourri of standard rock songs.

One important reason for The Drifters success is their intimate relationship with the greatest songwriters of their time and the great Drifters hits were written by such song writing legends as Burt Bacharach, Carole King, Doc Pomus, and Lieber & Stoller.

Linwood Peel's Tribute to The Drifters blends a tasteful mixture of the Drifters million sellers with contemporary standards, many in medley form

The Drifters Million Sellers
There Goes My Baby
This Magic Moment
Save the Last Dance For Me
Up On the Roof
On Broadway
Under the Boardwalk
Dance With Me
True Love, True Love
I Count the Tears

Additional Drifters Hits (reached the Top 10)
Lonely Winds
Some Kind of Wonderful
Please Stay
Sweets for My Sweet
Room Full of Tears
When My Little Girl is Smiling
Stranger on the Shore
I'll Take You Home
I've Got Sand in My Shoes
Spanish Harlem

Listen to Linwood Peel's Tribute to The Drifters:
Under The Boardwalk
This Magic Moment
Up on the Roof
Shout!
Stand By Me

Photo: Linwood Peel doing what he does best!

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