This Magic Moment

Album: The Drifters Greatest Hits (1960)
Charted: 16
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: Jerome Pomus, Mortimer Shuman
    Publisher: Peermusic Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Comments: 3

  • Cm Leonard from N.j.Love the music of Ben E. King & the drifters. Music industry was set up to enrich song writers; vocalist seldom if ever get their due.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn December 22nd 1968, "This Magic Moment" by Jay and the Americans entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and on March 2nd, 1969 it peaked at #6 (for 1 week) and spent 14 weeks on the Top 100...
    Eight years earlier on February 16th, 1960; the original version by the Drifters entered the Top 100, it peaked at #16 on March 28th, 1960 and stayed on the Top 100 for 11 weeks...
    In 1989 Rick James combined it with another Drifters hit,"Dance With Me", his version reached #74 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart...
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyGreat song; can't believe it only reached No. 16 on the Top 100. My 2nd favorite Drifter's record, the 1st being "There Goes My Baby". I remember when I first heard "There Goes My Baby" I was completely bowled over by the violins playing it the background, who would have have believed it, violins on a pop record!!!!
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