Drifting Away

Bill Pinkney, the last survivor of the original members of the musical group The Drifters, died at the age of 81. Pinkey and the other founding members were ground up in the Motown machine and were fired and replaced with the singers who recorded the Drifters’ songs you’ve actually heard of, like Fools Fall in Love, Under the Boardwalk, There Goes by Baby and On Broadway.