Charles Thomas had an estimated net worth of $1 million. This is from his career as a musician.
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Thomas was performing with the Five Crowns at the Apollo Theatre in 1958 when George Tredwell fired his group, called The Drifters. Treadwell recruited Fuve Crowns to become the new Drifters.
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The New Drifters’ first release was the 1959 hit, There Goes My Baby. Charlie was the lead singer on two of the group’s top 40 hits, “Sweets for My Sweet” and “When My Little Girl Is Smiling”.
Thomas was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 as a member of the Drifters and was given Pioneer Award by the Rythm and Blues foundation in 1999. On May 21, 2011, in Cranston, Rhode Island, Thomas and The Drifters performed at the Vintage New England Theatre.


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