The Platters is an American vocal group. They were one of the most successful vocal groups of the early rock and roll era.
Their distinctive sound was a bridge between the pre-rock Tin Pan Alley tradition and the burgeoning new genre. The act went through several personnel changes, with the most successful incarnation comprising lead tenor Tony Williams , David Lynch , Paul Robi, Herb Reed , and Zola Taylor .
The group had 40 charting singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart between 1955 and 1967, including four no. 1 hits.
The Platters were one of the first African American groups to be accepted as a major chart group and were, for a period of time, the most successful vocal group in the world. [1]
I don't usually open your song articles because all you usually do is post a youtube,
Well, now that I think about it, I'm not surprised that you are familiar with The Platters... (as of course am I . . and of course ausmith),
But probably I was wrong-- there actually might be more folks here who know-- and even like-- their music.
But this sort of thing is very positive-- and many here are so obsessed with starting fights and engaging in emotionally-challenged personal attacks, they have no interest in anything positive.
There's so little interest among most of the members in anything that isn't American politics or religion, that I find it almost a waste of my time to post photo-essays and challenges, and classic movie articles, but I have little else to keep me occupied these days and I don't want to just become atrophied and vegetate into old-age dementia.
The Platters is an American vocal group. They were one of the most successful vocal groups of the early rock and roll era.
Their distinctive sound was a bridge between the pre-rock Tin Pan Alley tradition and the burgeoning new genre. The act went through several personnel changes, with the most successful incarnation comprising lead tenor Tony Williams , David Lynch , Paul Robi, Herb Reed , and Zola Taylor .
The group had 40 charting singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart between 1955 and 1967, including four no. 1 hits.
The Platters were one of the first African American groups to be accepted as a major chart group and were, for a period of time, the most successful vocal group in the world. [1]
(LINK)
The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990 and into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in its inaugural year of 1998.
The Platters were the first rock and roll group to have a Top Ten album in America. [ which? ]
They were also the only act to have three songs included on the American Graffiti soundtrack that fueled an oldies revival already underway in the early to mid-1970s: " Smoke Gets in Your Eyes ", " The Great Pretender ", and " Only You (and You Alone) ".
No one on Newstalkers likes the Platters...
I do!!
Thank goodness-- at least there's 2 of us!
"Smoke get's in your Eyes" is my favorite.
I am also a big Nat King Cole fan. "That Summer" is his best. I got to meet Natalie back in the late '70s at a Kool Jazz Festival.
I don't need the lyric sheet in front of me to do most of the Four Tops songs. I just need to stay on key:)
Nat King Cole's "Too Young" was almost my themesong back in those days.
Not true. They sang great "necking" music back then. I don't usually open your song articles because all you usually do is post a youtube,
Well, now that I think about it, I'm not surprised that you are familiar with The Platters... (as of course am I . . and of course ausmith),
But probably I was wrong-- there actually might be more folks here who know-- and even like-- their music.
But this sort of thing is very positive-- and many here are so obsessed with starting fights and engaging in emotionally-challenged personal attacks, they have no interest in anything positive.
And really-- that is seriously fucked up!
There's so little interest among most of the members in anything that isn't American politics or religion, that I find it almost a waste of my time to post photo-essays and challenges, and classic movie articles, but I have little else to keep me occupied these days and I don't want to just become atrophied and vegetate into old-age dementia.