Music : The Best of the Platters

Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0731455173123
Label: Commercial Marketing
Manufacturer: Commercial Marketing
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Commercial Marketing
Release Date: April 26, 1999
Running Time: 48 minutes
Studio: Commercial Marketing
Sales Rank: 9146

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Disc 1:

1. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
2. The Great Pretender
3. My Dream
4. Twilight Time
5. You'll Never Know
6. (You've Got) The Magic Touch
7. One In A Million
8. Enchanted
9. I'm Sorry
10. Only You (And You Alone)
11. Harbor Lights
12. Red Sails In The Sunset
13. I Wish
14. Sleepy Lagoon
15. Ebb Tide
16. Heaven On Earth
17. Remember When
18. My Prayer

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Rating: - A Satisfied Customer
I bought this at the request of a friend of my mum's. She lives in a nursing home and has taken an interest in revisiting music of her youth. I've bought several CDs on her behalf but as she and my mum listened to this one she said "It's the best yet". It brought back memories of dancing with her husband when they were both young. She said to mum, "after you go I listen to it again and have a good cry." Her husband had died several years ago.

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Rating: - You'll Never Know (Unless You Listen)
Hmmm...yes, original Platters, great. But if you're buying this for their hit "You'll Never Never Know" - don't. Ignorance and/or carelessness prevail. What you get is their version of the Warren/Gordon standard "You'll Never Know" ("...you'll never know just how much I love you, you'll never know just how much I care," etc). In fairness, it does say "You'll Never Know" on the tracklist. But it's credited to the writers of "You'll Never Never Know" (who cop the royalties), so the compiler evidently ... Read More

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Rating: - Best of the best of...
This wonderful "cheap" Spectrum compilation of the authentic 50's
Platters is a real treasure. The absolutely best DooWop group of all
times (with the best black voice ever of Tony Williams) can be found
on this CD with unbeatable quality. More than half of the Platters'
Greatest are in full stereo although we're still in the fifties!!
All the charting hits are there. This is a "must" for all record
collectors!!

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Rating: - The Original Recordings
These are the original recordings with the great Tony Williams on lead vocals, the cd bears a Spectrum logo which is owned by Universal Music which in turn owns the Platters "Mercury" recordings fron 1955-1961 which is ther classic period, a great cheep cd with all the major recordings, agreat listen from start to end clocking in at 47 mins.

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Rating: - First black vocal group to become major stars
In the fifties, it was hard for black singers to sell music to white record buyers, but the Platters managed to do just that, thus helping to blaze the trail for the many others that followed. Some of their songs were covers of songs from the thirties and forties, suitably updated for the fifties. Some people mistakenly think of songs such as Smoke gets in your eyes and Harbor lights (both dating from the thirties) as being Platters originals - I was among them for many years.

The Platters were ... Read More

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