Platters - The Platters - All-Time Greatest Hits
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Artist: PlattersEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2004-04-13
Music Label: Island / Mercury
Soundtracks:
- Only You (And You Alone)
- The Great Pretender
- (You've Got) The Magic Touch
- My Prayer
- Heaven on Earth
- You'll Never, Never Know
- It Isn't Right
- On My Word of Honor
- One in a Million
- I'm Sorry
- He's Mine
- My Dream
- Twilight Time
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- Enchanted
- Harbor Lights
- I Love You 1,000 Times
- With This Ring
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Free Music Review: First black vocal group to become major stars
Hit: 5 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 those mistaken people for many years.
The Platters were much more successful in America than in Britain, but the few UK hits that they had have left a lasting impression. The great pretender (a 1987 top five UK hit for Freddie Mercury), Smoke gets in your eyes (a 1974 top twenty UK hit for Bryan Ferry) and Only you (a minor UK hit for several artists down the years) have all charted for other artists since the Platters charted with them in the fifties.
This American compilation contains all of their most famous recordings, whether they are originals or covers. Apart from those already mentioned, their other British hits include Twilight time, My prayer, You'll never never know, I'm sorry and It isn't right. The only one not here is Remember when. Of course, there are way too many American hits to include any more than just the essentials on a single CD like this.
If you just want a single CD containing their important tracks, this will do. For a comprehensive Platters hits collection, you should go for the 50-track double CD (The Magic Touch: An Anthology), which contains all the tracks I've mentioned including Remember when.
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