The Very Best of The Platters

The Platters | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: UNIVERSAL
• ASIN: B000001DTH
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #228,698 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

More Ink Spots and Johnny Mathis--they actually covered the former's "If I Didn't Care" and "My Prayer"--than doo-woppers, the Platters were one of the biggest crossover acts of the '50s thanks to their lush romanticism. Lead voice Tony Williams's sense of drama lent the group some gospel-tinged excitement, so that this set of a dozen top 30 singles works both as soft R&B and make-out music. --Rickey Wright

Product Description

All of their Top 20 hits on one low-priced disc! The Great Pretender; My Prayer; (You've Got) The Magic Touch; Twilight Time; Only You (and You Alone); Smoke Gets in Your Eyes , and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Hits From One Of Music's Transitional Harmony Groups, February 9, 2000

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Anthony G Pizza "trivialtony" (FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Very Best of The Platters (Audio CD)

The Platters (represented by 12 of their greatest hits of the 1950s) stood a middle ground between traditional vocal groups such as the Ames Brothers and the doo-wop sounds to follow. Happily (for us, anyway), they were accepted by the new teenage culture and many of their parents.

The reason is in the quality of songs presented here. Hard to believe Jerome Kern's estate bristled over their rendition of "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes"; distinctive lead singer Tony Williams captures the lyric perfectly, walking through a fog of strings and piano with perfect pitch and diction until a glass-shattering finale. The originals, many co-written by their manager, Buck Ram, have themselves become standards: "Twilight Time," "My Prayer," "Only You" (later covered by Travis Tritt and Ringo Starr), "The Great Pretender" (later satirized by rock n' roll grump Stan Freberg). Overall, regardless of which 50s musical style you prefer, anyone loving traditional group harmony will enjoy this set.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "The Very Best of The Platters" says if perfectly, November 26, 1999

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Peter Glandon (Ottawa, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Very Best of The Platters (Audio CD)

The Platters typify 50's music and this cd is exactly what you would expect, and more. Buy it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All Original Hits, July 14, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Very Best of The Platters (Audio CD)

Nothing rerecorded here, and all big pop hits. A good buy for those who seek only the cream of the crop, although a few well-known hits are absent.