The Platters
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Biography
[Edit]The Platters started out as a Los Angeles-based doo wop group with little identity of their own to make them stand out from the pack. They made their first records for Federal, a subsidiary of Cincinnati's King Records. These early sides don't sound anything like the better-known sides that would eventually emerge from this group, instead merely aping the current R&B trends and styles of the day. What changed their fortunes can be reduced down to one very important name: their mentor, manager, producer, songwriter, and vocal coach, Buck Ram. Ram took what many would say were a run-of-the-mill R&B doo wop vocal group and turned them into stars and one of the most enduring and lucrative groups of all time. By 1954, Ram was already running a talent agency in Los Angeles, writing and arranging for publisher Mills Music, managing the Three Suns — a pop group with some success — and working with his protégés, the Penguins. The Platters seemed like a good addition to his stable.
After getting them out of their Federal contract, Ram placed them with the burgeoning national independent label Mercury Records (at the same time he brought over the Penguins following their success with "Earth Angel"), automatically getting them into pop markets through the label's distribution contacts alone. Then Ram started honing in on the group's strengths and weaknesses. The first thing he did was put the lead vocal status squarely on the shoulders of lead tenor Tony Williams. Williams' emoting power was turned up full blast with the group (now augmented with Zola Taylor from Shirley Gunter & the Queens) working as very well-structured vocal support framing his every note. With Ram's pop songwriting classics as their musical palette, the group quickly became a pop and R&B success, eventually earning the distinction of being the first black act of the era to top the pop charts. Considered the most romantic of all the doo wop groups (that is, the ultimate in "make out music"), hit after hit came tumbling forth in a seemingly effortless manner: "Only You," "The Great Pretender," "My Prayer," "Twilight Time," "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," "Harbor Lights," all of them establishing the Platters as the classiest of all.
Williams struck out on his own in 1961 and, by the decade's end, the group had disbanded with various members starting up their own version of the Platters. This bit of franchising now extends into the present day, with an estimated 125 sanctioned versions of "the original Platters" out on the oldies show circuit.
Title: Soul Masters: The Platters (Re-Recorded Versions)
Artist: The Platters
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Four Platters And One Lovely Dish (CD6)
Artist: The Platters
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock & Roll
Title: Golden Legends: The Platters (Re-Recorded Versions)
Artist: The Platters
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Four Platters And One Lovely Dish (CD1)
Artist: The Platters
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock & Roll
Title: Four Platters And One Lovely Dish (CD8)
Artist: The Platters
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock & Roll
Collections
Title: CRAZY LOVE. 20 ΑΓΑΠΗΜΕΝΑ SLOW
Genre: Pop
Title: Best Of USA 100 Hits (CD1)
Title: Best Of USA 100 Hits (CD2)
Title: Top 30 - Just The Best
Title: Ram Cafe 9 (CD1)
Title: Songs For You: 38 Songs Chosen Specially For You (CD1)
Genre: Trip Hop, Hip Hop/R&B, Country, Pop
Title: The Doo Wop Box Vol. 3 (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rock & Roll
Title: Retro Disco Party
Title: Silver Linings Songs Of A Lifetime (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Pop
Title: Crooners, The Very Best Of
Title: Twisted Wheel Forever
Title: Kent's Cellar Of Soul, Vol. 3
Genre: Soul
Title: The Greatest Love Songs Of The 50s (CD1)
Genre: Pop
Title: The Greatest Love Songs Of The 50s (CD2)
Genre: Pop
Title: The Greatest Love Songs Of The 50s (CD4)
Genre: Pop
Title: The Greatest Love Songs Of The 50s (CD5)
Genre: Pop
Title: Felix Hernandez Presents Rhythm Revue (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B
Title: 100 Greatest Hits Of The 50s & 60s (CD1)
Genre: Jazz
Title: 100 Greatest Hits Of The 50s & 60s (CD2)
Genre: Jazz
Title: 100 Hits: 50s
Title: Simply Rock'n'Roll
Genre: Rock & Roll
Title: Girls Gone Rockin': 75 Fabulous Femme Rockers
Genre: Rock, Rock & Roll, Rockabilly
Title: The R&B Years 1955: Vol. 2 (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B
Title: King Records R&B Box Set (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Jazz, Rock
Title: 60 Top Hits (Heartbreaker) (CD1)
Genre: Pop
Title: Amercian Heartbeat The '50s (CD1)
Genre: Rock & Roll, Rockabilly, Pop
Title: Simply Doo Wop (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B
Title: Simply Doo Wop (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B
Title: Simply Doo Wop (CD3)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B
Title: Simply Doo Wop (CD4)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B
Title: 300 Hits: Love Songs (CD05 - Happy Mothers Day)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Rock, Country, Rockabilly, Western Swing, Pop, Contemporary Folk
Title: Rock'n'Roll 50 - 60’s (CD1)
Genre: Rock & Roll
Title: Rock'n'Roll 50 - 60’s (CD2)
Genre: Rock & Roll
Title: Heartbreaking Ballads, Vol. 1
Genre: Pop Rock
Title: Heartbreaking Ballads Vol. 3
Genre: Pop Rock
Title: Heartbreaking Ballads, Vol. 6
Genre: Pop Rock
Title: The Rock 'N' Roll Era 1955-1956
Genre: Rock, Rock & Roll
Title: The Rock'N'Roll Era 1958
Genre: Rock, Rock & Roll
Title: The Rock'N'Roll Era 1959
Genre: Rock, Rock & Roll
Title: The Rock 'N' Roll Era 1960
Genre: Rock, Rock & Roll
Title: The Rock 'N' Roll Era The Last Dance
Genre: Rock, Rock & Roll
Title: 100 Villancicos Imprescindibles (CD2)
Genre: Pop
Title: 100 Villancicos Maravillosos (CD2)
Genre: Pop
Title: Villancicos Originales
Genre: Pop
Title: 50's No. 1's (CD2)
Genre: World Music, Country, Folk
Featuring albums
Title: R & B Soul Christmas Party (Re-Recording) [feat. Various Artists]
Artist: The Drifters
Genre:
Title: American Graffiti (Soundtrack (Highlights))
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Best of Rock 'n' Roll & Jukebox Music: 100 Greatest Hits from the 50s & 60s
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Rock
Title: 8 Best of 50s Rock N' Roll (Original Artist Re-Recordings)
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Pop
Title: Malt Shop Favorites (New Stereo Recordings by the Original Artists)
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Rock
Title: Best of Rock 'n' Roll Music - 100 Greatest Originals Hits from the 50s & 60s
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Rock
Title: 22 Great American Classics
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack, Vocal & Symphonic
Title: Xmas Classics - Essential Christmas Songs
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Traditional Pop Music
Title: James Brown Presents A Soulful Christmas
Artist: James Brown
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Pop, Traditional Pop Music, Theatre/Soundtrack, Funk, Vocal & Symphonic
Title: Hearts in Atlantis - Motion Picture Soundtrack (Edited Version)
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Classical
Title: Broken Hearted - A Collection of the World's Best Heartbreakers
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap