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: Choice Soul Cuts: The Platters (Re-Recorded Versions)
Artist: The Platters
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Four Platters And One Lovely Dish (CD4)
Artist: The Platters
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock & Roll
Title: Soul Masters: The Platters (Re-Recorded Versions)
Artist: The Platters
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Collections
Title: 100 Hits Vintage Nº2 / 100 Hits Vintage N?2
Genre: Pop
Title: Doo Wop is Hot - Volume 3
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock
Title: 24 Everlasting Golden Oldies, Vol. 1
Genre: Rock
Title: Doo Wop Classics Vol. 8
Genre: Pop
Title: The Doo Wop Collection (Re-Recorded Version)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Greatest Big Hits of 1962, Vol. 49
Genre: Pop
Title: The Boys of Pop, Vol. 3
Genre: Pop
Title: Sixties Memories 3
Genre: Rock, Rock & Roll
Title: Big Hits & Highlights of 1957, Vol. 5
Genre: Pop
Title: Midnight Magic
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: 100 Hits Vintage Nº5 / 100 Hits Vintage N?5
Genre: Pop
Title: The Greatest Hits Of 1958, Vol. 1
Genre: Pop
Title: Big Hits & Highlights of 1958, Vol. 1
Genre: Pop
Title: Love Songs We Used to Share
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock
Title: Doo Wop Golden Oldies Vol 2
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Doo Wop Essential Classics, Vol. 1
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: The 50 Best Christmas Songs Ever
Genre:
Title: Christmas Superstars
Genre: Jazz
Title: Don't Ever Love Me Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Going Back to My Roots and More Million Sellers
Genre: Pop
Title: Hits Revival
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: The Best Soul, Vol. 1
Genre: Blues
Title: Land Of A Bazillion Dances
Genre: Pop
Title: Disco Songs
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Disco
Title: Dance Hall Killers
Genre: Rock
Title: The Ultimate Christmas Collection
Genre: Folk
Title: Las Canciones de Nuestra Vida
Genre: Latin
Title: R&B Collection, Vol. 1
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Tear Jerkers, Vol.2
Genre: Pop
Title: Doo Wop Love Songs (Re-Recorded Versions)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Rhythm & Blues 1952-1959 - Music Sampler, Vol. 2
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Title: Doo Wop Juke Box, Vol. 12
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Golden Oldies Vol 3
Genre: Pop
Title: Christmas to Remember
Genre:
Title: Music & Highlights: Best of Retro
Genre: Pop
Title: The Hits of 1955, Vol. 2
Genre: Pop
Title: Popcorn Jet Setters Vol. 5
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: The 1959 British Hit Parade the B Sides, Pt. 1, Vol. 1
Genre: Pop
Title: A Rock & Roll Era
Genre: Rock
Title: Big Hits & Highlights of 1956, Vol. 10
Genre: Pop
Title: Doo Wop Sings the Great American Song Book
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Heritage of the Blues of 1956, Vol. 1
Genre: Pop
Title: Greatest Big Hits of 1962, Vol. 48
Genre: Pop
Title: 150 Rock 'N' Roll Classics (Re-Recorded Versions)
Genre: Rock, Rock & Roll
Title: Doo Wop Days
Genre: Jazz
Title: Wedding Love Super Hits
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Wedding Love Songs
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: The Greatest Soul Hits of All Time Vol. 3
Genre: Electronica, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Pop Juke Box Hits Vol 2
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Dance the Night Away, Vol. 5
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Pure Love Moods Vol. 1
Genre: Pop
Title: On the Dancefloor, Vol. 4
Genre: Pop
Title: Rock and Roll Baby and More Oldies
Genre: Pop
Title: Do Doo-Wop, Vol. 3
Genre: Pop
Title: Almost Big Hits of 1962, Vol. 3 (Original Recordings)
Genre: Pop
Title: Almost Big Hits of 1962, Vol. 1
Genre: Pop
Title: Love Letters Straight from Your Heart
Genre: Pop
Title: Doo Wop For Lovers
Genre: Alternative
Title: America's Greatest Hits 1960 Vol. 1
Genre: Pop
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