The Platters
Wikimp3 information about the music of The Platters. On our website we have 70 albums and 70 collections of artist The Platters. You can find useful information and download songs of this artist. We also know that The Platters represents Soul genres.
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: Gli anni 50: il meglio (100 HIts)
Genre: Pop
Title: Greatest Hits of 1960, Vol. 2
Genre: Pop
Title: Heritage of the Blues 1956, Vol. 2
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Title: Crooners & Divas - Greatest Moments
Genre: Jazz
Title: Popcorn Shakers 9
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: The Christmas Album Vol 2.
Genre:
Title: More Doo Wop Days
Genre: Jazz
Title: Britain's Greatest Hits 1956
Genre: Pop
Title: Great Memories, Vol. 1
Genre: Pop
Title: Great Groups, The Lost Masters (Volume 1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: 50 R&B Hits (Re-Recorded / Remastered Versions)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Friendly Persuasion, Vol. 4
Genre: Pop
Title: Pop Hits Of The 50's Vol 2
Genre: Pop
Title: Doo Wop is Hot - Volume 2
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock
Title: Happy Sounds Of The '60s (Re-Recorded Versions)
Genre: Rock
Title: Top Rock Collection, Vol. 6
Genre: Rock
Title: Soda Shop: Hits Of The 50s
Genre: Pop
Title: Soul Christmas (Re-recorded Version)
Genre:
Title: The Most Beautiful Wedding Music Ever
Genre:
Title: Be My Valentine
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Old Juniors Vol.2
Genre: Pop
Title: Rockabilly Blues Christmas
Genre:
Title: Pop Parade, Vol. 4
Genre: Pop
Title: Vintage Music And The Vocal Groups
Genre: Jazz
Title: I'm In The Mood For Love: American Classics
Genre:
Title: Simply Love: Classic Love Songs
Genre: Pop
Title: Radio Vintage hits USA No. 3
Genre: Pop
Title: Soundtracks-Rock
Genre: Rock
Title: Adorable Doowop
Genre:
Title: Baladas Inolvidables
Genre: Pop
Title: Radio Vintage hits USA No. 4
Genre: Pop
Title: Beat Generation
Title: Dancing Around the World, Vol. 2
Genre: Pop
Title: The Songs That Made Them Famous (Re-Recorded Versions)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock
Title: Jazzin' Xmas
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Best of Movie Themes
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: 100 Villancicos Irreemplazables
Genre:
Title: Jubilee Favourites
Genre: Pop
Title: Happy Days Era (Re-Recorded Versions)
Genre: Pop
Title: Top of the Charts Vol 1
Genre: Pop
Title: #1 Hits of the '50s, '60s & '70s (Re-Recorded Version)
Genre: Rock
Title: Radio Vintage hits USA No. 1
Genre: Rock
Title: Hit Parade Classics Vol 3
Genre: Pop
Title: Doo Wop Gold Ballads
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Christmas Swing Dance Party
Genre:
Title: Relaxing Popular Music, Vol. 1
Genre: Pop
Title: Radio Hits Vol 2
Genre: Pop
Title: Above & Beyond - Rock, Pop And Reggae Heaven Vol. 4
Genre: Pop
Title: Traditional Pop, Vol. 4
Genre: Pop
Title: Highway Of Hits Volume 1
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Jubilee Pop Anthems
Genre: Pop
Title: You Made Me Cry
Genre: Rock
Title: Mambo Classics
Title: The History of Rhythm and Blues, Vol. 2
Genre: World Music
Title: Big Hits & Highlights of 1954, Vol. 9
Genre: Pop
Title: American R'n'B No. 1 Hits, Vol. 6
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Summer Classics
Genre: Pop
Title: Popular Songs Vol 1
Genre: Pop
Title: Honoring the Past - Memorial Day
Genre: Jazz
Title: Los 20 Mejores Temas De Los 60'S
Genre: Pop
Title: Xmas Choir
Genre:
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