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The Platters

Early R&B
Soul music
Gospel
With their classic mid-1950s hits Only You, The Great Pretender and My Prayer - blending R&B, doo-wop and gospel with a modern pop production style - The Platters were effectively forerunners of rock'n'roll. Originally formed in Los Angeles in 1953, they toured regularly with a variety of different line-ups without managing to come up with a hit record until Only You - a song their manager/arranger/producer Buck Ram initially wrote with the Ink Spots in mind - became a huge hit in 1955. The follow-up, the soaring The Great Pretender (supposedly written by Ram in the washroom of a...
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My Prayer
My PrayerThe Platters

The Platters

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Ebb Tide
Ebb TideThe Platters

Reflections

My Dream
My DreamThe Platters

Encores

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Enchanted
EnchantedThe Platters

Universal Masters Collection

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The Glory of Love
The Glory of LoveThe Platters

The Platters

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Goodnight Sweetheart, It's Time to Go
Goodnight Sweetheart, It's Time to GoThe Platters

The Magic Touch : An Anthology

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