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The Platters - Smoke Get In Your Eyes Sub Español e Ingles HD
The Platters - Smoke Get In Your Eyes Sub Español e Ingles HD 121gamers 3 Views • 3 years ago

The Platters (formado en Los Ángeles en 1953 y disuelto a finales de los años 1960) fue grupo musical estadounidense de rhythm and blues y Doo wop compuesto por cinco cantantes negros (cuatro hombres y una mujer).

The Platters iniciaron su carrera artística en Los Ángeles como grupo de doo wop, aunque con una identidad muy débil como para hacerlos destacar sobre el resto. Sus primeras grabaciones las hicieron para Federal, un sello subsidiario de King Records de Cincinnati. Estas primera grabaciones no se parecen en nada a las que más tarde les harían famosos, en tanto que simplemente imitaban las corrientes y estilos del momento, sobre todo las vinculadas al R&B. Lo que cambió su suerte fue la aparición del que sería su mentor, mánager, productor, escritor y profesor vocal, Buck Ram. Ram convirtió lo que no era más que un convencional grupo vocal de R&B y doo wop, en un conjunto de estrellas y uno de los más duraderos y lucrativos grupos musicales de todos los tiempos. Hacia 1954, Ram tenía ya una agencia de talentos en Los Ángeles, escribiendo y arreglando para la editorial Mills Music, dirigiendo la carrera de The Three Suns -un grupo pop con bastante éxito- y trabajando con sus protegidos, The Penguins. En principio, The Platters parecían ser una buena adición a este listado.

Tras desvincularlos de Federal, Ram los situó dentro del emergente sello nacional independiente Mercury Records, colocándolos automáticamente en el mercado pop a través los exclusivos contactos de distribución de la compañía. Entonces, Ram comenzó a trabajar sobre las potencialidades y debilidades del grupo. Los primero que hizo fue colocar el peso vocal del grupo sobre los hombros de Tony Williams, cuya voz era próxima a la de un tenor. El poder emocional de Williams fue completado con un grupo (aumentado en aquel momento con Zola Taylor) que trabajaba envolviendo cada una de sus notas con un bien estructurado soporte vocal. Con las letras pop clásicas de Ram y la paleta sonora de los cantantes, el grupo se convirtió rápidamente en un éxito dentro del pop y del R&B, consiguiendo ser el primer grupo negro de la época en situarse en los primeros puestos de las listas de éxitos. Considerado el más romántico de todos los conjuntos doo wop, éxito tras éxito fueron cayendo de forma aparentemente fácil: "Only you", "The great pretender", "My prayer", "Twilight time", "Smoke gets in your eyes", "Harbor lights".

Williams abandonó el grupo en 1961 y, hacia finales de la década, el grupo se había disuelto debido al deseo de proseguir con distintas versiones del conjunto por parte de sus integrantes. Hasta 125 versiones de The Platters se pueden contabilizar hasta la fecha.

The Platters - The Great Pretender (1959) 4K
The Platters - The Great Pretender (1959) 4K 121gamers 3 Views • 3 years ago

The Platters performing "The Great Pretender", released originally in 1959.

It reached #1 in the Netherlands, #1 on the US Billboard Top 100, #1 on the US R&B Records, and #5 on the UK Singles Charts.

This style of music, characterized by its harmonies and catchy melodies, was not called "doo-wop" at the time; it was categorized as rock or R&B. The term "doo-wop" gained popularity around 1970 when oldies DJ Gus Gossert started using it on his WCBS radio show in New York City.

The song tells the story of a man who conceals his heartbreak by pretending to be happy, having mastered the art of smiling through his pain. It was written by The Platters' producer, Buck Ram, who needed a follow-up to the group's first hit, "Only You." Ram quickly composed the lyrics in the washroom of the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, where the group was performing.

"The Great Pretender" was featured in the movie "Rock Around the Clock" and on the "American Graffiti" soundtrack, alongside two other Platters' songs, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and "Only You." The harmonizing female voice on the track belongs to Zola Taylor, the only female member of The Platters. Taylor was also the second wife of Frankie Lymon and was portrayed by Halle Berry in the movie "Why Do Fools Fall in Love." She passed away in 2007 at the age of 69. In 1987, Freddie Mercury revived "The Great Pretender" with his version of the song, which reached #4 in the UK.

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The Platters - Only You (And You Alone) (Original Footage HD)
The Platters - Only You (And You Alone) (Original Footage HD) 121gamers 2 Views • 3 years ago

(P)(C) Mercury Records (USA) 1955

Only You (And You Alone), más conocida como Only You es una canción estadounidense compuesta en 1955 por Buck Ram y Ande Rand. La versión original es de The Platters, cantando como voz principal Tony Williams.

"Only You (And You Alone)" (often shortened to "Only You") is a pop song composed by Buck Ram.[1] It was recorded most successfully by The Platters, with lead vocals by Tony Williams, in 1955.
The first recording of the song on Federal Records, also by Williams and The Platters, turned out poorly in 1954, but after a re-recording, the song scored a major hit when it was released on July 3, 1955. Platters bass singer Herb Reed later recalled how the group hit upon its successful version: "We tried it so many times, and it was terrible. One time we were rehearsing in the car... and the car jerked. Tony went 'O-oHHHH-nly you.' We laughed at first, but when he sang that song — that was the sign we had hit on something."[2]
The song held strong in the number-one position on the U.S. R & B charts for seven weeks, and hit number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[3] It remained there for 30 weeks, beating out a rival cover version by a white band called The Hilltoppers. When the Platters track, "The Great Pretender" (which eventually surpassed the success of "Only You"), was released in the UK as Europe's first introduction to The Platters, "Only You" was included on the flipside. In the 1956 film Rock Around the Clock, The Platters participated with both songs "Only You" and "The Great Pretender".

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