Platters - The Platters - All-Time Greatest Hits
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Artist: PlattersEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2004-04-13
Music Label: Island / Mercury
Soundtracks:
- Only You (And You Alone)
- The Great Pretender
- (You've Got) The Magic Touch
- My Prayer
- Heaven on Earth
- You'll Never, Never Know
- It Isn't Right
- On My Word of Honor
- One in a Million
- I'm Sorry
- He's Mine
- My Dream
- Twilight Time
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- Enchanted
- Harbor Lights
- I Love You 1,000 Times
- With This Ring
Music reviews of The Platters - All-Time Greatest Hits
Music Review: excellent Platter
Rating: 4 Stars
The Platters is one of those groups with a very long career, spanning decades and substantial personnel changes. And apparently, with lead singer changes, many of their hit songs have been recorded in at least two versions. Add to that recording contract changes, and it's possible to have 4 and 5 versions of certain "Hit" songs.
This particular Hits package is for the most part, all the songs that I'm familiar with - well, when I was a kid, along with my favorite rock stations, I'd also listen to the Oldies radio station, which at the time played music from earlier than the mid-sixties. I say for the most part, because one or two songs aren't sizzling with the same searing vocal I'm more familiar with, but they're nevertheless still great performances. And all the songs are very clean, high quality reproductions - I'm not sure what was involved in terms of re-mastering, cleanup, etc., but the result is very pleasing.
When it comes to the Platters, I think the thing to look for (and the best of the best from this vocal group) is the volume and tonal control from the lead, as well as the style of phrasing, which intensifies the drama of the lyric and the flow of the song. I mean, in the age of overindulgent song-bird vocalizing - which to me, adds nothing to the song, but serves only to show off the singer's ability - these type of vocals seem to come from a long forgotten age of care and craft that really cared for the song's theme and concept. As an example, the lilting delivery of the lead on Twilight Time, along with the volume adjustment for dramatic emphasis, appears almost effortlessly sung, but is one of the vocal performances for the ages - just golden.
Highlights on this Hits collection are: Only You, The Great Pretender, (You've Got) the Magic Touch, My Prayer, I'm Sorry, Twilight Time, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, and I Love You 1,000 Times...all the songs are very good, but for me those are the gems.
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